THE DEAD NATION @ LFF Pop-up Studio | BFI London Film Festival 2017

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Channel: BFI · 2017 · Film & Animation

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Director Radu Jude talks about The Dead Nation, in which a troubled period of Romanian history is brilliantly brought back to life through archive photographs. A haunting account of life in provincial Romania in the years leading up to the Second World War, the faces of the people who lived in those times stare at you with startling immediacy: some are smiling, some stern, some obscured by a fascist salute. 

During this year's London film festival the BFI operated a pop-up studio at the Mayfair Hotel. Over two weeks the studio welcomed film-makers from across the festival's line-up. 

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