Charges Communes
Common ground
- A film by Anne Schiltz & Charlotte Grégoire
- BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG, 2012, 84’, colour, documentary
- Produced by Eklektik Productions in coproduction with Sama Film/WIP
- With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Fonspa Luxembourg
- Romanian / English or French subtitles
- Common Ground got 2 festival awards: Astra FILM FEST 2012 (Sibiu, Romania) and IDFF CRONOGRAF 2013 (Chisinau, Moldova)
Bucharest. A block of flats and its inhabitants, snapshots of a life lived cheek by jowl, intimate moments shared with us. Twenty years after the fall of the Ceausescu regime, in the midst of a deep economic crisis, the people we meet in this film overflow with an unquenchable lust for life and reveal their personal, moving and often funny views on their lives, their city and their country. They are neighbours organizing themselves to pay the communal costs, they are citizens whose shared experiences are the blocks that build a European story.
Bucarest. Un bloc, ses habitants, des instantanés de vie collective, des moments intimes partagés avec nous. Vingt ans après la chute du régime de Ceausescu et en pleine crise économique, les personnages du film débordent d’une infatigable volonté de vivre, et nous livrent des regards singuliers, parfois drôles et touchants sur leur vie, leur ville et leur pays. Voisins, ils s’organisent pour pourvoir aux charges communes liées au bloc. Concitoyens, ils portent et transmettent des vécus communs, tributaires d’une certaine histoire européenne.
- Directed by: Anne Schiltz & Charlotte Grégoire
- Photography: Charlotte Grégoire
- Sound: Anne Schiltz
- Editing: Thomas Vandecasteele
- Sound Editing: Jean-François Levillain
- Mixing: Loïc Collignon
- Grading: Xavier Pique
- Producers: Samuel Tilman/Marie Besson
- Ciné-club Nickelodéon (Complexe ULg-Opéra) (17/12/15)
- Bucarest (Romania), UrbanEye FilmFestival (novembre 2015), prix du meilleur film
- Lille festival D'est en Est (Interphaz), novembre 2015
- Bucarest (Romania), Rahova Street Delivery (10/2013)
- 36ème festival de cinéma de Douarnenez (08/2013)
- Brussels, ciné-club dvdoc.be, le cercle des voyageurs (06/2013)
- Edinbourgh, UK, 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (06/2013)
- Créteil, France, Les Ecrans Documentaires (Les "mardi de l'oh!") (06/2013)
- Chisinau, Moldavie, IDFF Chronograf (06/2013) IInd prize, Cadro Section
- Trento, Italia, 61th Trento Film Festival (Eurorama section) (04/2013)
- Créteil, France, 35e festival international du film de femmes (section Europe Extrême) (03/2013)
- Tartu (Estonia), 10th Worldfilm Festival (03/2013)
- Days of ethnographic film festival (Lubiana-Slovénie) (03/2013)
- Brussels, Pianofabriek, Cinedomo (03/2013)
- Brussels, Cinema Nova (02/2013)
- Bucharest (Romania), Astra film on tour 2012 (National Peasant Museum) (12/2012)
- Marseille (France), Film Flamme, Semaine asymétrique 2012 (11/2012)
- Saint-Denis (France), Bobines rebelles, 3e festival du documentaire d’auteur social et politique (10/2012)
- Sibiu (Romania), Astra Film Festival (10/2012), Best documentary in the competition “Romania”
- Paris, Semaine des cultures étrangères à Paris, cycle cinéma et architecture, Institut Hongrois (10/2012)
- Namur (Belgium), Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur FIFF (09/2012)
- Lussas (France), Etats Généraux du film documentaire, "Expériences du regard" (08/2012)
Marie Besson (Eklekitk Productions)
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