Riverside Stories

Riverside Stories comprises four short films and a music video exploring the multifaceted ways in which people interact with the river. The omnibus’s themes center on a single waterway, the Someș in the Cluj area, ranging from the passage of time and the river’s flow, occasionally marred by debris, to waterfront real estate developments, ghettos on crumbling embankments, and the lush gardens or biodiversity of the green-blue corridor.

This 54-minute documentary is the first non-fiction omnibus in Romanian cinema, the result of a collaboration between four directors — Adi Dohotaru, Mihai Dragolea, Radu Gaciu, and Gábor-Gáspár Kalamár — plus musician Danaga and the protagonists they encounter along the way.