Sentimental Education

Alma Buhagiar (b. 1998, Bucharest) studied film directing at U.N.A.T.C "I. L. Caragiale" Bucharest, and in 2022 she graduated from the same faculty with a master's degree. Her student films Algae (short fiction-experimental film), The Last Reverend  (short documentary film), Simple things (short experimental film) and Together (short fiction film) have been screened in several national and international film festivals, and won "Best Film" Award at the CinemaIubit Film Festival in 2020 (for Together), and "Cinematographic Hopes" Award (for The Last Reverend) at the Romanian Filmmakers Union Ceremony (UCIN), in the same year. In 2021 Alma won the "Gopo Young Hope" Award for the short film Together. She has participated in film workshops such as Sarajevo Talents, Let's go Digital and Film Plus, where she has had the opportunity to work on developing the scripts for her next films. She has exhibited video-installations at events such as The Night of Galleries in Bucharest, and SUPER. She is currently writing for her first feature film and is in pre-producing with two short films. Alma also works as an advertising director.