Six full episodes of Mundi Romani, a documentary series co-produced by the Romedia Foundation and Duna Television with support from the OSI Roma Decade Matching Fund, are now available on this website.
Six full episodes of Mundi Romani, a documentary series co-produced by the Romedia Foundation and Duna Television with support from the OSI Roma Decade Matching Fund, are now available in the Video section of this website:
“Faces of Change” (2010) Part 1 | Part 2
This episode features interviews with ten exceptional Roma women from across Europe. It presents the issues they face not from the “victimized victims’” point of view but from that of responsible and active stakeholders who readily provide their own answers to questions raised by the situation of Roma in Europe today.
“The Last Days of Sulukule” (2009) Part 1 | Part 2
This episode was shot in November 2008, just before Istanbul’s old Roma neighborhood of Sulukule was finally destroyed. It provides a unique insight into Sulukule’s amazing music, its people and the disappearance of minority cultures under the power held by city developers and short-sighted public officials. At the crossroads between Europe and Asia, this is an all too common story of human suffering and cultural destruction.
“Trapped – The Forgotten Story of the Mitrovica Roma” (2008)
This award-winning episode was shot in 2007 in Kosovska-Mitrovica, where hundreds of Roma have lived in camps contaminated by lead since their homes and their lives were destroyed by returning Albanian refugees in 1999.
"Lashi Vita" (2008)
This episode was shot in Italy in 2008, after the November 2007 murder of an Italian woman by a Roma immigrant sparked an unprecedented wave of anti-Roma hate speech, xenophobic policies and racially-motivated violence against Roma. In "Lashi Vita," the Mundi Romani crew travels through Italy interviewing representatives of the authorities, human rights activists, religious figures and everyday people.
"Ukraine: School Segregation" (2008)
This episode, shot in the ethnically-mixed Transcarpathian town of Uzhgorod, provides insight into the life of Roma in Ukraine as well as into the complex social mechanisms that allow tens of thousands of children across Central and Eastern European to be denied quality education on account of their ethnic origins.
"Granada: The Maya Family" (2007)
This is the last film shot with Mario Maya, the world’s most innovative and influential flamenco dancer and choeographer. Mundi Romani travels to Granada in Andalusia to discover the amazing world of the Gitanos, Spanish Roma, through the unique story of the Maya family.