GIPSY QUEENHUSEYIN TABAK19th March Filmhuis Den Haag 20th March Kriterion The brilliant Romanian-Romani actress Alina Serban and the extremely gifted director Huseyin Tabak have teamed up to bring a powerful, inspiring boxing story to the big screen. The plot follows...
HOW I BECAME A PARTISANVERA LACKOVA18th March Kriterion 19th March Filmhuis Den Haag Cinematic resistance against oblivion. A must-see documentary about the Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust in WWII Slovakia. Documenting her own family history and the heroic and...
IN FOCUS - OPRE ROMA! HOW FAR THE STARS18th March Kriterion19th March Filmhuis Den Haag There are not many film directors of Roma origin in the European film industry. The great Hungarian talent Katalin Barsony has competently brought a compelling story of a Roma...
LETTER OF FORGIVENESSALINA SERBAN 20th March Kriterion Based on a real story of slavery from the 1800s, this period drama set in Walachia (a territory of present-day Romania) gives us a compelling look into the Roma slavery in the past, a topic rarely discussed in...
GYPSY TALES: DOJA THE GYPSY FAIRY MARIA HORVATH 19th March Filmhuis den haag “I have lived one hundred years, but never would I have thought that someday we would have a land of our own”, speaks a Roma character in the film. Her words encompass the...