MAN AT WORK-part 2: SANDPIT #186 ( 20′, 2008, Adina Pintilie / George Chiper)
Romanian title: BALASTIERA #186
20 minutes, 35mm, 1:1.85, B&W, fiction, Romania
CAST :
Richard Bovnoczki
Gabriel Spahiu
CREW:
Director: Adina Pintilie/George Chiper
Scriptwriter: Adina Pintilie/George Chiper
Cinematography: George Chiper/ Iulian Nan
Editing/Sound Design: Vlad Voinescu
Set designer: Andrada Chiriac
Executive producer: Vlad Voinescu/ Adina Pintilie / George Chiper
Produced by: National University of Drama and Film Bucharest
Outskirts of an industrial city.
A deserted sandpit and its solitary tenant.
One day – an ordinary day -, in his empty concrete and iron world a stranger comes. Nothing seems to change.. but things are not the same anymore.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
“Balastiera #186″ is more a poem than a story about solitude and longing, about our essential need for the other and, yet, about the impossibility of real contact between people. Nevertheless, in our “disenchanted” world, this longing/search for the Other, what we call ”love” in any of its unexpected forms, seems to be our only way to access a possible ”divinity”, our onlyway to deny nothingness.
AWARDS – FESTIVALS
Locarno Film Festival 2008 – Here&Elsewhere/Author Shorts
Special Mention – Trieste International Film Festival 2009
Second Prize – Miami International Film Festival 2009
International Film Festival of Beijing Film Academy China 2008
Semana de Cine Exprimental de Madrid Spain 2008
Brasilian International Student Film Festival 2008
Warszaw International Film Festival 2007
Mediawave International Film Festival Hungary 2009
Sofia International Film festival – Best Balcan Shorts 2009
Kiev International Film Festival Molodist Ucraine 2008
Romanian Film Festival London 2008
Romanian Film Festival Toronto 2009
Critics Award – “Cinemaiubit” International Student Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania,2007
Best Film Award – Ffest Student Film Festival, Romania, 2007
Anonimul International Film Festival, Romania, 2007
Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania,2007
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