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Still from the 2019 short film Undeva în Moldova: a woman in a red patterned headscarf and sheepskin coat smiles as a young man tucks her hair back; they lean on the railing of a wrought-iron gazebo among bare winter trees.

In development

Somewhere in Moldova

A fiction series set around 2007, when Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union and its border moved east.

Format
TV series
Status
In development

The project

A fiction series in development, set around 2007, when Romania and Bulgaria entered the European Union. Its stories cross borders and follow people dealing with migration and questions of identity on the edge of a Europe in flux.

The stills on this page come from Ligia Ciornei’s 2019 short film Undeva în Moldova, a comedy set in 2007, in which an English border policeman comes to work with the Romanian Border Police and ends up searching for a Catholic priest suspected of smuggling cigarettes.

Historical setting
Romania and Bulgaria entered the EU together on January 1, 2007.
The 2019 short
Undeva în Moldova was written, directed, and produced by Ligia Ciornei at UNATC in Bucharest, with Isabela Neamțu in the cast.

Stills

Stills from the 2019 short film Undeva în Moldova, written and directed by Ligia Ciornei

Partners

Somewhere in Moldova is in development. Broadcasters and co-producers interested in the series can contact Noetic Ark.