ACASA MY HOME - meadow image
ACASA MY HOME - meadow image
Acasa, My Home (2020)

ACMI and AIDC present

Acasa, My Home

Radu Ciorniciuc | Romania, Germany | 2020 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

This event has ended and tickets are no longer available.

Tickets

Full

$18

Concession

$14

Member

$12

When

Sun 7 Mar 2021

4pm

See below for additional related events

Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Cinematography at Sundance, Acasa, My Home intimately explores the internal and external pressures driving a large Romanian family out of nature and into the city.

The secret of this beautiful, bittersweet film about a group of people like no other is that, in the end, it's all so shockingly relatable.

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

Australian Premiere

For two decades, the Enache family has lived on the fringe of society in untouched wetlands next to Bucharest, in a rare urban ecosystem with flourishing biodiversity. Director and cinematographer Radu Ciorniciuc silently observes the combative patriarch Gica, his wife and their nine children as they are forced to reckon with social services and the local city council, who have different very plans for the family and the place they call home.

Observations of this thoroughly off-the-grid family are alternately idyllic (children fishing, playing and meandering through tall grass) and challenging (Gica often loudly berates his children, who all share their one room in their makeshift house), but their circumstances change suddenly when they are forced to move to the city and learn to conform to the rules of society. The children dream of returning to the family's now-bulldozed home by the lake – “This city isn’t good for us.”

Ciorniciuc, a veteran journalist, has built up such a level of trust with the Enache family that he allows us to be invisible spectators to incredibly raw moments over a period of great change. Over the course of the film, the family repeatedly clashes with authorities – some exchanges are heated, some are caring, but the filmmakers refuse to allow easy vilification on either side.

Acasa, My Home gently, and without judgement, probes complicated questions about who decides what is in the best interest of children, how the generational cycle of poverty disproportionately affects minorities; and whether development and 'civilisation' should happen at the expense of personal freedoms. Immersive sound design and sweeping cinematography illustrate the juxtaposition of bustling Bucharest next to what is now Văcărești Nature Park, however Ciorniciuc never loses sight of the family at the centre of all this chaos.

– Treise Armstrong, Film Programs Coordinator

Format: DCP
Language: In Romanian and English with English subtitles
Source: Autlook Filmsales
Courtesy: Autlook Filmsales
Runtime: 86 min

Event duration

86 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Children under the age of 15 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian

Multi-session discounts

3 sessions ($33–45)
6 sessions ($66–84)
Discounts applied to your cart at checkout

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

How to get there

Membership

Get discounted tickets, invitations to exclusive previews, and discounts in our shop and cafe bar.

Become a member

Non-Fiction 2021 program

There are no upcoming related events at this time.

Plan your visit

Read our COVID-safe visitor guidelines, information on accessibility, amenities, transport, dining options and more.

Start planning