One of the most important Romanian (debut!) films of the past year is Timebox, by Nora Agapi, which was released last year at Ji.hlava IDFF, where it won the grand prize of the „Between the seas” sidebar, which is dedicated to documentary films produced in Central and Eastern Europe. The film is centered around Ioan Matei Agapi, one of the most famous and prolific photographers and documentarists from Iașului - a city whose contemporary history is conserved in his impressively immense personal archive, which is considered to be one of the biggest such archives in Romania. The film weaves together the images of Agapi Sr. with those of his daughter, Nora, who captures a critical moment in the life of their family: their gradual eviction from their apartment in the Braunstein Palace, a landmark historical building in Iași.

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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