FLORIN IEPAN
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DOK LEIPZIG 2005: Showing Good Films Is Not Enough
Traditionally, the Leipzig festival was the main doc festival for Eastern Europe, so when the Wall fell in 1989, the festival endured some difficult years.
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Banned abortion and contraception in Romania and created a “lost generation”
Filmmaker Florin Iepan and an estimated two million others of his generation, now in their 20s and 30s, came into this world only thanks to Nicolae Ceausescu and his Decree 770 prohibiting abortion and contraception.
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A TROUBLED GAZE
It was midday in April 1999, and I was sitting next to Adriek in the viewing room of IDFA showing her a bunch of Romanian documentaries produced after 1989.