Absent

2015 • Feature Film • Completed

Documentary

http://www.iconoclasticmedia.com/features/#/absent/

For over a hundred years, Mărculeşti was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-four years later, few speak clearly or honestly about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculeşti, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Working entirely on location, writer/director Matthew Mishory documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places. Produced by Sabin Dorohoi, Edward Singletary, Jr., and Randall Walk. A Romania-Switzerland-US co-production.