Toma Enache – Director, Screenwriter, Producer

He made his cinema debut with the film I’m Not Famous, But I’m Aromanian (2013), the first feature film in history spoken in Aromanian. He then directed the documentary The Aromanians: From the Famous Manakia Brothers to I’m Not Famous… (2015), about the Manakia Brothers, of Aromanian origin, pioneers of Balkan cinematography.

His second feature film, Between Pain and Amen, was released in 2019 and is the first film about the Pitești Experiment, one of the most horrific re-education experiments through torture in modern history, carried out by the Communists in Romania between 1949 and 1952. His third feature film, Enescu, Skinned Alive, is a biographical film about the brilliant Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu, scheduled for release in November this year.
He has directed successful theater productions, performed in Romania and abroad, the most recent being Siciliana at the Romanian Playwrights Theater in Bucharest, The Perfect System, hosted by the National Theater in Bucharest and presented on tour throughout the country, Life is a Dream at the West Theater in Reșița, Amadeus at the National Athenaeum in Iași, and the poetry, music, and dance show Life is a Poem, hosted by the National Theater in Bucharest.