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CLARA

By Sabin DOROGOI

Drama - Completed 2023

CLARA addresses the fate of over 5 000 000 Romanians who work outside Romania and are often forced to leave their children behind.

Festivals
& Awards

Film Festival Cottbus 2023

Audience Award

South East European Film Festival Los Angeles 2024 2024

Bridging the Borders Award for Best fiction film

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama, Social issues, First film
- Countries
- ROMANIA, GERMANY
- Languages
- ROMANIAN, GERMAN
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Sabin DOROGOI
- Writer(s)
- Ruxandra GHIȚESCU
- Cast
- Olga TÖRÖK, Ovidiu CRIȘAN, Luca PUIA, Elina LEITL
- Producer(s)
- Sabin DOROGOI (WESTERN TRANSYLVANIA STUDIOS), Daniel EHRENBERG (EYRIE ENTERTAINMENT GMBH), Viorel CHESARU (CHAINSAW EUROPE STUDIO SRL)
- Synopsis
- Set on the background of economical migration, the film tells the story of Clara, a divorced mother in her thirties who needs to work abroad in Ulm, a German Town by the Danube River. She works as a babysitter for a little girl that is very fond of. At the same time, she had to leave behind her own 12 years old son who is now in the care of his grandfather. They live in a poor Romanian village also by the Danube River. Overwhelmed by feelings of disappointment and feeling abandoned by his mother, the boy runs away from home in a childish attempt to reach his mother by water, traveling on a small boat upriver on the Danube. In this context, Clara has to come back home and face the life she left behind: her responsibility for the actions of her son...