Árpád Bogdán’s new film provides a dramatic depiction of sin, catharsis and rebirth. The story of GENESIS is formed around the fate of a young Roma boy, whose childhood...

Little is known about tragedy of the Roma and Sinti during the Second World War. They were murdered by the tens, hundreds and thousands, in concentration camps, by the edges...

Six families from the same village did the same trip. 3000km, from Romania to my school. We always imagine them on the roads, but they only talk about the one thing that really...

Set in early 19th century Wallachia, when a local policeman, Costandin, is hired by Iordache, a boyar (local noble), to find Carfin, a Gypsy slave who had run away from the...

AND-EK GHES... means: ONE FINE DAY... A song, a promise to the beloved, to the children, to oneself. Members of the Velcu family from Faţa Luncii, Romania, move to Berlin...

Documentary about the Life of romani writer and activist Katarina Taicon. The documentary tells the story of how Katarina Taicon became a leading voice when the Romani people...

An odyssey, coming of age and family separation story of two brothers filmed in course of five years since the law of “forced reintegration” have been signed between Kosovo...

The young rebel, Ricsi, lives his life on the edge. ‘Trouble’ is his middle name. He is unruly, restlessly scaring up problem after problem. Driving cars without a license,...

A youth, Rrahim, 15 years old, is the “star” of LIVES. He is from Kosovo’s Ashkali community, a disadvantaged and often discriminated against minority. Rrahim hears in...

Spartacus and Cassandra, the children of two homeless Roma, have been taken in by the young street worker Camille. In her little community she helps homeless and poor children...

10 years old Denisa is an outcast in many ways. She is an illegal citizen of a gypsy camp in Poland, but most of all – she doesn’t speak as no one has ever diagnosed her...

The Road is a story about young Stefan and the accomplishment of his dream. When he was eleven years old, he moved from Starčevo to Konak in Banat, Serbia. He was afraid...

The Way Out tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the "Romani...

Three children search a way to their dreams. Their dreams at some point become ideals which they don't know where it will take them. Will their power of dream continue to be...

Totonel (10) and his sisters, Andreea (14) and Ana (17), are waiting for their mother to come back home from prison. As they grow up, each of them learns how to survive on...

Laci is a 16-year old gypsy boy, who lives off casual jobs. One day, he gets picked up from the streets along with a small group of workers for a construction job. He has to...

What happens when you drop off school? Contact: romawood@gmail.com Website:https://romawood.org Watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78ExbLGKxk&list=PLMXUGk2SMW9SXrCAje9d5rvolTqrRjBKh...

"Loli Kali Shuba" is a Romani nursery rhyme about the ladybird. Twenty years on Ukrainian filmmaker Aleksandr Balagura returns to the Romani settlement where a twelve-year-old...

A girl falls in love with someone she is not supposed to.   Contact: romawood@gmail.com Website:https://romawood.org Watch online: https://vimeo.com/138302510...

Mangava Disco Punk (in Romany meaning “I love disco punk”) is the only punk rock band in the famous Macedonian gypsy ghetto “Shutka”. Their front man Elvis unsuccessfully...

Tchavo is a young Romanian boy who lives with his aunt in a camp located on a waste ground near a forest. His family is working to recover copper for sale. The men are not...

This film is based on the true story of the Roma poet Bronislawa Wajs (1908--1987). The film follows Papusza's life from birth to old age: arranged marriage as a small girl,...

In this beautifully told and stylish road movie Roma radio reporter Orhan Galjus travels along with filmmaker Bob Entrop to Germany, Poland and to his native Kosovo. They try...

A young girl shares her views on the importance of education and the cost of early marriage.   Contact: romawood@gmail.com Website:https://romawood.org Watch online:...

The film is about a young blacksmith and his desire to make extraordinary things of metal.       Contact: romawood@gmail.com Website:https://romawood.org Watch...

The film depicts the life of two young people who are starting to deal hard drugs. While in doubt, they buy a kilogram of cocaine, which they intend to sell on the black market....

"I've always played Gypsy Music, that's what my father taught me. But I would like to know where this music is from". Willing to discover the roots of Gypsy music, famous Austrian...

Invisible Talents" is a short film in which the filmmakers are looking for talented young Roma, who know how to sing, play, beat box and express themselves artistically. Contact:...

A New Life" shows the new life of Abaz in Caravadicë. Abazi used to live in the "social buildings" in Plemetina. Since his house was recently destroyed, Abaz had to find a...

