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I WANT TO SMASH THE GREENHOUSE

Teona Galgoțiu
Romania, 2022
21 min.

Sara is confronted by the first signs of a disease she inherited from her father, which, in its final stage, will turn their bodies into plants. Sara needs a major change. But, before that, she has to try to get rid of the violent memories from her childhood, so she visits her bedridden father and tells him everything she couldn’t tell him until now.

Cinema’s wariness of the split screen is impossible to understand. Painting, for example, has embraced it since primitive times, ever since two different drawings were made side by side. It was also then that artistic montage was born, which cinema linearized once it decided it wanted to be perceived narratively, and not plastically. Teona Galgotiu understood that this rare way of making cinema is not related to the simple fragmentation of the image but to the expansion of everything that can be inside an image. Thus, this abrupt coming-of-age story about humans transforming into plants translates ecological fantasy into visual poetry, as time and space remain unconstrained. (Călin Boto)

DATE & LOCATION

Friday 29th of September | 21:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Premii și festivaluri

Teona Galgoțiu

Teona Galgoțiu is a film director and writer. The festivals she has participated in, short film competition or seminars, include Sarajevo Film Festival, Oberhausen International Film Festival, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. Her texts have been published in anthologies and online publications such as Zona Nouă, Dragă Virginia, Subcapitol, Lighthouse Literary Journal. She has been part of the organising team of the Super Festival since 2014, whose main focus is the education of teenagers through art, and is the founder of the Gura Mare platform, dedicated to exploring poetry through interdisciplinary projects. In 2020 she debuted with the poetry volume “I look back and it’s gone” at OMG Publishing (Iustin Panța Debut Award, ARCCA Poetry Book of the Year).

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • CAST: Ioana Bugarin, Valentin Popescu, Ana Covalciuc, Vlad Galer, Diana Gheorghian, Anda Saltelechi
  • SCREENWRITER: Teona Galgoțiu, Mircea Andrei Florea
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Bogdan Marinescu
  • EDITOR: Alexandra Diaconu
  • SOUND: Flora Pop
  • PRODUCTION DESIGN: Ileana Zirra
  • MUSIC: Kadjavsi
  • PRODUCED BY: UNATC
  • PRODUCERS: Ioana Bogdana, Andra Gheorghiu

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