On the Impossibility of an Homage

On the Impossibility of an Homage
dir. Xandra Popescu/Romania, Germany/2024/19 min.
place
date
time
Kinoteka, 2
2025-05-10
20:45
Meeting after the film: Iga Lis (director)
Iluzjon, Mała Czarna
2025-05-12
18:00
Iluzjon, Mała Czarna
2025-05-16
18:00

Film presented in the Block 2. Short Films: https://mdag.pl/22/en/warszawa/moviesPackage/Block-2.-Short-Films

Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion was a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we discuss the possibility of a shooting, Ion is initially overjoyed. He’s been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But as things progress, he finds it hard to accept my approach. He questions my ability to make the film happen.

The film is presented as part of the project Cinema as a Laboratory V co-founded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.

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  • projection time:
    19 min.
  • country/year:
    Romania, Germany /2024
  • director:
    Xandra Popescu
  • original language of the film:
    Romanian
  • pictures:
    Pedro Bordaberry
  • editor:
    Catalin Cristutiu, Ana Branea, Xandra Popescu
  • production:
    Ada Solomon, Xandra Popescu, Jonas Dornbach / microFILM
  • festivals and awards:
    2024 – Locarno IFF, 2024 – Singapore IFF, 2024 – FIPADOC Biarritz

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