collective, Alexander Nanau’s latest feature, documents the aftermath of the fire that took place at the Colectiv club on the 30th of October 2015, which led to the deaths of 64 people and a further 146 injured. Showing consideration towards the victims, the film takes the tragedy as its starting point but goes further down the path of the social and political effects that it catalyzed: the civil society’s reaction, the government’s resignation, the crisis of the diluted disinfectants produced by Hexi Pharma, the instatement of a technocratic government. The documentary shootings have covered little over a year, starting from the fire – approximately 14 months, according to the director’s statements.

Andra Petrescu

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Andra Petrescu is currently enrolled as a PhD student at UNATC, with a thesis on the Romanian documentary produced at Sahia Film Studio during 1950-1970. She co-edited the anthology “The Reality of Fiction, the Fiction of the Real” together with Irina Trocan (Bucharest: Hecate, 2018), and contributed to “The Film of Transition” (Tact, 2017, ed. by Andrei Gorzo and Gabriela Filippi) and „Romanian Cinema Inside Out” (RCI, 2019, ed. by Irina Trocan). She collaborated with several publications (AaRC.ro, Film, Observator Cultural, Films in Frames, Acoperisuldesticla.ro, Film Menu)

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