Vlad Petri’s feature-length documentary Between Revolutions will premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival (February 16th-26th) in the Forum category.
Produced by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan of Activ Docs and co-produced by Oliver Sertic for the Croatian company Restart, Between Revolutions is about two students at Bucharest University in the 1970’s, Zahra and Maria. Zahra, an Iranian, decides to return home after the 1979 revolution in her country. Despite being separated by a decade of political upheavals, their friendship continues through their letters, surviving the Iranian revolution and the Romanian one of 1989.
Made entirely from archival footage, director Vlad Petri told Film New Europe, that his documentary “is an important film for today’s world because it focuses on two women, both in patriarchal societies, who live through two of the most important revolutions of the 20th century.”
Petri is a documentary director, producer and screenwriter. He made Bucharest, Where Are You Bucharest? (2014), which won three Romanian Gopo Awards including Best First Film, The Deer Passed in Front of Me (2020) and The Same Dream in 2021.
Vlad Petri’s films are characterized by his deep interest in social and political subjects. Between 2012 and 2017 he filmed the ongoing protests against the Roșia Montană mining project which began in 2013 and are still active today. His work on these protests can be seen on-line.
Sources: Film New Europe, Activ Docs, Vlad Petri
