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Children of the Jiu Valley are familiar with roads. Theirs but especially those of the adults. Roads through the tunnel, the mountains or the Valley. All the roads seem made to leave as well as to return. The parents of these children, once the inhabitants of an old industrial area of Romania, take now long roads to reach the West, wherever they may find work. They return too seldomly. They send money. Their children are a lot like orphans. Many of them experience depression. Some choose to take the fatal road to Paradise or Hell. Maybe with the hope of coming back to a kinder vale.

ALEXANDRA GULEA (1970, Bucuresti, Romania), graduated in 1997 at ENSBA in Paris. She studied documentary film at Munich Film School and since 1999 directed Documentary Films: “Anonymous”- 11`, 2000 International competition Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Prize fff bayern, Munich Documentary FF, Minority Prize Mediawave, Hungary . “God plays Sax, the Devil Violin” 45`, 2004, German Short Film Prize, Golden Key, Kassel, Best Student Film, Molodist, Ukraine, DAAD Prize, Germany, Prix du Film Long, Les Ecrans Documentaires, France, Mention Henry Langlois, Poitiers. IFF Rotterdam, Cinema du Reel Paris, IDFF München, IDAFF Leipzig, IKF Oberhausen, MoMA. “Today I was Young and Pretty” 52`, 2008, Festival dei Popoli, Firenze, Italy , Cronograf, Moldova, IFF Györ, Ungary, TIFF, Romania, MNAC, Romania, Institut Culturel Francais, Romania. Short films : « Wooden Boy » 10’, 2017, Rencontres Internationales Paris - Berlin, IKF Oberhausen. « Valea Jiului - Notes » 13’, 2018, Bucharest Experimental FF, Astra Sibiu, Prize for the Best German Film, IKF Oberhausen. As Fiction films she directed and edited: “The fourth wall"- 17`, 2001 with Werner Schroeter, IKF Oberhausen. “Hacker”, 5 x 52 min. TV-fiction, 2003. She wrote, directed and co-edited her first feature “Matei Child Miner” 2013 Nominated for the “Big Screen Award” IFF Rotterdam, Premio “Lino Micciché”, “Young Critics Award” at Pesaro IFF Italy. Prize at Regiofun IFF, Katowice, Poland. Cinema Jove Valencia IFF Spain, Zlin IFF Czech Republic, TIFF Romania, Anonimul Romania, FF Edu, Evreux, France. IWFF, Köln. Werkstatt Kino, München.