A conference on the representation of Sinti and Roma in Holocaust films will be held November 12-14, 2025.
https://www.fsa.uni-heidelberg.de/en/filmhub/holocaust-film/conference2025
Heidelberg: Conference
Tag Archives: Movie
Movie on Hate
As part of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR) conference in Warsaw on October 13 focusing on Roma human rights the screening of the movie That Boy follows the journey of Toby, a former Roma refugee, and Mirek, a former neo-Nazi, as they confront the roots of hate and explore the possibilities of dialogue and reconciliation. It revisits the largely untold story of anti-Roma violence that spread across parts of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s.
- Movie on hate and healing in focus of Roma and Sinti event in Warsaw. In: OSCE. 13.10.2025. https://www.osce.org/odihr/599187
Ake Dikhea
The film festival “Ake Dikhea” is starting. Two films currently highlighted are “Reaching for the rope”, and “The earth beneath Margaret’s feet”.
- AKE DIKHEA?: Short Film Competition. In: Babylon Berlin. 10.10.2025. https://babylonberlin.eu/film/9229-ake-dikhea-short-film-competition
- AKE DIKHEA?: Reaching For The Rope. In: Babylon Berlin. 12.10.2025. https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/ake-dikhea-roma-film-festival/9232-ake-dikhea-reaching-for-the-rope
RomnoPower
As part of the RomnoPower Culture Week 2025, Cinema Quadrat and the Baden-Württemberg Association of German Sinti and Roma will present
director Adrian Oeser’s two documentaries in person. In addition, protagonist Wesley Höllenreiner will provide insights into his family history. Both films address the long periods of disenfranchisement of Sinti and Roma.
- „Wesley schwimmt“ und „Der lange Weg der Sinti und Roma“. InK Kommunal Info Mannheim. 22.09.2025. https://kommunalinfo-mannheim.de/Veranstaltung/wesley-schwimmt-und-der-lange-weg-der-sinti-und-roma/?instance_id=6322
Digital Archives
Works from the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute have undergone the process of digitization and are progressively available in DCP (Digital Cinema Package) format, and therefore can also be screened in digital cinemas.
The almost thirty-two-minute film Upre Roma [Upward Roma] (1955) by Dimitrij Plichta is not only an example of contemporary Slovak documentary work, but also the first film in the history of Slovak cinema that attempts to portray the Roma ethnic group with empathy.
- digitálne kino V biede a chorobe, no nie z vlastnej viny. In: Film SK. 10.09.2025. https://filmsk.sk/tipy-a-ohlasy/digitalne-kino-v-biede-a-chorobe-no-nie-z-vlastnej-viny/
Burgenland Roma
A very recently (2025) restored documentary about Burgenland Roma from 1954. The young boy in the movie just died this week in Vienna. May he rest in peace.
The commentaries and the story are still fraught with stereotypes and misconceptions and with a view on assimilation versus integration. Still worth looking at it.
https://www.filmarchiv.at/de/filmarchiv-on/video/f_02z3zg4rN50IbrQMa8LJl5
Ange et Soléa
The latest movie from Tony Gatliff, Ange et Soléa, is presented at the Cannes Festival.
- Ange et Soléa: Na festivalu v Cannes měl premiéru film s romskou tématikou. Radio Žurnal Rozhlas. 26.05.2025. https://radiozurnal.rozhlas.cz/ange-et-solea-na-festivalu-v-cannes-mel-premieru-film-s-romskou-tematikou-9481744
Khamoro Festival and Chaplin
The film Chaplin I Spirit of the Tramp tells the story of the Roma identity Charlie Chaplin. It will have its Czech premiere in Prague: during the Khamoro Roma Culture Festival on May 27 at the Atlas Cinema and on May 30 at the central Municipal Library.
The film captures the family’s search for the Romani roots of the famous actor, director and screenwriter, whose character The Tramp has become one of the most iconic symbols of world cinema. The documentary is based on the testimonies of members of Chaplin’s family, especially his son Michael. But it also draws from a unique family archive. Viewers will get to know previously unpublished materials and get to know Chaplin from a new perspective.
- Chaplin a jeho romské kořeny: Festival Khamoro uvede českou premiéru filmu o slavném komikovi. In: Lidove Noviny. 22.05.2025. https://www.lidovky.cz/kultura/khamoro-charlie-chaplin-praha.A250522_085233_ln-kultura_ljpl
Ballerina
The upcoming John Wick film “Ballerina”, featuring actors Ana de Armas, Ian McShane, Norman Reedus and Anjelica Huston. What does this have to do with Roma?
Well, the main character “has been trained in the assassin methods of the Russian Roma”. This is de-facto profiling Roma and misrepresenting them.
Besides the fact that killing people is not part of Romani culture.
