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The other identity: the contemporary Rumanian cinema
The theme of identity is dealt with in a special way in the section not participating into the competition, the section devoted to contemporary Rumanian cinema.
The reasons for this are many and they are not only related to film making. Over the last years, after the entrance of Rumania within the European Union and the opening of frontiers, our country has been chosen as a destination country by an increasing number of Rumanians and only a very little number of them has caused serious problems of public order. These problems have been however emphasized by media, which have not suitably dealt with the complexity of this phenomenon and have caused a not always justified social alarm.
Fear, one of the big themes of contemporary society, has taken the place of the necessary ability of understanding; preventive exclusion has taken the place of a reasonable inclusion. In other words, our identity, and any identity is built above all in relation to the other, has competed with itself by reflecting into the other’s identity.
Besides historical social reasons there is another reason, obviously connected to them: Rumanian cinema has produced, over the last ten years, quality films, thus marking a real revival of a cinema which only slowly has got rid of the burden of the past and of that creation stoppage which that dramatic past has represented.
A group of new film makers has come to the international fore, also helped by their participation into important festivals, as representatives of a cultural avant-garde of a country which is searching for its identity after the years of the “unreal” socialism of Ceausescu and the long after revolution period lasted over ten years.
Our look at Rumaninan cinema includes films distributed on the Italian market- which have not been successful- and other films which are known only by the élite of participants into festivals.
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