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Waiting for august

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Teodora Ana Mihai

Georgiana Halmac, eldest daughter of her family, is turning fifteen this winter. She lives with hersix siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau (Romania). Their mother Liliana, aneconomic migrant in Torino, will not be back till the summer. During mother’s absence, Georgianais catapulted to the role of new head of the family. Her adolescence is brutally cut short, when shebecomes responsible for her brothers and sisters. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, shemoves ahead improvising. Phone conversations with her mom are her only guidelines. Intimatescenes from the daily life of Georgiana and her siblings will show us—uncensored, in fly-on-thewallstyle— how real events are experienced and interpreted with great imagination by thesechildren. One is bound to be amazed by their great ingenuity, while also realizing how fragile theirdaily balance is.

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