The House by the Synagogue, Mediaș, 18.00
National preview - short version (20 minutes) of the documentary film ”Gestures of Resistance” 2019. The projection will be followed by a public debate.
Film by Olga Ștefan with input from Bratislava Policy Institute and Post Bellum
”The documentary is divided into five chapters: armed resistance, resistance through art, civic and political resistance, resistance through solidarity, and, finally, the conclusion to the four previous parts. In the film we talk about former partisans in the Slovak national rebellion, and with survivors of Auschwitz or Transnistria. We will present unique works of art made in different camps, and stories like this, completely unknown previously. And, what's most interesting to me, in any case, in this documentary, is that these three countries are related to a very beautiful family story, with which, in fact, we start the film. It is about a Czech from Zilina, whose sister fought at Banska Bystrica among the partisans, was then deported to Terezin, where she met a Hungarian from Cluj, and after the war they both moved there to Cluj." (...)
(interview Olga Stefan - Radio Free Europe Moldova)