'Black Sea' movie casts different light on relationship between Italians and Romanian immigrants

Feature length movie 'Mar negro' ('Black Sea'), a Romania- France – Italy co-production, directed by Federico Bondi, will be screened from September 17 in Bucharest and in Cluj. The Bucharest premiere screening will be organized at the Studio cinema in Bucharest on September 16. The film got a prize for the best actress – for Illaria Occhini – at the Locarno film festival. The film also got the ecumenic prize and the youth jury prize at the same festival. Several Romanian actors starred in this film which was shot in Florence and in the Danube Delta: Dorotheea Petre, Vlad Ivanov, Maia Morgenstern. The film was inspired from the life of the director's grandmother. About the Black Sea movie

A recently widowed older woman opens her Florentine apartment to a young Romanian caregiver. Seeming so different in the beginning, the women discover they have much in common and become close friends, until an unexpected event threatens their equilibrium. The film is built on the relationships created between Italians and the Romanian immigrants, showing this relationship in a different light than what the world knows from the news headlines.