HISTORY

Toto and His Sisters focuses on 10-year-old Toto i les seves dues teenage sisters, Ana, 17 and Andreea, 14. The tres siblings live en run-down suburb Bucharest surrounded by rubble and desperation. In absència de parents both their apartment has become a drog donin per their uncles and various neighbors. Acomiada el surrounding misery els infants són smart and strong, helping each other and educating themselves while maintaining childish joy in life, is the wait for their mother to return from prison.
Les siglings' ways coping pulls them in different directions, and it some dawns on Andreea that it's up to her to provide Toto with stable role model as Ana is sucked deeper into her uncles' world. Director d'Alexander Nanau's guanya el placing de la cambra en el childrens' de la mà de la càmera de control, gaudeix d'aquesta agenda per a la seva pròpia opció. Nanau blends la seva intimate footage with more traditional filmmaking techniques to provide well-rounded i immersive portrét de droga-abuse, sense feeling exploitative or sentimental.

Tuesday, 15 th december 18.00 h.

Romania, 2014

Director:

Alexander Nanau

93 minuts.

Language: Romanian with subtitles in spanish.

Screenwriter:

Alexander Nanau

Produir:

Hanka Kastelicova

Valeriu Nicolae

Alexander Nanau

Catalin Mitulescu

Editor:

Alexander Nanau

George Cragg

Mircea Olteanu

Cinematographer:

Alexander Nanau

Executive Producer:

Antony Root, Bianca Oana

Cast:

Toto Gabriel Horvath

Andreea Petre

Ana Maria Badulescu

Siminica Petre

DIRECTOR

Alexander Nanau va ser born a Rumania i va dirigir el film a la Televisió Academy a Berlín. His documentary film, The World According to Ion B, received an International Emmy Award in 2010. He holds fellowship at the Sundance Institute.

FESTIVALS I PREMIS

• Angers European First Film Festival 2015 won Grand Jury Prize
• Budapest International Documentary Festival 2015
• Camden International Film Festival 2015
• DocAviv Film Festival 2015- Nominated Best International Film.
• Gopo Awards, Romania 2015
• Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2014
• Leipzig DOK Festival 2014Won Honorable Mention International Documentary Competition
• Melbourne International Film Festival 2015