A film by Șerban Georgescu
“This project is great. This is a story where you take an everyday subject and get the whole picture of the absurdities in agriculture financing within Europe.” (OLAF GRUNERT, Commissioning Editor, ARTE) “I like it very much.
I think it is a very actual movie and with a high market potential.” (BRANKO LUSTIG, Double Oscar winning producer of Schindler’s List, Gladiator) Logline: 1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year, which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?
Synopsis: In the Romanian village of Lunguletu, 1000 farmers on their tractors sit on 100.000 tons of cabbage in the local market, waiting for customers.
At the end of the day they either sell for nothing or destroy their crops. Intrigued of getting 1 ton of cabbage for just EUR 20 townie Serban decides to spend one year in the village and work the land, to see why these people got into a deadlock and if there is any way out.
The Mayor and some villagers have ideas and possible solutions. But can they overcome the farmers mistrusting each other, their fear of a “collective farm” and the powerful urge to compete? A satire of current realities in agriculture Europe narrated by the director himself, the film will tell from the inside and in a self-ironical tone the story of a village that got stuck in between past and present.
A film by Șerban Georgescu
Producer: Alex Iordăchescu
Co-producers: Șerban Georgescu, Heino Deckert
Associate Producer: Daniel Burlac
Producer: Elefant Film
Co-producers: Kolectiv Film, Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion (DE)
With the participation of Societatea Româna de Televiziune (SRTv)
With the support of Centrul Național al Cinematografiei (CNC), MDR/Arte, SRTv,
Creative Europe Media Programme
Festivals
Dok Leipzig, 2016 // One World HRFF Bucharest 2017 // DocuDays Kyiv 2017 // Millennium FF Brussels 2017 // Beldocs IDF Belgrade 2017 // FICMEC Eco IFF Tenerife 2017
CinemAmbiente IFF Torino 2017 // ENFF, Den Haag 2017 // Cinema Verite, Teheran 2017 // TIFF, Cluj-Napoca, 2017 // Pelicam, Tulcea 2017 // FFIR, Rasnov 2017
Making Waves, New York 2017
UCIN Awards 2017 – Best Documentary Award
DocuArt 2017 – Best Documentary Award
Gopo Awards 2017 – Nominated for Best Documentary
Silver Eye Award, Institute of Documentary Film 2017 – Nominated for Best Documentary
Special screening: UN FAO – Italy, 2019. Launch of UN Decade of Family Farming
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