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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.

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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.

Awards+
Festivals
  • Nominee - Grand Prix - International Competition
    Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (FIDMarseille) 2024 Mareille, France
  • Nominee - Romanian Competition
    Astra Film Festival - 2024 Sibiu, Romania
  • Nominee
    Semaine de la critique de Montréal - 2025 Montréal, Canada
  • Winner - Best Valorisation of Private Archival Materials
    Archivio Aperto - 2024 Bologna, Italy
  • Winner - FIPRESCI Prize
    Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • Nominee
    Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (bieff) Bucharest, Romania
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team
  • Director
    Ana Lungu
  • Writers
    Dane Komljen Ana Lungu
  • Producer
    Adrian SItaru Ana Lungu
  • Executive Producers
    Ioana Drăghici Irena Isbăsescu
  • Editing
    Dane Komljen
  • Sound Mixer
    Filip Mureșan
  • Foley Artist
    Aleksandra Stojanovic
  • Sound designer
    Vlad Voinescu
  • Post-Production Coordinator
    Iriana Adnana
  • On-line Editor
    Andrei Armășelu Alex Stoica
  • Image Processing
    Dobrica Lospa
  • Colorist
    Cătălin Miloiu
  • Color Grading Supervisor
    Marius Panduru
  • Technical Supervisor
    Sebastian Plămădeală
  • Assitant Editor
    Andrei Pop
  • Consultant
    Dana Bunescu Mona Nicoară
  • Poster Designer
    Caspar Newbolt
  • Digitization of Slides and Old Photos
    Cezar Popescu
  • Translation and Subtitling
    Anca Bărbulescu
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  • Running Time
    85 min
  • Aspect Ratio
    4:3