Festivals/Awards:
Participation in the Cronograf Film Festival, Chisinau
Director's Bio-Filmography:
Dragoş Zămosteanu, de formatie inginer, jurnalist, fost profesor de filosofie, şi-a urmat pasiunea pentru film. A realizat reportaje (Faţa nevăzută a Ceahlăului – 2008; Salutări din Iaşi – 2011) şi proiecte internaţionale (Art, My Story). Este autor de filme documentare selectate în festivaluri internaţionale (Ella Urmă. Povestea unei vieţi – Festivalul Internaţional de Film Documentar „Cronograf” de la Chişinău din 2013;Viaţa între două filme – Festivalul de Film Românesc de la Montreal din 2014). În prezent este şi traducător.
Director's / Curator's Statement:
„While in 1944 they were among the few who risked their lives to save Jews from deportation – it is not by accident that Maria, Nicolae, and Aristina Pop are listed in the Righteous Among the Nations database of Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem! –, in 1949 they came to be chased by the Romanian Political Police for having hidden in the mountains other people, persecuted by the new political regime established by the „liberator” Red Army...I first saw Aristina Pop-Săileanu at Sighet: in a photograph at the Prison Museum, at the entry of the cell 82, alongside with the other figures of the anti-communist resistance group Pop-Oniga (‹Ţibleşul›). In quest of that sad but resolute face, on which the spark of the just revolt wouldn’t be stifled by the communist mud, I found out, step by step, the story of a woman who stood up to the terror in the name and by virtue of pure and simple human dignity. These are the origins of the present film, dedicated to the Pop family from Lăpuşul Românesc. The fact that such people still exist, with an intact ethical DNA, is a reason to hope that all is not lost yet!“ (Dragos Zămoșteanu)