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6th DMZ Docs(2014)

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Waiting for August

Teodora Ana MIHAI

  • Belgium
  • 2014
  • 88min
  • DCP
  • color

Synopsis

Georgiana HALMAC, eldest daughter of her family, is turning fifteen this winter. She lives with her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau (Romania). Their mother Liliana, an economic migrant in Torino, will not be back till the summer. During mother¡¯s absence, Georgiana is catapulted to the role of new head of the family. Her adolescence is brutally cut short, when she becomes responsible for her brothers and sisters. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, she moves ahead improvising. Phone conversations with her mom are her only guidelines. Intimate scenes from the daily life of Georgiana and her siblings will show us—uncensored, in fly-on-the-wall style— how real events are experienced and interpreted with great imagination by these children. One is bound to be amazed by their great ingenuity, while also realizing how fragile their daily balance is.

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Director

  • Teodora Ana MIHAI

    Born in Bucharest. She completed the two last years of high school in San Francisco and started with a film and video workshops and became a true passion for the Seventh Art. Upon returning to Belgium, she first started working in the industry as a script supervisor and assistant director. After directing the award winning documentary Waiting for August, she is now developing a docufiction film about teenage orphans of the Mexican drug war, in collaboration with the Mexican writer, Habacuc Antonio de ROSARIO. Waiting for August (2014)​ 

Credit

  • ProducerHanne PHLYPO, Antoine VERMEESCH
  • Cinematography Joachim PHILIPPE
  • Editor Michèle HUBINON
  • Music Karim BAGGILI
  • Sound Frédéric MEERT

Production / World Sales

Production   Clin d¡¯oeil

Tel  32 484 974 442

E-mail  info@clindoeilfilms.be​ 

World Sales   Rise And Shine

Tel  49 30 4737 298 0

E-mail  info@riseandshine-berlin.de​