LIFE'S HARD / LA DRUMUL MARE
Gabriel Sirbu, Romania, 2007
Fiction, colour, 20'
Romanian with English subtitles
With
Andi Vasluianu
Claudia Prec
Gabriel Spahiu
Friday 11 April 2008
6.30 pm / Shorts
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Screened with
IN THE MORNING, BAHRTALO!, INSPIRATION, SASHA, GRISHA & ION
A car, a taxi, two vans and a motorcycle: the world is set in motion. City, town or countryside... everybody seems to be engaged in some sort of quest, looking for a hotel, a temporary shelter, a parking space, an electric cable, and - why not? - a poet willing to lend his talents to a cause which requires urgent action. Eastern European humour always travelled well, as demonstrated by our light-hearted shorts session.
A rather decent robber and his foxy victim.
Awards
Audience Award and Special Jury Prize, Premiers Plans Film Festival, Angers
Gabriel Sirbu
Born in 1970 in Bucharest, Sirbu moved to Israel to study Biology in 1990, merely to return to Romania six years later to study film. His graduation film, An Invitation to Lunch, won, among others, the main award in the short film section of the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2001. Sirbu is currently teaching film in the National Film School in Bucharest.
