Romanian film screening at the 22nd edition of the London Short Film Festival (LSFF) 2025.
Romanian film will be proudly represented, with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, at the 22nd edition of the London Short Film Festival (LSFF) 2025, which will take place from 17 to 26 January in cinemas across the British capital. „Spune o poezie” / "Tell Me a Poem" will be screened on Thursday 23 January at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (tickets HERE). Directors Elena Chirila and Ana Gurdiș, will present the film and take part in a Q&A after the screening.
The short film follows a woman’s journey towards liberation and healing through recollections of her younger self. The sequences of a personal diary, highlighting the child-adult evolution, accompany the viewer on a journey marked by uncertainty, helplessness and self-doubt, which eventually lead to escape. The video poem oscillates between poetry and documentary, emphasizing a woman’s struggle to free herself from repression and regain her voice and strength.
Tell Me a Poem (Spune o poezie)
Directors: Ana Gurdiş, Elena Chirila
Producer: RHEA
Runtime: 00:11:38 min
Year: 2023
Country: Romania
Screenings:
London Short Film Festival 2025
Bucharest Feminist Film Festival
FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival
Filmul de Piatră
Filma. Feminist Film Festival
International Internet Film Festival of Short Films Diogenes
Funded by Creative Europe - Culture Programme by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency
Developed at ECHO III: For Memory’s Sake audio-visual residency in Bucharest, Romania, 1 – 14 March 2023
Elena Chirila is a visual artist and producer whose work - with and about Eastern Europe and the Balkans - addresses issues such as gender-based violence, migration, the environmental crisis, and historical revisionism. She studied at the Arts University in Iași, Romania and École supérieure d’art Annecy Alpes in France. In 2024, she collaborated as an assistant curator for the Trans(myth) project at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana and was the first Moldovan artist to receive the Prince Claus Fund SEED Award.
Ana Gurdiș is a filmmaker from Moldova who currently resides in Bucharest. She holds a Journalism degree from the National University in Moldova and a Film Direction degree from the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. In 2021, she premiered her debut feature documentary “Our Eve” at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Currently, Ana is working on her second feature documentary and trying new forms of video art in between.
The London Short Film Festival is held annually in January at various locations in London. Founded in 2004, the Festival celebrates short film productions from every genre, including drama, comedy, horror, science fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, music and low-budget films.
The full programme of the festival HERE.
