Oceanul Mare
Director Katharina Copony
Countries
Duration 80 min
Synopsis
At the centre of the film are three Chinese who emigrated to Bucharest in the early 1990s. It follows their trails through the Romanian metropolis and their various connections to the largest Chinese market in Europe, on the outskirts of Bucharest. In a series of episodes, it accompanies the characters through their everyday and business worlds, which are marked by harsh contrasts, and tells of the feeling of being a foreigner, of cultural shifts and the challenge of forever plunging into the unknown and each time having to reinvent oneself.
At the centre of the film are three Chinese who emigrated to Bucharest in the early 1990s. It follows their trails through the Romanian metropolis and their various connections to the largest Chinese market in Europe, on the outskirts of Bucharest. In a series of episodes, it accompanies the characters through their everyday and business worlds, which are marked by harsh contrasts, and tells of the feeling of being a foreigner, of cultural shifts and the challenge of forever plunging into the unknown and each time having to reinvent oneself.