Gadjo Dilo

In Gadjo Dilo, Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom), who is French, Algerian-born, with Roma roots, details the preconceptions and prejudices of both Europeans and the Romani “other.” After his father’s death, a young Frenchman travels to Romania, seeking the folk singer recorded on a cassette his father repeatedly played in his last days. He ends up in a small Romani village, where he is dubbed the Gadjo Dilo or Crazy Outsider, mistrusted by the locals. He becomes immersed in the music and language—and with a local woman—and when tensions build between Romanians and Romani,he views the conflict with an insider’s perspective.