From 1 October at the cinema directed by Marta Bergman presented at the ACID section of Cannes and at the Rome Independent Film Festival. Distributed in Italy by CINECLUB INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. The director, Romanian by birth, she immediately dedicated herself to the documentary, exploring Romania and observing Roma communities. This is his first fiction feature film.
Finally, after the stop due to the pandemic, this harrowing story of social and psychological unease arrives in our rooms.
It is the story of the young Roma Pamela, single mother, who dreams of a better world for herself and her child and not the miserable life with her grandmother and imagines that a qualitative leap in her life is possible.
Facing a thousand hardships for herself and her daughter, she begins this journey of hope that will take her to Belgium to meet her possible future life partner Bruno.
Bruno although already an adult and with a good social position is still tied to the umbilical cord of his mother but also to the severe judgment of his father.
What might seem at first glance a "safety exit" for both protagonists is instead a fiasco due to the lack of communication between two worlds so different but linked by social and psychological discomfort. The first of material misery but eager for love and the other of moral misery although also imbued with a loving desire. Love is not for sale because it is actually a gift. Put yourself in front of this reality.
Both manage from these contradictions to find a new balance in life.
With a straightforward cinematographic language that at first may seem childish, the young director brilliantly faces this experience, passing from the cinema of the real to that of fiction, but without abandoning the style of social denunciation that is closer to the cinema of the real of which this feature film is the natural outcome of the investigations conducted during his career as a documentary maker.
Many times we remain vigilant and attentive to understand how this or that situation will end, how Pamela will manage to get out of the trouble she got herself into. But we are also close to Pamela and her little girl in the most tender situations and in the intimate and profound belief that the path of female emancipation is difficult but inevitable, and primary also with respect to ethnic identity, to be defended but whose traditions are not always worthy of conservation, especially in this story the more macho ones, rough but similar to the more intellectual and subtle ones of the enlightened Belgian bourgeoisie.
Below is the Italian trailer: