The Exit of the Trains had its national premiere two weeks ago, at the One World Romania film festival. Co-directed by Adrian Cioflâncă and Radu Jude, the film attempts at restoring the memory of 200 victims that lost their lives during the Iasi Pogrom, the most brutal singular incident of the Romanian Holocaust, where thousands of Jewish people lost their lives or were deported on the „death trains” between the 27th and 29th of June, 1941. Molded on a formal structure that is similar to the one used in The Dead Nation (2017), the film shows the photographic portraits of those killed in the Pogrom across its three hours of screentime, along with the (sometimes very few) biographical details that survive them; at times, intermissions feature the gruesome testimonies of those who survived deportation, culminating with a silent montage of the images shot during the massacre.

Flavia Dima

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Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.

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