MY BEAUTIFUL DACIA – Documentary Feature – 2010

Broadcasters:

My Beautiful Dacia My Beautiful Dacia is a humorous essay on the Romania’s odyssey from communism to capitalism, told through the fortunes of the country’s iconic Dacia, a simple and discreet automobile, but also a mirror of Romanian society. The film follows several Romanians whose lives are interconnected by this humble car, thus showing the present transformation of Romanian society from past to present.

“My Beautiful Dacia” was made possible with the kind support of the Media Program, the Romanian Film Board CNC, Channel 4 UK, YLE (Finland), MDR Germany, SVT Sweden and TVR Romania.

Awards:
Jury’s Second Prize, Documenta Madrid
Best International Film, DOCSDF Mexico

Official Selection:
Montreal Film Festival
Trieste Int. FF
Jihlava International FF
San Francisco Documentary FF
Margaret Mead FF New York
Docs DF Mexico
TIFF Transylvania Intl. FF
Documenta Madrid 2010
ZagrebDOX
IDFA 2009 Amsterdam

Director
Julio Soto & Stefan Constantinescu
Production
Adriana Malfatti & Alecu Solomon (Hi Films Romania)
Post-production
The Thinklab
Broadcasters:
Channel 4 (UK)
SVT (Sweden)
MDR-ARTE (Germany)
TVR (Romania)
YLE (Finland)
TV3 Catalunya
TVS (Slovenia)
RSI (Swizterland)
Planéte (Poland)