- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Romania
Pintilie Adina
Don't Get Me Wrong
Somewhere, sometime... a world in which time runs the same as stones falling implacably on stones. A self-sufficient universe, with rules that escape the common logic but are perfectly valid. Days go by, between daily routine and endless conversations about life, death, God, and weather forecasts. What is divine and what is not? Who brings and who stops the rain? After all, what is normal and what is not? On the fragile and impossible to distinguish border between fiction and documentary, in a contemplative and visually refined way, the film follows the existence of a marginal community that has a profound and unaltered human value, though it's considered "null" from a social utilitarian point of view. Blatantly absurd actions get a second meaning which is deeply emotional. The only way to escape the essential absurdity of this existence is through love.
24 Buckets, 7 Mice, 18 Years
A unique way of life repeating itself every day has slowly transformed Imre and Piroska into a sort of museum exhibits. In a quiet and isolated world we meet a couple whose existence begins to depend on the interaction with a different world and the absurd within. Their line of work turned them into a sort of local attraction, and vacationing foreigners are brought to see “the bears” and photograph themselves with them. It seems as if nothing could alter their daily routine. Neither the intruders, nor the hard work they’re doing. The only unknown factor is the lottery which they ardently keep track of on their radio, and their whole life gravitates around numbers.
Somewhere, sometime... a world in which time runs the same as stones falling implacably on stones. A self-sufficient universe, with rules that escape the common logic but are perfectly valid. Days go by, between daily routine and endless conversations about life, death, God, and weather forecasts. What is divine and what is not? Who brings and who stops the rain? After all, what is normal and what is not? On the fragile and impossible to distinguish border between fiction and documentary, in a contemplative and visually refined way, the film follows the existence of a marginal community that has a profound and unaltered human value, though it's considered "null" from a social utilitarian point of view. Blatantly absurd actions get a second meaning which is deeply emotional. The only way to escape the essential absurdity of this existence is through love.
24 Buckets, 7 Mice, 18 Years
A unique way of life repeating itself every day has slowly transformed Imre and Piroska into a sort of museum exhibits. In a quiet and isolated world we meet a couple whose existence begins to depend on the interaction with a different world and the absurd within. Their line of work turned them into a sort of local attraction, and vacationing foreigners are brought to see “the bears” and photograph themselves with them. It seems as if nothing could alter their daily routine. Neither the intruders, nor the hard work they’re doing. The only unknown factor is the lottery which they ardently keep track of on their radio, and their whole life gravitates around numbers.
Adina Pintilie graduated in 2008 from the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest-Directing Department. Her medium length DON’T GET ME WRONG (supported by ARTE France,Romanian CNC& Romanian National TV), premiered in Locarno IFF-Filmmakers of the Present Competition, included in IDFA 2007- Best of Fests, awarded Golden Dove Best Documentary Award at DOK LEIPZIG 2007, selected/awarded in 50 international film festivals like: Thessaloniki, Montpellier, Trieste, Namur, Munchen, Moscow, Sarajevo, Warszaw, Krakow etc. Her last medium length OXYGEN premiered in Rotterdam IFF 2010 Competition and screened in BAFICI, Montpellier, Thessaloniki, Tampere, Bilbao, Warszaw etc. Her last short SANDPIT#186(co-director George Chiper) was selected in Locarno 2008-Author’s Shorts and won the Runner Up Award in Miami IFF and Special Mention in Trieste IFF.TOUCH ME NOT– to be her first feature- received ARTE France Cinema Award for the most promising project in Cinemart 2011 and was selected in Binger Filmlab Amsterdam 2010/2011 (both Writers and Directors Lab) and in Torino Filmlab Framework 2011.
Her medium length DON’T GET ME WRONG (supported by ARTE France,Romanian CNC& Romanian National TV), premiered in Locarno IFF-Filmmakers of the Present Competition, included in IDFA 2007- Best of Fests, awarded Golden Dove Best Documentary Award at DOK LEIPZIG 2007, selected/awarded in 50 international film festivals like: Thessaloniki, Montpellier, Trieste, Namur, Munchen, Moscow, Sarajevo, Warszaw, Krakow etc. Her last medium length OXYGEN premiered in Rotterdam IFF 2010 Competition and screened in BAFICI, Montpellier, Thessaloniki, Tampere, Bilbao, Warszaw etc. Her last short SANDPIT#186(co-director George Chiper) was selected in Locarno 2008-Author’s Shorts and won the Runner Up Award in Miami IFF and Special Mention in Trieste IFF. Previous to this she made 5 short film screened and awarded in international film festivals like: Vienna Film Academy IFF, Beijing Film Academy IFF, Karlovy Vary Short Film Festival, Warszaw, Huesca, Circuito OFF Venice, Uruguay, Molodist Kiev, Documenta Madrid etc
Manekino Film
Banu Manta 18
011226 Bucharest
Banu Manta 18
011226 Bucharest