Synopsis
Romanian fairy tales usually start with the sentence: Once upon a time something happened, if it hadn’t happened it couldn’t be told. In this fairy tale, a stranger visits the remote mountain village of Slon.
This film was made at an annual ten-day filmmaking residency in Slon. As a stranger myself, first time to Romania, with only four days to shoot and four days to edit, I wrote this modern-day fairy tale to coincide with my fantasy idea of what my unpredictable visit to the village would be like.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Re-Voir
- Foreign production company : Centrul Cultural Meta
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Pip Chodorov
- Screenwriter : Pip Chodorov
- Director of Photography : Pip Chodorov
- Editor : Benjamin Hélius
- Sound Recordist : Benoît Maerens
- Costume designer : Marguerite Lantz
- Foreign Producer : Radu Pervolovici
- Line Producers : Radu Pervolovici, Eva Pervolovici
- Assistant Operator : Vlad Dinu
- Camera Operator : Pip Chodorov
- Production Manager : Romelo Pervolovici
- Special Effects : Benjamin Hélius
- Sound Mixer : Stéphane Rives
- Narrator : Alexandru George Manta
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction, Experimental
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Fairy tale, Bizarre
- Themes : Minorities, Travel, Exclusion
- Production language : Romanian
- Coproducer countries : Romania (70.0%), France (30.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Romania, France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 9 min
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.78
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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