- While trying to understand the underbelly of the graffiti and street art phenomenon in Romania, a young corporate employee discovers his true self. This is the first documentary about the Romanian graffiti and street art movement.
- Going through the most important moments of Romania's recent history, a corporate employee becomes a documentary film director and meets the most important representatives of the graffiti and street art phenomenon. The director turns into an active character and becomes the viewer's personal guide through the gullies of urban culture, experiencing the raw sensations that people who make graffiti and street artists have when they draw in the public space. In addition to a general subjective overview of the street art scene in Romania, the viewer is taken on a personal journey of a young man in search of his own voice. Each encounter with a graffiti artist or street artist adds a new layer to the personal uncertainty, whilst providing room for reconstruction. The archive materials serve the purpose of faithfully illustrating the atmosphere within the movement over the past 30 years. All the dimensions and traits of this subculture are explored in the movie - from the intervention on subways, trams, and trains, going to illegal actions on the streets, in the public space, or in abandoned places. Even though the film begins as an attempt to answer the question "Why do they write on walls?", the whole experience becomes intimate and adds an area of introspection. The way in which the random letters and drawings that we encounter every day in the public space impact each of us is addressed and special attention is given to the changes that can occur in us when we look with an open mind at those who are generally considered "vandals and thugs". In the end, the director decides to completely change his life, inspired and empowered by the people he encountered and the experiences he lived during the making of the documentary. From this point of view, the film is a coming-of-age story of a 35-year-old man.
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By what name was Why Do They Write on Walls? (2023) officially released in Canada in English?
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