DocTalk East Europeans in West

Cast: Cătălin Striblea (journalist Europa FM)
Duration: 2h 24m

The former Iron Curtain continues to divide Europe between the poor East and the wealthy West. The large wage differences between the two Europes explain the economic migration of millions of Eastern Europeans; as a result, cheap Eastern European labor contributes, year after year, to the prosperity of the West. However, this does not explain the extreme experiences of those who leave their country in search of a slightly better paid jobs and/or better working conditions or a better social environment. The debate, which will expose important but less well known aspects of this phenomenon, is based on the realities portrayed in three festival films and the photo exhibition Seasonal Workers (by Cosmin Bumbuț and Elena Stancu).