WHEN TIME LOSES PATIENCE

A touching short documentary. The film encapsulates for posterity the hopeless beauty of an animal market, a soon-to-disappear micro-world from Eastern Europe. The screening will be followed by Q&A with the director Andreea Dumitriu.

Synopsis

A centuries old tradition – animal markets in Romania face an unsure future. The times are changing, industrial agriculture is gradually replacing small-scale farming and the market becomes the scene of the fight for survival of the Romanian traditional farmer. The camera looks around the market in fixed frames, observing farmers in their efforts to sell their animals. The time passes slowly, the buyers are scarce and the cold weather is not helping. People fill up the time with conversations about farming, love, disease and getting old. A film about the last days of a dying culture.