Archive: Year 2023
BALKAN DOX
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife
Arsenie. Viața de apoi
Director
Alexandru Solomon
Producers
Ada Solomon
Diana Caravia
Cinematographers
Marius Beșu
Tudor Platon
Editors
Cătălin Cristuțiu
Sophie Reiter
Sound
Alin Zăbrăuțeanu
Website
Contact
microFILM
23A Gramont Street,
040182, Bucharest, Romania
+ 40 212 524 867
[email protected]
2023
Romania, Luxembourg
96 min
Color
A dead monk’s gaze is hypnotizing the masses, becomes a very profitable brand and is about to be sanctified by the Romanian church. Following in Arsenie’s footsteps, we embark on a fictionalized pilgrimage, that leads us – with humour and fantasy - through our present confusion and global fears. No afterlife guaranteed.
Director
In the early 1990s, Solomon emerged as a young director of photography and he started making documentaries aside from filming feature films. Solomon was among the first Romanian film-makers who committed themselves to a then compromised genre; today, he is one of the leading political film-makers from Romania and active on the international documentary scene. His recent work triggered public debates about the function of documentary film within the public sphere and contributed to re-establishing documentary film as an arena for reframing Romania’s recent history.