PROTEST
- In: IMDB. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7181546/
- Ballerina: Exkluzívne fotografie z filmu z univerza Johna Wicka. In: IGN. 19.03.2025. https://cz.ign.com/ballerina/21429/news/ballerina-exkluzivne-fotografie-z-filmu-z-univerza-johna-wicka
Czechia: Documentary Festival
The One World International Documentary Film Festival will begin on Wednesday, March 12. Its program also includes the film Fakir, which looks into the family of a twenty-something Roma named Dalibor. He spent two years in prison for perjury, then he returns home and immediately has to face new problems. His younger brother Kevin grows up to be a domestic abuser and an alcoholic. Dalibor wants the boy to be entrusted to his mother. But the decision depends on the court.
He tries to succeed in a circus to give his brother and himself a better future.
- Festival Jeden svět uvede film Fakír, jehož romský hrdina se snaží uspět v cirkuse a dát svému bratru i sobě lepší budoucnost. In: Radio Žurnal. 10.03.2025. https://radiozurnal.rozhlas.cz/festival-jeden-svet-uvede-film-fakir-jehoz-romsky-hrdina-se-snazi-uspet-v-9427988
Roma Musicians
How to make a documentary film not about Roma musicians, but with Roma musicians? This is what ethnomusicologist Petr Nuska thought about. For many years, he knew musicians from central Slovakia and they wanted to create their own music videos. So he helped them create the video clips, the Roma musicians themselves took on the roles of directors, and Petr Nuska then made a film about the film. The feature-length documentary is called Hopa lide and was filmed with its author by Jana Šustová.
- Hopa lide. Film Petra Nusky s romskými muzikanty. In: Radio Žurnal Rozhlas. 11.02.2025. https://radiozurnal.rozhlas.cz/hopa-lide-film-petra-nusky-s-romskymi-muzikanty-9410297
Na Plech
Extremely incorrect comedy “Na plech” is a big hit in Czech cinemas with more that 65’000 viewers in the first week, Slovak cinemas are afraid of it. It is an extremely incorrect comedy, with uncompromising style and humor that goes beyond the limit. For example, one of the scenes features a group of Roma cooking methamphetamine.
- Extrémne nekorektná komédia Na plech s prehľadom valcuje české kiná, tie slovenské sa jej boja. In: Startitup. 31.01.2025. https://www.startitup.sk/extremne-nekorektna-komedia-na-plech-s-prehladom-valcuje-ceske-kina-tie-slovenske-sa-jej-boja/
Interview with Zea
An interview with Zea, a Romni whose grand-mother was the wirter Elena Lacková and who is an actress and singer.
- Prostredníctvom melanchólie cítim generácie predo mnou. In: Top Fashion. 01.01.2025. https://www.top-fashion.sk/prostrednictvom-melancholie-citim-generacie-predo-mnou
Czechia: Documentary
The documentary Dajori [small mother in Romanes], which won the audience award at the Jihlava Film Festival, is now in theatres. The film is ostensibly a story about a Roma foster family, but it also reveals the housing crisis, the trade in poverty and racism rooted in society.
The foster mother, Dajori Marie Hučkova, in the movie says “Ravens are like Roma. There are many of them and they are roaring. People don’t mind, so shoot them. An animal can take care of its children, and my sister, the mother, cannot take care of her children.”
- Havrani jsou jako Romové. I zvíře se umí starat o své děti, a moje sestra ne, říká hrdinka filmu Dajori. In: Denik N. 16.11.2024. https://denikn.cz/1577347/havrani-jsou-jako-romove-i-zvire-se-umi-starat-o-sve-deti-a-moje-sestra-ne-rika-hrdinka-filmu-dajori/
French Chronicle …
A few articles on the action “a month for Roma”, with exhibitions and documentaries. Unfortunately always with the idea that Roma are “Travellers”… In Perpignan, in the South of France, there was a conference of Manouches, Gitans and Roma. Finally, items stolen from building sites were recovered ina Roma camp near Angers in the centre of France.
- Mois pour les Roms à Tence : deux expos, deux regards sur les voyageurs d’ici et d’ailleurs. In: La Commère 43. 04.11.2024. https://www.lacommere43.fr/loisirs/item/69605-mois-pour-les-roms-a-tence-deux-expos-deux-regards-sur-les-voyageurs-d-ici-et-d-ailleurs.html
- Dans le cadre de « Un mois pour les Roms », Les Roms, des citoyens comme les autres. In: Le Berry. 11.11.2024. https://www.leberry.fr/loisirs/agenda-sorties/evenement/308050
- Le Mois pour les Roms se décline à Yssingeaux aussi. In: La Commère 43. 06.11.2024. https://www.lacommere43.fr/yssingeaux-les-sucs/item/69654-le-mois-pour-les-roms-se-decline-a-yssingeaux-aussi.html
- Les Roms et Aznavour à l’honneur au Ciné Tence. In: Le Progrès. 07.11.2024. https://www.leprogres.fr/culture-loisirs/2024/11/07/les-roms-et-aznavour-a-l-honneur-au-cine-tence
- CONFÉRENCE GITANS, MANOUCHES ET ROMS Perpignan, mardi 5 novembre 2024. In: Unidivers. 05.11.2024. https://www.unidivers.fr/event/conference-gitans-manouches-et-roms-perpignan-pyrenees-orientales-2024-11-05/
- Cigarettes, Redbull, matériel de chantier : du matériel volé saisi dans un camp de Roms à Angers. In: Ouest France. 07.11.2024. https://angers.maville.com/actu/actudet_-cigarettes-redbull-materiel-de-chantier-du-materiel-vole-saisi-dans-un-camp-de-roms-a-angers-_9-6543285_actu.Htm#google_vignette
Poland: Movie
“Wrooklyn zoo” is a tribute to youth. A film with Wrocław as background is now in cinemas
Director Krzysztof Skonieczny himself comes from Lower Silesia and, like the main character of the film, as a teenager he roamed the streets of Wrocław on a skateboard.
