• Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Alina Grigore
  • Romania 2021
  • 84 minutes
  • Romanian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Irina lives with her family in a rural area in Romania. The father has left for London, she shares her home with her mother, sister and her mother’s extended, dysfunctional family. But still she clings to her dreams - to be free of her cousins’ stronghold, to study in Bucharest, and most of all, to find love. One party and the morning after will change her world.

Alina Grigore’s feature debut comes to Haifa directly from its world premiere at the San Sebastian festival. Grigore started researching the topic for the gripping psychological drama more than a decade ago, when she wrote short stories exploring the challenges faced by young Romanian women in rural areas.

Feature Debut

 

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  • Director Alina Grigore
  • Production Robi Urs, Gabi Suciu
  • Script Alina Grigore
  • Cinematography Adrian Paduretu
  • Editing Mircea Olteanu
  • Festivals San Sebastian
  • Actors Ioana Chitu, Mircea Postelnicu, Mircea Silaghi, Vlad Ivanov
  • Source Patra Spanou Film, Düsseldorf