Written/Unwritten
Romania2017fiction20'Short matters! krótkie filmy roku (2018)
At a maternity ward, a Roma family is told that their underage daughter has just had a baby girl. Pardică (50) doesn’t seem to celebrate the moment; he is very displeased with his daughter's early motherhood, for which he blames his wife. However, the situation becomes even more tense when a hospital employee discovers that there is an issue with their IDs and their status of parents of the young mother. The imminent threat of the authorities separating them from their daughter forces Pardică to take action. Tampere Short Film Nominee.
- directed by
- Adrian Silisteanu
Adrian Silișteanu was born in Bacău, Romania, in March 5th, 1975 and he graduated Cinematography in Bucharest. Studying also Digital Cinematography at National Audiovisual Institute in Paris, he worked for a short period as Digital Imaging Technician. Romanian Director Adrian Sitaru’s debut film “Hooked” was also Silișteanu’s first film as Director of Photography. He shot all of Sitaru's features, “Best Intentions” “Domestic”, “Illegitimate”, “Fixeur”, and his shorts “Waves”, “The Cage”, “Lord”, “House Party”, “Excursion” and “Art”. He worked with the well known Romanian theatre director Silviu Purcărete for his first motion picture “Somewhere in Palilula” and he was cinematographer for the 2 seasons of Romanian version of HBO TV series “In treatment”. He also filmed many other movies including the feature films “Ho-ho-ho” (r: Jesus del Cerro) and “The worthy” (r: Ali Mostafa) and the EFA awarded short “Superman, Spiderman or Batman” (r: Tudor Giurgiu).
- cinematography
- Adrian Silișteanu
- script
- Claudia Silișteanu
- cast
- Sorin Mihai, Elena Ursaru, Alina Șerban
- sound
- Ioan Filip
- editing
- Costi Zaharia, Mircea Olteanu
- production
- Anamaria Antoci, Adrian Silișteanu
- Photo
