Off the Beaten Track (2012)

The film, written and directed by director Dieter Auner, is an 87-minute creative Romanian documentary about the one-year life of Shepherd Abin and his family living in northern Transylvania. In terms of film style, the documentary follows the family's daily routines to document their struggle to adapt to a new world where traditional values are gradually replaced by modern values. Like many Eastern European countries, since joining the European Union, Romania has been faced with many problems, such as the heavy pressure to accept modern values and the need to make farmers understand the cruel concept of competition. The temptation of high wages abroad for the whole of Romania and the contradictions caused by the marginalization of local agricultural products and the development of industrial products. One year in the life of Albin and his family of shepherds in the North of Transylvania. In direct cinema style, this...