Nearly 40 filmmakers from the Republic of Moldova participated in the first short film festival in our country. Four of their creations, selected by the festival’s jury, were awarded professional Sony cameras.
Launched in October 2023 by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, the Association of Creative Companies of Moldova (COR) and USM’s Centre for Production and Technologies for Film, Gaming and New Media Industries, Mediacor, “One Minute Festival: On the Move” compiled theory with practice. For 2 weeks, all those who wanted to create a short film could sign up for courses and masterclasses with experts from the film and storytelling industry. In total, the filmmaking workshops brought together over 300 participants.
Festival topics focused on forced displacement, refugee stories, hope away from home in the social-political context of recent years. After the theoretical part, participants had a few months to create their films and register them for the competition.
On 5 April 2024, the closing event took place at Mediacor, where 49 short films were presented and the award ceremony for the four best short films according to the jury took place:
1st place: Ceban Dmitrii, “Interdiction”
2nd place: Nicolae Butuc, “Separation”
3rd place: Rotaru Liviu, “There will be everything”
With global forced displacement at a record high of over 108.4 million people, promoting inclusion and empathy is crucial and the creative industry has a key role to play as it can be a major driver of change. The One Minute: On the Move Festival has succeeded in giving voice to displaced people and refugee stories and creating a platform to facilitate the expression and exchange of ideas.
Read more:
About the festival: https://www.1minfilms.md/
About UNHCR Moldova: https://www.unhcr.org/md/
About Mediacor: https://www.mediacor.md/
About COR: http://cor.md/
For questions, please contact:
Monica Vazquez
UNHCR External Relations Officer
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
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