COUNTRY: Germany YEAR: 2022 RUNTIME: 7 min

DIRECTED BY: Hamze Bytyci

LANGUAGE(S): German

SUBTITLES: English

SCRIPT: Lisa Smith

CREATIVE PRODUCER: Lisa Smith

ANIMATION: Tiago Araujo

ILLUSTRATION: Tiago Araujo

SCORE: Mal Eleve

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SYNOPSIS

This short animated film, which follows the life of French Romani author Mateo Maximoff, reasserts the power of the written word as a means of survival, commemoration and preservation of cultural heritage.

Hamze Bytyci

Hamze Bytyçi is a curator, media and theatre educator, director and performer, as well as the chairman of RomaTrial e.V.. In 2017, he founded the International Roma Film Festival AKE DIKHEA?, which has since taken place annually in Berlin under his direction. His short documentary JOŽKA was screened at NIHRFF in 2017. in 2021 Hamze Bytyci was a member of our International Festival Jury.

Jožka (2017), Memory Boxes (2019), …die bringen nur die Verbrecher weg (2019), Branko (2022), Menschen können zweimal sterben (2022), Familie Ujvari (2022), Noncia (2022), Haus ohne Räder (2022), Listen (2022), I Sang Again (2022)

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PRODUCTION: Roma Trial e.V. (post@romatrial.org)

WORLD SALES: Roma Trial e.V. (post@romatrial.org)

GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: Roma Trial e.V. (post@romatrial.org)