THE CITY OF ROMA 2008
Frédéric Castaignède

SYNOPSIS



The City Of Roma
In the ghetto of Nadezhda in the heart of Bulgaria, twenty thousand Roma live enclosed behind a concrete wall. Every day, teaching student Angel Yichaliev rounds up Roma children to take them to school, partly in an attempt to gradually integrate them with their Bulgarian counterparts, but partly because the Roma school doesn?t stretch much further than drawing lessons and singing. We follow the life on one such schoolgirl, Elen, hear the views of a bar owner and his wife, and watch Angel?s obstinate efforts to integrate the Roma community into the majority Bulgarian society. And then there?s the forthcoming election. In this fledgling democracy, the Roma have the right to vote ? and all the candidates are out to buy their support.



TECHNICAL DATA



Director: Frédéric Castaignède
Production: Caroline Roussel
Screenplay: Frédéric Castaignède
 Editors: Monique Dartonne
Cinematography: Laurent Didier
Soundtrack: Evgueni Galperine
Runtime: 97 min. Language: Bulgarian, romani Color: Color

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY
Frédéric Castaignède was born in 1971 in Paris. He studied Political Sciences and International Relations before going away as voluntary worker for two years to Bangladesh. To his return to France in 1997, he is for two years independent journalist in different organs of written press, radio and televisivion before start to write documentaries. From 2000, he made eight documentaries, the majority of the political content, which take a look compromised on the contemporary world.


FILMOGRAPHY
- L?autre mondialisation (2000)
- E-Santé, Les liaisons dangereuses (2001)
- Journal d?un Président (2002)
- Greffe de vie (2003)
- Le profit ou la vie (2004)
- Les derniers jours de Tuvalu (2005)
- Contre toute impunité (2006)
- Le cité des Roms (2008