Off the beaten track (87 minutes; in Romanian, with English subtitles)
Director: Dieter Auner
Producers: Siun Ni Raghallaigh, Cristian Mungiu, Dieter Auner
29.11.2012, 18:30, Jerusalem Cinemateque (Hall 4)
Q&A with the director Dieter Auner, after the screening
The film will be introduced by the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld.
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Off the beaten track chronicles a world, untouched for centuries, struggling with profound change.
Against this changing landscape, Dieter Auner's documentary introduces us to Albin Creta, a teenage Romanian shepherd from Northern Transylvania. We experience a year of his life as he works shepherding, cutting hay, making cheese and dipping sheep, and the dark nights on the Transylvanian mountain. In this sensitive documentary, the drama is observed in the minute: the selling of the lambs, the purchase of a car, the departure for Germany. Albin and his family adapt to each trial, changing to meet the new demands asked of them. One can feel the loving attention to detail to the world of the rural Romanians.
Dieter Auner was born in 1970, in Mediaş (Romania), in a Transylvanian Saxon family. In early 1990 he emigrated to Germany, living afterwards in Ireland. He worked as a photographer and cameraman for both Irish and international productions. His debut as a director was made with the film Leaving Transylvania (2006), a documentary on the life of the Transylvanian Saxon community in Romania.
A collaborative project of the Jerusalem Film Center and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Second Anthropological Film Festival, initiated in 2011, promotes documentary filmmaking with an ethnographic orientation and charts the complexities and unique expressions of individuals and communities in society, culture, and politics. This year there will be screened films from: Lithuania, Russia, Germany, France, USA, Congo, Spain, Ethiopia, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Romania, Sweden and China.
For more details and full program:
www.icr.ro/pedrumurineumblate
http://www.jer-cin.org.il/website/modules/films/Program.aspx?id=331
