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Grand Format: La Cité des Roms
Prize-winner 2010
European CIVIS Television Prize – information
Author: | Frédéric Castaignède |
Editorial: | Pierrette Ominetti |
Direction: | Frédéric Castaignède |
Content
20,000 Roma live in the ghetto of Nadejda behind a big wall made of concrete, separated from the rest of the population of the small Bulgarian town of Sliven. A local NGO is campaigning against the racial segregation in the school and the everyday discrimination of the Roma. Also in the local elections – in which all candidates try to buy the votes of the Roma. The film shows the daily ignorance and the precarious situation in Sliven – but also the celebrations and rites of an old family culture.
Photo credits
Header: iStockphoto / CreVis2