MAIA - PORTRAIT WITH HANDS
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Status: TIFF Chisinau - free access
Producer: Ana Maria Pîrvan, Alexandra Gulea, Kristina Konrad, Ruxandra Şerban
Production year: 2024
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Documentary
Age restrictions: 12+
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Original title: MAIA - PORTRAIT WITH HANDS
Director: Alexandra Gulea
Screenplay: Alexandra Gulea
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Distribution (actors): Maria Cuzmin, Emilia Dobrin, Vava Ştefănescu
Synopsis:
Maia was born into a semi-nomadic population facing ethnic cleansing. The director, Maia's granddaughter, has produced a vivid visual reconstruction of her journey through the 20th century. Maia's history blends into the larger History.
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About director:
Alexandra GULEA (1970, Romania) studied at the art academy in Bucharest and graduated cum laude from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1997. She continued her education at Munich Film School where she studied documentary film. Her films have been shown internationally including Sarajevo, Rotterdam, and Leipzig. Her short film Flying Sheep (2022) won an award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2022.