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A female voice is haunting a male gaze. An archival documentary about three men making images of women, in Romania, from WW II until the Revolution: an engineer filming his daughter, a music professor documenting his family and an aristocrat capturing the summer spent with his wife during wartime. These stories are linked and told by a questioning female narrator whose obsession with the figure of Alexandru P. gets out of hand. Through an obsessive portrait of an obsessive person, the film paints a picture of a country in the era of totalitarianism and the everyday gestures of escaping it.
Ana Lungu was born in 1978 in Romania. She studied Psychology and Film Directing and went on to work as a script supervisor for Cristi Puiu’s THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU (2004). In 2010, together with Ana Szel, she directed THE BELLY OF THE WHALE, selected in Locarno's Filmmakers of the Present. Her debut feature SELF-PORTRAIT OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER (2015) premiered at Rotterdam IFF and her second feature ONE AND A HALF PRINCE (2018) premiered in competition at Sarajevo FF. Her latest work MERMAN (2024) was selected in competition at FID Marseille.
Festivals
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Nominee - Grand Prix - International CompetitionFestival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille) 2024 Mareille, France
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Nominee - Romanian CompetitionAstra Film Festival - 2024 Sibiu, Romania
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NomineeSemaine de la critique de Montréal - 2025 Montréal, Canada
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Winner - Best Valorisation of Private Archival MaterialsArchivio Aperto - 2024 Bologna, Italy
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Winner - FIPRESCI PrizeTransylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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NomineeBucharest International Experimental Film Festival (bieff) Bucharest, Romania
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DirectorAna Lungu
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WritersDane Komljen Ana Lungu
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ProducerAdrian SItaru Ana Lungu
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Executive ProducersIoana Drăghici Irena Isbăsescu
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EditingDane Komljen
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Sound MixerFilip Mureșan
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Foley ArtistAleksandra Stojanovic
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Sound designerVlad Voinescu
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Post-Production CoordinatorIriana Adnana
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On-line EditorAndrei Armășelu Alex Stoica
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Image ProcessingDobrica Lospa
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ColoristCătălin Miloiu
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Color Grading SupervisorMarius Panduru
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Technical SupervisorSebastian Plămădeală
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Assitant EditorAndrei Pop
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ConsultantDana Bunescu Mona Nicoară
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Poster DesignerCaspar Newbolt
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Digitization of Slides and Old PhotosCezar Popescu
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Translation and SubtitlingAnca Bărbulescu
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Running Time85 min
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Aspect Ratio4:3