Feature film “Shanghai Gypsy” is a love story. The main protagonists are members of the Mirga family. This story about four generations is narrated by Lutvija Belmondo...

A coming of age documentary that follows the lives of two young men striving for a brighter future: Valon, of Roma (“Gypsy”) descent, living in post-war Kosovo and Loyiso,...

Sejdo, a Roma from Kosovo is now living in Slovenian, after he was forced deported from Switzerland, Sweden and Germany. He is now meeting a Hariz an NGO activist trying to...

A People Uncounted tells the story of the Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies—a people who have been both romanticized and vilified in popular culture. The Roma have endured...

This is a short story about a fascinating young Roma guy from Montenegro who lives alone but his aims are high and his life philosophy is totally different from any other Roma...

On an invitation from the International Poetry Biennial, Muzafer Bislim, a struggling poet and songwriter from the Roma community of Shutka, FYROM, travels to Paris, France,...

The film starts with the killing of the father of Adam, a fifteen year old Roma body from a shantytown. He is brought home dead, and no one knows how it happened. There are...

This film tells a story of Gregor Brajdič, his memories about the oppression of Roma people during the post-Second World War period, and the difficulties that his own family...

Three Roma children from a small Transylvanian town participate in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools, struggling against indifference, tradition...

There comes a time when a tribe is con- fronted with tales of its own origins. People from other tribes approach, saying, “Here, we have discovered your secrets, your past,...

The short documentary deals with the role of the women in modern Roma society. It focuses on early arranged marriages. The film is set in the pink house in Plemetina, a small...

Haji is a father of five children and a husband. Jobless, he is trying to kill time by watching TV or radio, but since the electric cuts often he is going to fish in a toxic...

In October 2010, the chancellor Angela Merkel claimed that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had "utterly failed". From the perspective of children like...

Arben lives in a village and dreams about fancy life. Contact: romawood@gmail.com Website:https://romawood.org Watch online: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXUGk2SMW9RM-iscc08hly6NM3XwhJbH...

The musical project AfterPhurikane Gila is based on an anthropological investigation in Roma settlements in Slovakia. Jana Belisova collected hundreds of old Roma songs. After...

It is generally thought that the Roma journey westward started in India more than a thousand years ago, though the group didn't appear in Europe until the fourteenth century....

Have you ever seen a faucet for wine
and liquor? Or a house in all colours of the rainbow, combining the aesthetics of ancient Greece with PVC joinery in the unique style...

Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, bright and edgy, sometimes too edgy. Under pressure from his community, Jimmy converts to Pentecostalism and gives up his two passions: Thai...

Alisa and Verica are best friends since childhood, but when faced with the most important decision for Romani women of marriage and sexual maturation they make entirely different...

A very intimate journey on the ending of nomadic life and on the difficulties of settling in a council apartment told in first person with irony and playfulness by a young...

In 2000, a year after losing their homes in the Kosovo conflict, 161 Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian families from four Kosovo towns were moved to a “temporary community shelter,”...

Haki, 28, is a Kosovar belonging to the minority group "Egyptians". Haki had lived in Germany for 17 years, then he was deported back to Kosovo in 2007, having to leave his...

Martina is 17 years-old. She is ambitious and successful. She goes to high school and imagines for her future an independent woman’s life “without being married too early”....

At the outskirts of a provincial town in Bulgaria, the administration built a housing facility designed to picture the social „Paradise" - an impressive building which had...

All the dreams in the world you can have, only one to follow. Contact: romawood@gmail.com Website:https://romawood.org Watch online: https://vimeo.com/21172302...

A boy's secret trek from his country town to Budapest to claim a prize evolves into the hopeful search for his missing father. Lali, a Roma boy, wins a chocolate bar from a...

A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned."...

George Eli, an American Gypsy, turns his camera on the secret life of his Romani culture. As we see through his 8mm family footage, growing up Gypsy was’ a pretty good life’-...

Hetea is an isolated settlement of Roma in Central Romania. Hidden deep in the hills, around 350 people live in handmade huts. In The Source we experience a day in Hetea. The...

From the birth of a New York City downtown Ruso-disco phenomena, known as the Bulgarian Bar, to a non-stop touring marathon, with his band Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hütz takes...

I Have Dreamt of Working as a Hairdresser portrays the media little known reality of everyday life of Gypsies in Western and Eastern Europe. The documentary tells the
life...

