Since joining the EU, Romanians can easily work abroad and take in high paying jobs leaving behind their traditional farming to do so. We follow a year in life of Albin, a teenage Romanian shepherd in northern Transylvania. He watches over his herd, cuts hay, makes cheese, cleans the sheep and especially tries to adapt to his ever-changing world. In this sensitive documentary, dramatic intensity is felt at every turn: from the selling of lambs, to the purchase of a car, and to the departure for Germany to earn a better salary.
Dieter Auner was born in 1970 in Romania. He has worked as a photographer on Irish and international productions and as camera operator and editor on short films before making his directorial debut with Leaving Transylvania. Off the Beaten Track, his second feature documentary, reveals an important human issue that is dear to him (his “lost” native country) and deals with human values in a modernizing shepherd community.
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