Acasa, My Home

Radu Ciorniciuc | Romania, Germany | 2020 | Unclassified (15+)

Australian Premiere

Morally intricate and breathtakingly exquisite. – Film Threat

For two decades, the Enache family has lived on the fringe of society in untouched wetlands next to Bucharest, in a rare urban ecosystem with flourishing biodiversity. Director and cinematographer Radu Ciorniciuc silently observes the combative patriarch Gica, his wife and their nine children as they are forced to reckon with social services and the local city council, who have different very plans for the family and the place they call home.

Acasa, My Home gently, and without judgement, probes complicated questions about who decides what is in the best interest of children, how the generational cycle of poverty disproportionately affects minorities; and whether development and ‘civilisation’ should happen at the expense of personal freedoms. Immersive sound design and sweeping cinematography illustrate the juxtaposition of bustling Bucharest next to what is now Văcărești Nature Park, however Ciorniciuc never loses sight of the family at the centre of all this chaos.

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