Luxembourg / Austria 2005 l 75 min l colour l 35 mm
Romanian & French (with subtitles)
(International Competition)
Camera: Elke Groen
Editing: Elke Groen, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Thomas Korschil
Sound: Philippe Kohn, Elisabeth Reeh
Production: meter film Wien, Minotaurus Film Luxembourg
Producers: Alexander Binder, Michael Gartner, Elke Groen, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
Financial Support: BKA, Land Oberösterreich, Stadt Wien, Filmfund Luxembourg, ORF Innovationsfond
Shooting Location: Bucharest (Romania)
Bunica lives in Romania. Bunica is 89-year-old Ana Ionescu, the grandmother of one of the film's directors. The interesting story of her life centres around a century full of changes and upheavals. Her experiences, her memories and her social networks lead the viewer to other people, other lives, other realities. In the film they tell their stories, describe their dreams and look into the future.
Bunica is a trip through the Romania of yesterday and today - a trip through social and political landscapes full of contradictions, from the pulsating capital city of Bucharest to the rural periphery. Supported by archive material, the film portrays, from a personal point of view, a country that is still looking for its place in Europe 15 years after the revolution.
