The Dead Nation

The Dead Nation shows a collection of photographs from a small Romanian town in the 1930s and 1940s. The soundtrack, composed mostly of excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, depicts what the photographs do not: the rising of antisemitism and eventually the harrowing depiction of the Romanian persecution of the Jews, a subject rarely talked in contemporary Romania.

“A highly accessible but complex, ambiguous and significant work of cinematic art” – Hollywood Reporter.

Filmography: Scarred Hearts (2016), Aferim! (2015), Everybody in Our Family (2012), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009).