Geamăna
Storyline
Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the toxic mud of a neighboring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. Only a few people held on to their homeland. On the edge of the past, Valeria Praţa is struggling with her present - and is threatened by the future.
About the film/director
After graduating from high school, Matthäus Wörle studied journalism at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He then completed a video journalism scholarship at Mediencampus Bayern. He worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bayerischer Rundfunk and nautilusfilm GmbH, among others. He now works as a freelance video journalist and is studying documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film in Munich.
Filmography (Selection)
Lebenszeit | 2018 | documentary | B-W | 9 minutes
Sealand | 2020 | documentary | Color | 30 minutes
Geamăna | 2022 | documentary | Color | 30 minutes
Credits
- Director:
- Matthäus Wörle
- Script:
- Matthäus Wörle
- Camera:
- Max Kölbl
- Editor:
- Felicitas Sonvilla, Matthäus Wörle
- Ton:
- Matthäus Wörle
- Sound:
- Giuliano Loli
- Producer:
- Paul Scholten, Herbert Gruenwalt, Anca Titorov
- Germany
- OmdU (Romanian)
- 2021
- 30 minutes