WHERE WE USED TO SLEEP
Matthäus Wörle / Germany / 2024 / 82 min / Colour
Italian premiere
Once upon a time, a thousand people lived in the village of Geamăna, in the Apuseni Mountains, in Romania. In the 1970s, Nicolae Ceaușescu's dictatorship installed a copper mine in the administrative district of Alba, which dumped toxic waste right in Geamăna. Today only the spire of the church tower remains, rising above the waters of an artificial reservoir, infected by the toxic mud that submerges everything in its path. The houses have sunk and the inhabitants have fled. Valeria Praţa is the only one left in this deserted village. Accompanied by her few animals, she fights to defend her home and to avoid being uprooted from her land and roots, while the incredible images of the devastation and the folk music reflect her nostalgia. Some citizens advise her to do what seems reasonable, and abandon her land now transformed into a dystopian thriller, but Valeria resists with dignity and courage.
Matthäus Wörle
A freelance filmmaker and journalist, he studied journalism at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and at the Mediaschool Bayern. He then continued his studies at the University of Television and Film Munich. He has worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Bayerischer Rundfunk and Nautilusfilm. He shot, among others, Geamăna (2022) and Where we used to sleep (2024), his first feature film, selected at the Thessaloniki International Documentary FF 2024.
Credits
Cinematography Moritz Dehler, Max KölblSound Matthäus WörleEditing Matthäus Wörle, Felicitas SonvillaMusic Giuliano LoliProduction company megaherz
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