Xasarde droma" [The roads to Nowhere] documents the birth and existence of a shantytown on the outskirts of Paris - until one morning of expulsion, and resistance. This lm...

In the Romany culture, the role of the man and the role of the woman are well delimited. So there is no need for a girl to study, and she can drop out of school early with...

"A Family Divided" is a documentary about the post-war identities of Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptians in Kosovo. It is about the shaping of identities by recent wars and conflicts....

The sinti Hugo Hoellenreiner talks about an encounter at Auschwitz, more than 60 years ago, which haunts him even today. Contact: sales@filmakademie.de / +49 7141 969...

Film maker Bob Entrop followed the remarkable violinist Nello Weis Mirando for one full year remarkable because Nello is only capable
of playing the violin with just two...

Kenedi is in a huge debt after building a house for his family. He finds himself searching for any kind of work to support himself, for as little as 10 EUR per day, a scarce...

Plemetina is very close to Prishtina. It is charming. It is real. This village hosts the survivors from one of the most adventurous journeys in history. The Roma population...

In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York’s Gypsy Punk Band Gogol Bordello....

Shot by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles, this dynamic musical documentary follows five Gypsy bands from four countries who unite for the Gypsy Caravan as they take...

The film is set in the present, in an unidentified Hungarian town. The young Romany boy Attila was brought up in a children’s home and, having come of age, is completely...

The documentary ”Romski Bal“ takes the audience to Guča, in Central Serbia, to an event of superlatives. Since 1961 the small village hosts a sort of Grand Prix of brass...

“The Purge“ documents an historical event of 1956 in Pankakoski, Finland. Mistrust between Roma and the majority community erupted dramatically. The men of the village...

Synopsis: After his participation in filming of “Kenedi Goes Back Home”, Kenedi Hasani decided to illegally go to EU countries where his father, mother, brothers and sisters...

The lights of the Olympic Stadium loom above the rooftops of a pink and purple village. Below, women wash clothes, men peel garlic, and children play in the dust. Prokopis...

A beautiful and colourful picture of a disappearing nomad community in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India. This film provides an insight into the roots of the European Roma....

I care for my donkey more than I do for my for my own man and kids. But now it’d dead. If I had a donkey now, I would live like a member of Parliament”- concludes Turica,...

In Achères, in the Yvelines department
of France, Salcuta Filan, a young Gypsy from Rumania lives with her two children and 30 other families on a strip of earth in the...

This film is about people who emigrated to European countries during the war years of the nineties. They have lived there for years, had children and took them to schools....

On the outskirts of Belgrade, a group of Roma gypsies lives in dingy shacks. They are refugees, most of whom have no papers. They support themselves by collecting garbage,...

Porraimos, or "the devouring." It is the first American documentary to expose how the pseudo-science of eugenics was used to persecute not only Jews, but also Gypsies. To the...

In a suburb of Strasbourg, ten-year-old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani music being played in a local bar, and loves...

Caco is a proud, handsome man, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter, and has transferred all his wildly...

There are one million Gypsies, or Rom, in America who most people know nothing about. Filmed over five years, this “warm, humourous, fascinating” feature documentary lyrically...

"Ceija Stojka" is a portrait of 64-year-old Austrian Rom Ceija Stojka, who, after a nomadic childhood, settled in Vienna many years ago. In the recent past, Ceija Stojka's...

Stéphane travels to Romania in search of the singer called Nora Luca. Nora Luca was his father’s favorite singer whom he used to listen to all the time before his death....

Latcho Drom retraces the historic road taken by the gypsies over the centuries from India to as far away as Spain. They have been accursed, hunted and condemned to spend their...

Nara is a morose, intransigent gypsy who has thrown his wife out of the house because a social worker talked her into using birth control pills. Now he lives with his 80-year-old...

Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal mens hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief whos heart is stolen by Rada and his mind is bewitched. But Rada...

Bora is already married to an older woman and Tissa is offered a marriage arrangement. As they fall in love, Tissa rejects the marriage and they go to the mountains to get...

An observation of a gypsy fleet through villages and town. Contact: festiwale@wfdif.com.pl, marika.cieslik@wfdif.com.pl Watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOyiJ1zq3c4...

Une jeune gitane quitte avec précipitation sa tribu car certains veulent la forcer à épouser un homme contre sa volonté mais en échange d'une somme d'argent importante...

This film shows the gipsies'life in Hungary, the prejudices they are faced with when adapting themselves to society and the gipsies'ancient customs which often defy adaptation. Contact:...