Le Delta de Bucarest / Delta Bucureştiului

L’histoire d’un lieu, de l’énergie qu’il dégage. L’époque communiste. Bucarest. Des femmes détenues politiques accouchent dans un des plus beaux monastères de l’Est de l’Europe, Văcărești, transformé en prison. Aujourd’hui, la nature sauvage s’est emparée du lieu, formant un écosystème sur plusieurs hectares : des espèces protégées de faune et flore… et des familles de gitans. Des enfants qui naissent dans le même espace, dans des conditions tout aussi hasardeuses.

« Making this documentary means plunging back into my memories, but going even further back, before my birth, to seek the history of the place. The trigger is Lena Constante’s tapestry, sent to me in Paris by my mother. Lena was a political prisoner. Trying to learn more about her years in Văcărești prison, I found out that a great number of women gave birth in between this prison’s walls. This documentary is a plunge into a world that is simultaneously extremely cruel and exceptionally beautiful, a product of the dreams of each generation. It is these dreams that helped women to survive decades in prison, tortured and isolated, with no books or paper to evade their situation anywhere but in their own heads. Ceaușescu’s dream of creating a lake spanning several hectares was a crazy one. Văcăresti today represents a dream for young architects and ecologists who have come to project their vision of a better and cleaner future. » Eva Pervolovici