It’s a modern version of Romeo and Juliet, except that Romeo is a skater, Juliet is a Romni and Verona is Wrocław.
- „Wrooklyn zoo” to hołd dla młodości. Film z Wrocławiem w tle już kinach. In: Wroclaw TVP. 19.10.2024. https://wroclaw.tvp.pl/83053357/wrooklyn-zoo-to-hold-dla-mlodosci-film-z-wroclawiem-w-tle-juz-kinach
Berlin Ake Dikhea Festival
The successful Slovak series Iveta was among the selected film productions at the well-known international Roma festival Ake Dikhea?, which takes place every year in Berlin. This festival, which has been appealing to a wide international community for several years with its uniqueness and cultural significance, focuses on the presentation of Roma films that reflect the diverse stories, lives and perspectives of Roma around the world.
- Seriál Iveta mieri na prestížny rómsky festival v Berlíne! In: Joj. 04.10.2024. https://www.joj.sk/tlacove-spravy/975657-serial-iveta-mieri-na-prestizny-romsky-festival-v-berline
French Chronicle …
A reportage in a Roma camp near Marseilles in the South of France. These are not necessarily productive, as they reinforce many stereotypes which are not valid for all Roma. Near Paris, a camp was closed due to the Olympic games, and it seems from another reportage, that besides Roma, others are also displaced due to the Olympics. Finally, an interview with the mayor of a suburb from Nates about an integration camp there.
- « Au cœur de la communauté de Roms de Marseille » réalisé par Stephane Surace. Ion: Coulisses TV. 12.07.2024. https://www.coulisses-tv.fr/index.php/documentaires/item/37960-«-au-cœur-de-la-communauté-de-roms-de-marseille-»-sur-rmc-story-dimanche-14-juillet-2024
- JO Paris 2024 : un campement de Roms démantelé dans le Val-de-Marne. In: Valeurs Actuelles. 13.07.2024. https://www.valeursactuelles.com/regions/ile-de-france/val-de-marne/no_agglomeration/societe/jo-paris-2024-un-campement-de-roms-demantele-dans-le-val-de-marne
- Jeux olympiques: SDF, migrants, Roms, prostituées: les misérables des JO de Paris. In: La Liberté. 09.07.2024. https://www.laliberte.ch/news/international/jeux-olympiques-sdf-migrants-roms-prostituees-lesmiserables-des-jo-de-paris-736692
- ENTRETIEN. Accueil des Roms à Rezé : « la Classerie, on a voulu aller trop vite », estime la maire. In: Ouest France. 10.07.2024. https://nantes.maville.com/actu/actudet_-entretien.-accueil-des-roms-a-reze-la-classerie-on-a-voulu-aller-trop-vite-estime-la-maire-_-6375795_actu.Htm#google_vignette
Movie
Acclaimed Slovak director Martin Šulík made an uncompromising film about a young Roma boy born in a settlement in Eastern Slovakia.
The director said: “We wanted to make a film about our Roma because we realized that we don’t know anything about them. We know the Gypsy Kings, a one-hundred-member Roma orchestra from Budapest, but we have no idea of the conditions in which two hundred thousand Roma live in eastern Slovakia. Before we started writing the script, we travelled around Roma settlements and met interesting people who opened up to us and told us their stories. Our film was made up of their stories. We did not want to mythologize the Roma, look at them as folklore or romanticize them. We wanted to capture their life truthfully, because life in a Roma settlement is a reflection of our world. It’s just that everything is more emotional, more intense and more direct.”
- Tragický příběh romského chlapce. In: Szena. 27.05.2024. http://www.scena.cz/index.php?d=1&o=4&c=45804&r=11
Ilona Ferková
A documentary about Ilona Ferková, a successful Romani writer in Czechia is being shown in Prague. It is called “Ilona Ferková: I like to laugh, I like to make things up”
- ILONA FERKOVÁ: RÁDA SE SMĚJU, RÁDA SI VYMÝŠLÍM.In: Art ¸Veska Televize. 28.04.2024. https://art.ceskatelevize.cz/kulturni-prehled/ilona-ferkova-rada-se-smeju-rada-si-vymyslim/0BVIq
EN 
DE 
FR