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THE SAME DREAM

Vlad Petri
Romania
29 min.

The traumatic fiber of war soldiers is often sealed with images. One of them is this one. We’re in Afghanistan. A Romanian soldier driving an armed vehicle sees a wounded child. His recurrent nightmare is gazing over her olive eyes asking for help yet doing nothing to save her.

Vlad Petri’s docu-fiction hybrid follows the soldier’s confession, composed of POV’s of an armored vehicle (these docu-war utility images images are abstract to the point of atomization, one can’t distinguish the objects on screen), and a fiction-forged narrative of a little girl leaving her house  in search of water before tragedy strikes. These two alternative lives, embedded in the text are shortly and tragically intertwined. Neither the soldier nor us know what happened to the poor child, yet this is how war manipulates memory. When asked about what he thinks about the Afghanistan War by a Romanian correspondent, the soldier can’t and wouldn’t articulate anything.  (Georgiana Mușat)

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Joi, 18 Noiembrie - Cinema Elvire Popesco

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VLAD PETRI

Vlad Petri studied Cinematography at UNATC Bucharest (2004), followed by a MA degree in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie University in Berlin (2014). His selected filmography includes: “Where are you Bucharest?” (2014- Rotterdam IFF/ Romanian Gopo Award for Best Debut Film), “The Deer Passed in Front of me” (2020 – Jihlava Film Festival / Romanian Gopo Award for Best Short Film), and “The same dream” (2021 – Sarajevo Film Festival – short). Currently, he is in production with his second feature – “Between revolutions” – expecting to premiere in 2023.

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LENGTH: 29 min.

YEAR: 2021

PRODUCTION COUNTRY: Romania

DIRECTING: Vlad Petri

SCRIPTWRITING: Vlad Petri

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vlad Petri

EDITING: Vlad Petri

SOUND EDITING: Vlad Voinescu

SOUND MIX: Filip Mureșan

 

PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION: Vlad Petri/ Activ Docs

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