Ovidiu Bose Paștină

A peasant went to work in constructions for a few years in Bucharest. He's thinking of returning home, but only after overturning his father's unfair sentence.

Short university film.

Short university film.

An ordinary man is picked off the street to be an extra in a movie. (Film studențesc IATC)

A documentary inquiry into how the Ceausescu government in Romania was overthrown, focusing on the man who issued the orders to shoot at protesters.

A documentary inquiry into how the Ceausescu government in Romania was overthrown, focusing on the man who issued the orders to shoot at protesters.

People Telling Stories is an industrial, health-and-safety commission turned into an aesthetic exercise by one of the most flamboyant young directors at Sahia. In the early 1980s, Romania experienced a crisis triggered by the so-called ‘Transcendental Movement’ (a variation of the ‘Transcendental Meditation’ movement created by Maharishi Yogi, with some significant involvement from the Romanian Secret Police). Those involved, most of them members of the intellectual elite, were harshly repressed. One of them was Paștina, who lost his right to make documentaries for cinema distribution and was demoted to directing health-and-safety films commissioned to Sahia by various institutions.