Shindy Music

Director: Andrei Teodorescu
Duration: 75 min
Year: 2017
Country: România

The movie follows three life stories from three different parts of Moldavia: Vaslui, Neamț and Botoșani. Giani (4 years old), Sebi (13 years old) and Raul (16 years old) are three children passionate about shindy music. Growing up in families of lăutari and facing the difficulties of rural life, they all want the same thing: to become successful musicians.
Just like a bitter-sweet symphonic composition, these are the stories of the three gypsy children who are growing up in villages from Vaslui, Neamț and Botoșani. Although they live in different areas, the children follow the same dream: they want to learn the virtuosity of playing traditional party music, to become successful musicians, rich enough to sustain their families and to offer them a future. The camera follows each one in their daily lives: at school, home with the family, playing and rehearsing, with their friends, trials and dreams, restoring tender and complex images of the way they spend their childhood in the sound of party music.

Director’s bio
Andrei- Nicolae Teodorescu (b. 1987) graduated from the Master’s programme of Movie Directing at the National University of Movie and Theatre I.L. Caragiale, from Bucharest. His short films and documentaries won numerous prizes and were screened at film festivals from all over the world (Cannes, Beijing, Stockholm, Istanbul, Boston, Chicago etc.) His movies have received by now 4 nominations at GOPO Awards. Shindy music documentary won Best Research in a Romanian documentary Award at Astra Film Festival 2017 and also UCIN Prize for the best Romanian documentary film of 2017.