Kanopy (Firm)
1) Valentina
Language
Romany
Description
Valentina lives among her extended family in the poor quarters of a Roma neighborhood in Macedonia. The ten-year-old girl is a tomboy and a highly gifted storyteller. Via quirky anecdotes, surreal daydreams and painful memories, Valentina introduces us to her family: we observe her father Asim collecting bulky rubbish, her mother Naile begging, her sister Ramize braiding hair, her brother Ferdi who is full of mischief and her granddad who can only...
Language
Romany
Description
Shot in central Russia in 1993, T'an Bahktale! documents how Russians, Romani performers, well-to-do merchant Roma, and poorer, metalworking Roma describe what it means to be a Gypsy. Before shooting, one of the directors did more than two years of fieldwork in Russia with Roma (1990-1993).