Waiting for August

Synopsis

Georgiana Halmac, eldest daughter of her family, is turning fifteen this winter. She lives with her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau (Romania). Their mother Liliana, an economic migrant in Torino, will not be back till the summer. During mother’s absence, Georgiana is catapulted to the role of new head of the family. Her adolescence is brutally cut short, when she becomes responsible for her brothers and sisters. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, she moves ahead improvising. Phone conversations with her mom are her only guidelines.

Director Biography

Teodora Ana Mihai was born in Bucharest in April ‘81. In ‘89 she went to Belgium and was reunited with her parents, who had fled the year before. Teodora completed the high school in San Francisco, while living at her aunt’s house and thanks to her father’s old passion for photography and the artistic environment of San Francisco, her wish to tell stories through images and sound emerged.