The London International Gypsy Film Festival is an international celebration of Romany culture, community and identity, as represented within the moving image. Over two weeks and through dozens of features, documentaries and short films, an argument will be creatively made against all the stereotypes, prejudice and often overt hostility displayed towards a people over centuries. This festival, the first time that such a body of work has been presented in the UK, seeks instead to present a much more comprehensive and rounded sense of what it means to live as a Romany. Whether the films are made by Gypsy film-makers or others, they share a major quality: all seek a kind of justice, more or less explicitly. And they hope also, of course, to entertain and inspire, to open doors into different ways of being in the world.

The Festival presents several films from Romania, and there are also several films about Romanian Gypsies. Please see below their programme and details.

For more details about the festival please visit: http://www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk/index.php/rcc-events/2006/03/16...

Project:Romania
by Tudor Prisacariu

Project:Romania is an attempt to gain a better understanding of what 2007 Romania represents. It is a reaction to projects like “Romania, always surprising” or “Romania: Fabulospirit”, which present a fake description of the reality Romanians actually live in.

The images here have been taken in May, June and July 2007. The project will continue in the next months. More images from the project here.

Project: Romania was made possible with the support of The Ratiu Family Foundation (http://www.ratiufamilyfoundation.com/).

All images ©Tudor Prisacariu.
For more details on the author visit www.dtailed.com

Romanian Cultural Centre, London (www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk)

Romanian Cultural Institute, London (www.icr-london.co.uk)

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