Common ground

Directors: Anne Schiltz & Charlotte Grégoire

Editor: Thomas Vandecasteele
Duration: 82min & 52min
Release: 2011

In coproduction with Samsa Films & the WIP Wallonie Image Production
With the help of the french speaking community of Belgium


Bucharest. A block of flats and its inhabitants, snapshots of a life lived cheek by jowl, intimate moments shared with us. Twenty years after the fall of the Ceaucescu regime, in the midst of a deep economic crisis, the people we meet in this film overflow with an unquenchable lust for life and reveal their personal, moving and often funny views on their lives, their city and their country. They are neighbours organizing themselves to pay the communal costs, they are citizens whose shared experiences are the blocks that build a European story.

Awards and screenings

  • Avril 2013 - Italie - Eurorama, Trento Film Festival
  • Mars 2013 - Estonie - Worldfilm Festival
  • Mars 2013 - Créteil, France - Festival International des Films de Femmes
  • Mars 2013 - Lubiana, Slovénie - Days of ethnographic film festival
  • Août 2012 - Lussas, France - Etats Généraux du film documentaire, "Expériences du regard"
  • Sept 2012 - Namur, Belgium - Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur FIFF
  • Oct 2012 - Sibiu, Romania - Astra Film Festival - ASTRA FILM AWARD FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY IN THE COMPETITION „ROMANIA”
  • Nov 2012 - Paris, France - Bobines rebelles
  • Feb 2013 - Brussels, Belgium - Nova, 07.02.13, screening
  • March 2013 - Brussels, Belgium - Pianofabriek, 06.03.13 / 7:30PM, screening
  • March 2013 - Tartu, Estonia - Worldfilm Festival
  • March 2013 - Créteil, France - 35ème Festival International du Film des Femmes
  • March 2013 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Days of Ethnographic Film Festival
  • April 2013 - Italy - Eurorama, Astra Film Festival
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