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Django Reinhardt Movie

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Django Reinhardt Movie

A movie from 2017 about Django Reinhardt. While other Sinti across Europe are persecuted, Django’s popularity allows him to feel safe – until the Nazis try to send him on tour to Germany. Django refuses. His Parisian lover helps him, his pregnant wife, and his mother go into hiding near the Swiss border. There he meets members of his extended family, who are also on the run. He plans to cross Lake Geneva into Switzerland, but the Nazis are hot on his heels.

Well, the Swiss denied him Entry …

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Movies and Roma

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Movies and Roma

An interview with Nick Ferenc, a Romano actor. On social media, he breaks down prejudices and humorously breaks down stereotypes that he himself struggles with. In the podcast Hlas Heroine, he describes how difficult it is for a Romani actor to break free from pre-given expectations and not just play flat caricatures. For example, he sees a positive change in his role in the upcoming series from the creators of the hit Most!, where he plays a prisoner. “It was important to me that I didn’t play ‘Roma’.

As he himself says, even top screenwriters can throw away their talent and write a flat caricature when writing Romani roles.

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Movie on Hate

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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.

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Ake Dikhea

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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”.

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RomnoPower

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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.

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Digital Archives

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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.

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Khamoro Festival and Chaplin

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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.

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Ballerina

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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

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Czechia: Documentary Festival

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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.

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Roma Musicians

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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.

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Na Plech

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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.

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Czechia: Documentary

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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.”

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French Chronicle …

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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.

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Poland: Movie

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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.

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Berlin Ake Dikhea Festival

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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.

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