Acasa,My Home. (Photo: Ana Ciocolatescu) While the majority of the 4th Annual THAW Fest will take place digitally, the month-long Hamptons Art Network festival is still offering a wide array of engaging, entertaining events.
Week one kicked off with a Bay Street Family Skating Party on Sunday, March 7 and DIA Art presents A Conversation with Jill Magid and Nick Fox Weber on Tuesday, March 9.
Next, Hamptons Doc Fest will host a weeklong virtual screening and Q&A of Radu Ciorniciuc s
Acasa, My Home from Thursday, March 11 through Thursday, March 18. You wouldn t think that this would be a golden year for non-fiction films given life s other pressing realities. But it has. It is testimony to the power of great storytelling in which a filmmaker disappears inside the place and characters he finds, Jacqui Lofaro, Hamptons Doc Fest Founder and Executive Director, said.
Hamptons Doc Fest “Acasa, My Home” As Part Of THAW FEST 1 Photo
A scene from the Romanian documentary Acasa, My Home.
Staff Writer on Mar 8, 2021
As part of THAW FEST, the Hamptons Arts Network’s (HAN) series of March offerings by its 21 member arts institutions, Hamptons Doc Fest will be presenting the documentary “Acasa, My Home,” for five days, from Thursday, March 11 to Monday, March 15.
Set in Bucharest, Romania, “Acasa, My Home” (2020, 86 min.), directed by Radu Ciorniciuc, tells the story of a family of two adults and nine children that is moved from a life of harmony with nature, living an unconventional life in a humble dwelling in the wilds of the Vacaresti Delta, to a city apartment with the conveniences of a bathroom and washing machine, so that the land and its rare flora and fauna can be made into Vacaresti Nature Park, and the children can be enrolled in school. The move requires many adjustments for the family.