MOVED FROM US: combines theatre with cinema and visual arts.

The viewer is taken on a sensory journey, becoming part of the story of Mbaye, a Senegalese man who boards a boat carrying illegal migrants bound for Europe.

Throughout the journey, Mbaye recalls certain key moments and characters from his childhood. His inner monologue is interspersed with interviews and short interventions filmed in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia.

Mbaye's journey is the journey of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war, poverty and hunger. Even tomorrow, the carousel of history could uproot you too, forcing you to flee, to leave everything behind.

In this maelstrom of displacement, of migration, an occult dimension seems to govern our destinies, whether we call it voodoo in Africa, or charms/spells in rural Romania.

The puzzle is completed by the story of Mrs Pârvu from Comloșu Mic, told by actress Dana Taloș in the form of a filmed monologue. Here we learn that the magical ritual of saving a sick child from death in the Banat region of the 1950s had unexpected similarities with voodoo practices on the African continent. Alexandru Drăgan's interview, recorded as part of the project "Cămine in Mișcare" in 2019, in Comloșu Mic, a place of the deported, "moved from us", bears witness to this.

25 HOURS OF NON-STOP THEATRE (13th edition) is a cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.