They Sleep Standing

Set against oneiric looking landscapes in Romania They Sleep Standing is a hybrid documentarystyle fictional film where time seems to be at a standstill Catherine Oana and Bogdan approaching their 30s are preoccupied with the future The languid summer mood set by filmmaker Bogdan Stoica shows his protagonists lingering between fragility and discovery and not having the answers to many of lifes uncertainties By keeping the spaces wide open to chance the encounters are unexpected and at times frivolous The outcome is a poetic film where we are left feeling that sometimes life is best appreciated in some of its more evasive and fleeting moments Programming Collective