Off The Beaten Track

Off The Beaten Track chronicles a world, untouched for centuries, struggling with profound change. Since joining the EU, Romanians have been free to work as agricultural labourers and can earn more in one month than a year in their traditional occupation as shepherds. The films follows Albin, a teenage shepherd from a remote village in Northern Transylvania, over the course of a year as he makes his way through the ever-changing environment where traditions and the slow pace of the shepherds' routines are gradually being replaced by modern values. The film reflects on a year of change in the village where modernity causes clashes between generations and asks, what are quality of life, progress and prosperity?