Love is not an orange
By Otilia Babara
Belgium, Moldova, Netherlands, France 2022 | 73 min.
Description:
The fragility of family relationships seen through the eyes of a generation of mothers and daughters, who were forced to live separately in order to survive, are rendered in the film "Love is not an orange" through the intimacy of images from the family archives. The film presents a post-Soviet country caught at the crossroads of history, whose women have made the transition from communism to capitalism
About the author:
Otilia Babara is a documentary filmmaker from Moldova currently based in Brussels.
She holds a degree in documentary filmmaking from the Docnomads European Master program (Belgium, Hungary, Portugal) and is a 2013 Berlinale Talents fellow.
She directed and produced the short films Irene (2015), selected for several international film festivals, and Women on Canvas (2009), awarded in Astra Film Festival and Cronograf Film Festival.
She is drawn to those who usually go unnoticed. Her films expose big wounds hidden in small details and she's fascinated by untold stories of women.
The movie is in Romanian with English subtitles.
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