Waiting For August

14.04.2014

BACAU - Georgiana Halmac, the eldest daughter in her family, turns fifteen this winter. She lives with her six siblings in a social housing flat on the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. Her mother Liliana, an economic migrant in Turin, will not return until the summer.

In her mother's absence, Georgiana is catapulted into the role of new head of the family. Her adolescence is brutally cut short as she becomes responsible for her brothers and sisters. Caught between adolescence and responsibility, she improvises. Telephone conversations with her mother and the conflicting values of religion on the one hand and commercial television on the other are her only guides. Intimate scenes from the daily life of Georgiana and her siblings show us - uncensored, fly-on-the-wall style - how real events are experienced and interpreted with great imagination by these children. You will be amazed at their ingenuity, but also realise how fragile their daily balance is.

Supported

€6,000 allocated on 11/07/2012

ID:

FPD/2012/963

Themes

Links

Facebook page Clin d'oeil Films

Publication

Waiting for August (Canvas, 6 september 2015)
The movie: waitingforaugust.be
About: A Romanian Family, on Its Own, The New York TImes, 10/10/2014

Awards and honorary mention

Hot Docs 2014, Canada – Best International Feature Documentary
Karlovy Vary International Film festival 2014, Czech Republic – Best Long Documentary
Vision du Réel 2014, Switzerland – Honorary Mention
Dokufest Kosovo – Balkan Best Newcomer
Bergen International Film Festival, Norway – Best International Documentary
Astra Film Festival, Romania – Best Documentary in the Romanian competition
Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland – Environmental Award, category «A Different Tomorrow»
Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Australia – SBS Award for Best International Documentary
Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary – Best Documentary, category « Let them be Children »
Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile – Best International Film Award
Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia – Special Mention
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, USA – Best International Feature Documentary

Festival screenings

Vision Du Réel (March 2014)
Hot Docs (April 2014)
Moscow International Film Festival (June 2014)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (August 2014)
Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival (August 2014)
Dokufest Kosovo (August 2014)
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam Summer (August 2014)
Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (September 2014)
DMZ International Korean Filmfestival (September 2014)
Calgary Filmfestival (September 2014)
Budapest International Documentary Festival (September 2014)
Bergen International Film Festival (September 2014)
Camden International Film Festival (September 2014)
Reykjavik International Filmfestival (September 2014)
Vancouver International Filmfestival (September 2014)
Astra Film Festival (October 2014)
Valdivia International Film Festival (October 2014)
BFI London Film Festival (October 2014)
Hot Springs Documentary Filmfestival (October 2014)
Antenna Documentary Festival (October 2014)
Mostra São Paolo (October 2014)
Ânûû-rû Âboro – Festival International du Cinéma des Peuples (October 2014)
Zagreb Film Festival (October 2014)
Film Fest Ghent (October 2014)
Inconvenient Film Litauen/Vilnius (October 2014)
Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival (November 2014)
Bozeman Doc Series (November 2014)
Cork Film Festival (November 2014)
International Film Festival Listapad (November 2014)
ZINEBI International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao (November 2014)
Jerusalem Anthropological Film Festival (November 2014)
Le mois du film documentaire (November 2014)
Enfances dans le monde – Festival de films documentaires à Paris (November 2014)
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (November 2014)
Regent Park Film Festival (November 2014)
Malatya International Film Festival (November 2014)
Torino Film Festival (November 2014)
Singapore International Film Festival (December 2014)
Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media Festival (December 2014)
International Film Festival IFF This Human World (December 2014)
Mirrors Of Romania Laak-NL (December 2014)
DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival (January-February 2015)
ReFrame Festival ((February 2015)
Göteborg International Film Festival (February 2015)
Punto Vista International Documentary Festival of Navarra (February 2015)
Tempo Stockholm (March 2015)
IBAFF Spain (March 2015)
Salem FF (March 2015)
Bergamo Filmmeeting ( (March 2015)
BUFF Malmo (March 2015)
Assen Cinema (March 2015)