VANATOARE
Alexandra Balteanu
Lidia, Denisa and Vanessa, three women with three destinies. But one thing unites them: in order to cope with their essential but also quite mundane problems of their bleak everyday life, the women prostitute themselves on a feeder road to Bucharest. Without an iota of voyeurism and yet relentlessly, the young director tells about the scanty expectations of the Romanian women. Driven by the hope of a better life, they stoically continue and refuse to be intimidated not even by the police. In the midst of utter dreariness all that they are left with is a ride home and some ice cream.
*ALEXANDRA BALTEANU* has received the coveted *MAX-OPHÜLS-PRIZE* twice this year for its realistic depiction of Romanian suburban reality. The jury praised her _"directorial performance as honest, accurate, dramatic, funny, and unerringly credible."_
The production was realised at the *DEUTSCHE FILM- UND FERNSEHAKADEMIE BERLIN* and is part of the *NEW SERIES, ZUKUNFT DES DEUTSCHEN FILMS* [future of the German film] at the LICHTER Filmfest 2017.
30. March 2017
20:00 h, Kino des DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
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Regie | Alexandra Balteanu |
Year | ROU/D 2016 |
Category | Zukunft Deutscher Film |
Duration | 75 min |
Language | Roman. OV with English subs. |
Produktion | Stanislav Danylyshyn |
Camera | Matan Radin |
Script | Xandra Popescu, Alexandra Balteanu |
Schnitt | Antonella Sarubbi |
Presented by:
Future German Cinema