Teodora Ana Mihai : 2014
Georgiana Halmac turns 15 this winter. She lives with her six brothers and sisters in a social housing apartment on the outskirts of Bacău. Their mother Liliana was forced to leave her family behind to go to Turin, to earn money. She won't be back before summer. During their mother's absence, Georgiana has been catapulted into the role of head of the family, responsible for her siblings. Caught between puberty and responsibility, Georgiana moves ahead, improvising as she goes. Phone conversations with her mom are her only guidelines. Intimate scenes from the daily life of the seven siblings show us – in an uncensored, fly-on-the-wall style – how real events are experienced and interpreted with great imagination by the children. The girl doesn't lack determination but in the coming months she will have to contend with her brothers' and sisters' complicated personalities, as well as with the personal weaknesses lying in wait for her during this premature test of adulthood. Inspired by the director's own childhood when her parents left her in communist Romania for an entire year as they sought asylum in Belgium. She portrays both the specific lives and a more general story about Romania today where families are affected by economic, rather than political, issues. Teodora Ana Mihai's debut feature-length documentary was winner of the award for Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014.
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