DON’T GET ME WRONG
(50′, 2007, by Adina Pintilie)
Somewhere, sometime.. a world in which time runs the same as stones are falling implacably on stones..
A self sufficient universe, with rules that escape the common logic, and, even though, perfectly valid.
Days go by, between daily routine and endless conversations about life, death, God, weather forecast: what is divine and what is not? who brings and who stops the rain?.. after all, what is normal and what is not?..
On the fragile, impossible to distinguish border between fiction and documentary, in a contemplative and visually refined way, the film follows the existence of a marginal community that has a profound and unaltered human value although it is considered “null” from a social utilitarian point of view.
Apparently absurd actions get a second meaning, deeply emotional – the only way to escape the essential absurdity of the existence is love.
FESTIVALS – AWARDS
Locarno Film Festival 2007-Filmmakers of the Present Competition
Golden Dove Best Documentary Award – Dok Leipzig 2007
IDFA Amsterdam 2007 – Best of Fests
Best Woman Director Award – International Film Festival of Contemporary Cinema Mexico 2008
Montpellier International Film Festival 2007
Namur International Film Festival 2007
Warsaw International Film Festival 2007
Trieste Alpe Adria International Film Festival 2008
Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2008
Dokfest Munchen 2008
Moscow International Film Festival 2008
Sarajevo International Film Festival 2008
Best Documentary Award, Vukovar International Film Festival, Croatia 2008
Special Mention of the Jury in Watch Docs Human Rights
International Film Festival Warszaw 2008
Best Film Award at Dialektus Documentary Film Festival Hungary 2008
Second Award in Health International Film Festival Greece 2009
IndieLisboa International Film Festival Portugal 2008
Docupolis International Film Festival Barcelona 2008
Documenta Madrid, Spain 2008
Huesca International Film Festival Spain 2008
Kracow International film Festival 2008
Best Cinematography Award – Romanian/Hungarian
Documentary Film Festival 2008
Best Director Award-Cronograf Documentary Film Festival Moldova 2008
Camerimage Lodz International Cinematography Film Festival 2008
South by South West International Film Festival USA 2008
Full Frame International Documentary Film Festival USA 2008
Koln International Women Film Festival 2008
Leeds International Film Festival UK 2008
Dokumentart European Film Festival Neubrandenburg Germany 2008
Valdivia International Film Festival Chile 2008
Stockholm International Documentary Film Festival Tempo 2007 Sweden
PlaneteDoc Review International Documentary Film Festival Warszaw Poland 2008
Play Doc International Film Festival Spain 2008
Estoril International Film Festival Portugal 2008
International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Verzio Hungary 2008
Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival Cyprus 2008
Bodrum International Film Festival Turkey 2008
Romanian Film Festival New York 2008
Romanian Documentary Days Krakow 2008
Romanian Film Festival Toronto 2009
Romanian Film Festival Madison USA 2009
Romanian Film Days Italy 2007
Algerian National Film Festival 2010
Chennai International Women Film Festival India 2010
Best Film Award in Aristoteles Workshop Romania 2006
Gopo Awards nomination for Best documentary 2008
Prometheus Awards Nomination for Debut 2008
Transilvania International Film Festival 2007One World Human Rights International Film Festival Bucharest 2008
Crew:
Director/Scriptwriter: Adina Pintilie
Director of photography: Sorin Gociu
Editing/Sound: Ligia Smarandache/ Tudor Petre
Script consultant: Rafi Pitts
Executive producer: Dan Nutu/ Adina Pintilie
Produced by Aristoteles Workshop
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