Friend or foe? Security or danger? Individual or prejudice? – We make decisions at lightning speed in our everyday lives. What made sense in evolutionary terms nowadays mainly serves existing clichés. And Sinti:zze and Rom:nja feel this every day: they are expected to be musically gifted nomads or dancing spirited foreigners. But what if reality differs from the traditional image? And what if it doesn’t? Do I make music just because it is expected of me? Am I still part of my community if I can’t dance? And what does it mean to belong to one of the most unpopular minorities in Europe AND to the majority society?
Together with Sinti:izze and Rom:nja from Hungary and Germany, director and Sinto Stefan Herrmann questions how identity is created: internally or externally? And how does ‘belonging’ come about? With the Hungarian dance group ‘Romano Glaszo’, he tells of marginalisation and years of self-discovery. Of the severe traumas that the Pojramos – the Romani word for the Holocaust of the Sinti and Roma – has anchored in families, generation after generation.
With the ensemble of the Hungarian dance group ‘Romano Glaszo’, he asks: How can one’s own identity become visible in a world full of prejudice? And what price am I prepared to pay for my struggle against oppression?
