Love Is Not an Orange

Original Title: Love Is Not an Orange

Documentary | 72' 16" | 2022 (Completed)

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Director:	Otilia Babara
Producer:	Hanne Phlypo
Writer:	Otilia Babara

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Video letters from the 1990s chart the experience of Moldovan families divided when mothers travelled west for work.

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In the 1990s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a way to stay in touch: sending cardboard boxes filled with gifts you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became a ritual among many families. Through the intimate images of these video cameras, the film depicts the fragility of family bonds seen by a generation of mothers and daughters who were forced to live apart. While doing so, the film portrays a post-Soviet country caught at a crossroads of history. A country whose women were unwittingly put in charge of making the transition from communism to capitalism.
Begin jaren '90 verlieten veel moeders Moldavië om geld te verdienen voor hun gezin. Om hun fysieke aanwezigheid te vervangen en hun afwezigheid minder pijnlijk te maken, communiceerden ze door middel van dozen gevuld met geschenken. Dit gebaar werd een ritueel onder vele families. Met behulp van videocamera's deelden ze hun levens en deze beelden werden vaak toegevoegd aan de kartonnen dozen. Naarmate de technologie vorderde, verbeterde de beeldkwaliteit, maar de relaties werden steeds afstandelijker. Via deze intieme privé-archieven verbeeldt Love is Not an Orange de kwetsbaarheid van familiebanden door de ogen van moeders en dochters die gedwongen werden apart te leven om te overleven.

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Director
Otilia Babara
Producer
Hanne Phlypo
Writer
Otilia Babara
Editing
Pierpaolo Filomeno
Sales agent
Irena Taskovski
Sound
Mark Glynne
Music
Trigon

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Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Documentary
Year of production

2022
Production status
Completed
Original title
Love Is Not an Orange
Original language
Romanian
Release date
2022-10-18

Technical specs

Running time
72' 16"
Available in
2D
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
5.1 (+sub)
Available formats
DCP
Colour
Colour

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Clin d'oeil films

Philipssite 5
3001 Leuven
Belgium

T +32 16 905 110
info@clindoeilfilms.be

www.clindoeilfilms.be

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Festivals

2022: DOK Leipzig (DE)

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Alegria Productions (FR), Basalt Film (NL), ALT Film (MO)

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Belgian Tax Shelter, PROCIREP, ANGOA, Nederlands Filmfonds

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Shelter Prod/taxshelter.be

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Love Is Not an Orange

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Creation details

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Year of production

Production status

Original title

Original language

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Sound format

Available formats

Colour