Sisters of the Union

Runtime: 90'

Expected release: January 2027

Production stage: Post-Production

Budget: $296,637 (89% in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents / Distributors, Buyers, Gap Financing

Synopsis:

Sisters of the Union is a fantastical autobiographical documentary about my family’s life during Communism in Romania. The story is told through the voices and challenging shifts of five women that each come to symbolize various eras from the rise to the decline of the Union.

Director’s Profile:

Dan Popa is a Canadian filmmaker of Romanian origin. Popa graduated in film production from Concordia University. In his work, we find new explorations, as much in the narrative form as in the aesthetic treatment of the image. Always in search of crafting a contemporary cinema voice, his filmmaking process draws inspiration from various visual languages.
He directed several short films which won awards in Canada and at several international film festivals. His most recent immersive Installation project Partitions for Aquamarine is in dialogue with Symphony in Aquamarine (2018), his first feature film. These two works offer a poetic exploration of human nature in the face of its world in transition.

Producer’s Profile:

Line Sander Egede, originally from Copenhagen and based in Montreal since 2015, began producing films in Denmark in 2010. She founded TAK Films in 2018, producing works such as Vacarme (2020) by Neegan Trudel and Gabor (2021) by Joannie Lafrenière, focusing on auteur-driven fiction and documentaries with strong social and artistic ambition. From 2021 to 2024, she was a partner at production company Art et Essai and, among other projects, produced Ariane Louis-Seize’s Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023), which premiered in Venice and Toronto and was sold to over 70 territories.