Visiting Room / Soba za posjete

Vorbitor

In Competition > Documentaries

The Romanian penitentiary system allows, from 2006, the marriage of people sentenced to serve time in prison. Most of the inmates cultivate the pre-existing relationships with partners who live outside the prison walls. Though, there is a special category, of those who find a life partner during their time in prison. VISITING ROOM follows the stories of some prisoners found in different penitentiaries across the country, who have found their life partner during their sentence time. The one is either a person from outside, or as them, a person who is serving time in prison. The intention was to talk to the people found in the special situation of being deprived of freedom, to whom love becomes a substitute for freedom and represents their only hope for a better future.

Alexandru Baciu was born in 1977 in Romania. The documentary “Vorbitor” is his directorial debut. He is known worldwide as a writer of “The paper will be blue” (screened at 2nd Vukovar Film Festival) and “Tuesday after Christmas” (screened at 2010 Sarajevo Film Festival)