CineRoma 2.0: Three Thousand Numbered Pieces, Háromezer Számozott Darab

Join us for CineRoma 2.0, the UK’s first Roma Film Festival, now in its second year. Brought to you by Offline (formerly Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios | GAMIS) and Romano Lav, a community-based organisation working with Roma communities in Govanhill, Glasgow. CineRoma aims to present diverse films by and with Roma people, exploring self-perception, identity, history and systems of power.

The festival programme has been co-curated in collaboration with a cohort of Roma Young People from Govanhill through a series of workshops organised by Offline and Romano Lav.

Three Thousand Numbered Pieces

Háromezer Számozott Darab

Ádám Császi

Hungary, 2022

Hungarian with English Subtitles

93”

A white Hungarian director rehearses a play with five young Roma actors. His play tells their real-life stories of abuse, drug addiction, and crime. However, instead of representing the truth of their experiences, it only capitalises on their pain and exploits them. The actors quit the play, only to find that their white director has already sold the show to Berlin's biggest theatre and the premiere is looming. Their rehearsals turn into a surreal exploration of racism and white guilt, blurring the lines between fiction and reality - and the play and the film itself. The film features an all-Roma creative team and is based on an actual play written by them about their real-life stories, presented in Deutsches Theater, Berlin. It asks the question of whether left-wing white intellectuals trying to help people of colour actually end up helping to perpetuate systemic racism. Can the artistic representation of Roma, the biggest ethnic minority of Europe, ever be done without falling back on racist stereotypes?

18:00 - doors

18:30 - Three Thousand Numbered Pieces

20:00 - event ends

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OFFLINE, formerly (Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios) is a charitable organisation committed to supporting experimental arts and community-focused film programming in Govanhill.

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Pay what you can: £0-£12

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All titles will be shown with closed captions.

The OFFLINE Cinema has step free access but toilets are not accessible. We apologise for this and assure you that we are working on making the building a more welcoming space. In the meantime, The Bungo on Nithsdale Rd have granted our audience access to their accessible toilets.

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Certification:

Uncertified, 15 advised, contains violence

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Image description: a young man holds a gun up to oa figure off camera, a woman covered in facepaint, looks in the same direction with concern. The word CINEROMA is repeated atound the frame in bold pink text.

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Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI and National Lottery Community Fund, Awards For All.

Host or Publisher GAMIS