MY MUSLIM HUSBAND
Romania I 90 min
Directors: Daniel Barnuti and Alexandra Lizeta Barnuti
Producer: Daniel Barnuti
Editor: Alex Popescu
Two Doc
LIZ gets married to DANIEL, a Romanian man converted Muslim. The two lovers come to understand that to find happiness, they will have to rise above the prejudices of everyone around them, including their own.
When Daniel, a Romanian man who chose to convert to Islam, and his girlfriend Alexandra decide to get married, hell unleashes on them. Suddenly, nothing seems to be the same as before. Their friends start avoiding or cutting all ties with the couple, leaving them isolated. Hoping to find peace, Daniel and Alexandra start traveling around the world to find a new home, but all seem to be in vain. Moreover, their own needs to be understood and accepted by the other partner lead to huge conflicts, leaving the two lovers confused and emotionally crushed.
Feeling lost in a world that doesn’t seem to understand or accept them, Daniel and Alexandra must now fight for each other and their relationship to survive. Even if that means leaving behind their old dreams and everyone they’ve ever loved.
ALEXANDRA LIZETA BARNUTI
ALEXANDRA LIZETA BARNUTI Was born in 1988 in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania - Romania. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations and has worked for various major Romanian companies in the fields of marketing and PR. Photography is one of her main passions and nowadays she is exploring documentary filmmaking. She is currently co-directing and starring in a personal documentary film project developed within the Master school Documentary Campus program
Director’s statement
If I was to find only one word which could describe the aesthetic the approach of this documentary, that word would be “transparent”. It's the the word which perfectly summarizes the two directing lines which I tried to follow, since the moment I started working on it. On the one hand, there is a certain rawness of it all. The camera can be very cruel sometimes and this is the case in many moments of this documentary. Using it not as an object, but as an invisible interlocutor who sees everything and gives it to the audience, the camera functions more like a therapist, than a device used for recording moments. It's intimate, intense, it doesn't try to cover up for anything, just shows everything as it really is, without judging. The second direction that comes with the word “transparent” is the personal one. “My Muslim Husband” was always intended to be a very personal film, and not just because, in this case, the directors and the characters are the same persons.
DANIEL BARNUTI
Daniel was born in 1981, in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania - Romania. He is a Law School graduate, having a Master in Documentary Film Directing at the Faculty of Theatre and Television in Cluj-Napoca and previous working for major Romanian TV broadcasters.Nowadays, Daniel is working as a film director and producer for his own production house - Two Doc. As a documentary filmmaker, his main theme of interest is spiritual journey and food.
Where are we at?
Production budget: 260.000,00 EUR
Needed for completion: 160.000,00 EUR
Territories: MENA Region, USA, Asia, Australia, Germany, France,
Expected release: 1.4.2023.
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Production company profile
Two Doc is mobile photography, video, and film production studio. We are specialized in documentary and commercial filmmaking, as well as in photo production, and offer a wide range of services, from product photography (for example e-commerce) to art or creative photography or music videos, journalistic footage, or documentary films.