● Documentary Film Screening, Friday, 9:00 PM 📺

The Eagles of Țaga (Romania, Slovakia, 2022)

In a village in Transylvania, locals of different ages and occupations play football for the 5th division team, Vulturul Țaga. It is the lowest-ranked team in all of Romania: the last season ended with 30 losses in 30 matches, and the new year did not start any better, with a 2-17 defeat. The team keeps losing match after match, but Nelu, the club's manager, doesn't give up. After every loss, he starts over again, because his passion for football gives him a sense of purpose in life.

The film manages to evoke with fine humor the everyday realities of rural life in the Transylvanian Plain.

Awards: Best Director - Astra 2022

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTz3-9YMB0

The screening was proposed by the Cultural Association Contrasens within the F.I.D. platform (Football as Infrastructure for Democracy) and is part of the Urban Film Camp program, CinEd 2.1.

CinEd 2.1 Urban Film Camp is an educational program organized by the Cultural Association Contrasens, where high school students, guided by film professionals, explore concepts of freedom, democracy, and participation through guided visits, film screenings, research and creative exercises, and audio-visual communication courses.

As a result of the workshops and under the guidance of mentors, the participants created a short documentary essay that personally and reflectively addresses the concept of freedom and the experiences of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989. It explores how young people relate to the revolution and what freedom meant/means to us. The short film will be released on October 16th, 5:00 PM, at Cinema Victoria Timișoara.

Cultural Association Contrasens is an organization founded in Timișoara (2015), supporting art and culture for the development of an inclusive, participatory, and creative society. It promotes art as a fundamental critical space for the development of communities and citizens. The association’s goal is to produce and promote contemporary Romanian art.

◠ F.I.D. (Football as Infrastructure for Democracy) is part of the national cultural program Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023 and is financed through the Legacy Timișoara 2023 program, managed by the Timișoara Project Center, with funds allocated from the state budget by the Ministry of Culture.
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