The young director Sara Budrala was rewarded with the jury prize in the Romanian short film competition at the Câmpulung Film Festival, for the film “Soniarebeka”. This year, 88 short films were entered in the competition, of which 14 entered the competition. It is the second award for “Soniarebeka”, after last month it received the award for Best Fiction Film at the Stone Film Festival in Piatra Neamț.
Sarah Budrala
Selected productions in the Romanian short film competition at Câmpulung Film Festival, they were analyzed by the expert jury consisting of Adrian Sitaru, Oana Hodade, Radu Gagiu and voted anonymously by the public. The Audience Award was won by Marius Miron for the film “Madre”, and the jury’s special mention went to Ștefan Marcu for “Jinx”.
Sarai Budrala’s short film, awarded at Piatra Neamț and Câmpulung Film Festival, explores a ritual of the Sânziens, that of washing with dew, which popular tradition says is meant to find out the bear and prepare young maidens for marriage. Brought to the present in the young director’s film, the ritual is reinterpreted to become relevant for the young generation, by emphasizing the liberating, purifying effect. In the case of the protagonists, the reinterpreted ritual is a catalyst towards adult life and shows how connecting with ancestors and nature lead to the consolidation of the individual’s identity. See here: https://vimeo.com/869849294?share=copy.
Sara Budrala is 24 years old, she studied anthropology at the Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2019-2021) and graphics at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca (2018-2020), having as her diploma project the project “Tu ce porti now?”. On the artist’s website (https://sarabudralacom.wordpress.com/) you can learn more about her projects.
Currently, she is studying film and media directing at the Sapietia University in Cluj-Napoca and is employed at CNM Astra and is part of the organizing team of the Astra Film International Documentary Film Festival in Sibiu.
