Toma Enache

Toma Enache was born on November 1, 1970 in the Black Sea city of Constanta, Romania, to a family of Aromanian/Vlach emigrants. His grandparents were all born in Greece, his father was born in a village near Bitola, North Macedonia and his mother in Sofia, Bulgaria. The cultural particularities of his roots will later reflect on his artistic work in theatre and cinema. After five years of university studies he earned his bachelor's degree at the Theatre and Film Academy in Bucharest (1998) and then his master's in actor's art at the same university. He has staged successful plays performed hundreds of times in Romania and abroad. He made his debut in cinema with the film, I'm not famous but I'm Aromanian (2013), the first feature film in history spoken in the Aromanian/Vlach language. He then directed the documentary The Armans/Vlahs from the famous Manakia to I'm not famous , about the Manakia Brothers, of Aromanian/Vlach origin, the pioneers of the Balkan cinema, who shot the first scenes in the Balkans in 1905. He will launch a new film in 2019, Intre Chin si Amin / Between Pain and Amen, the first film about the Pitesti Experience, one of the most terrible experiments of re-education through torture in modern history, conducted by communists in Romania between 1949 and 1952.