The Bed is Broken
DOCUMENTARY
Production Co: Aristoteles Workshop Association
Producer: Dan Nuțu
Cast: Răzvan Văduva, Vasile Câșmaru
Director: Raluca Răcean Gorgos
Director of Photography: Ana Maria Vijdea
Editor: Dan Ștefan Pârlog
Sound: Tudor Petre
Supported by Arte France
Festivals
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFA
Kerala International Film Festival, India
Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest, Romania
Astra International Documetary Film Festival, Romania
Cromograf International Documetary Film Festival, Republic of Moldova
Victoria Film Festival, Romania
DocuArt Documetary Film Festival, Romania
Jihlava Internatiolan Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
One World Romania Film Festival
NexT Internatinoal Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF , Romania
FFeST Cluj , Romania
Discuția secretă International Art Festival, Arad, Romania
Culese din Bakani International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Special Screenings
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
Vgik, Moscow, Russia
Award
Best Film Award at Aristoteles Workshop, Romania
Nominated Silver Eye Award Czech Republic
Here is the toboggan… here's the prison for small children… a cat… a bunny… two stars in the sky… "
A lost childhood. Two children explore the dilapidated entrails of a deserted factory, looking for bits of scrap metal for money. Through a patient camera, the film follows the behavior of the boys in their struggle for survival.
Where does the playing end and the work begin?
"I personally find The Bed is Broken a special piece, brave in its austere rigorous visual style and elliptical storytelling, which "strips to the bone" the language and manages, through this very "simplicity" to achieve a strong emotional effect. "
Adina Pintilie (Film Director, Producer, Curator BIEFF)
"The Bed is Broken works with subtlety, silence and an eerie visual sense. It gets you so close to these deprived kids, so much that the files they throw at each other hit you as well. Finally, the heart is broken as much as the whole world in which they live in. "
Alexandru Solomon (Film Director, Producer)
"The Bed is Broken is this exceptional "film", an observation, a piece of visual art, a documentary that takes us "à l'intérieur" of the mood of two boys, of post- communist Romania, inside ourselves. "An object d'Art". "
Tania Rakhmanova (Film Director, Producer)
Year of production: 2013. Running Time: 24 min
Color / Sound / Subtitled