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ANISHOARA
[ANIŞOARA]

by Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu

Germany/Moldova 2016 106 min Romanian original version with German subtitles

Script: Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu, DoP: Cornelius Plache, Luciano Cervio, Maximilian Preiss, Editor: Hannah Schwegel, Production: Weydemann Bros., Producers: Jonas Weydemann, Jakob D. Weydemann, Cast: Ana Morari, Andrei Morari, Dragoş Scutelnicu, Petru Roşcovan, Veronica Cangea, Vasile Brînză, Willem Menne, Andrei Sochircă

Anishoara is a 15-year-old girl from a small village in Moldova. Alone with her old grandfather Petru and her little brother Andrei, life is calm but archaic. In summer she feels for the first time the overwhelming sensation of first love. In winter Anishoara travels for the first time to the sea. It is the last year of Anishoara’s childhood in this valley, before she takes off into her adult life

"The anthropologically inclined coming-of-age story (…) gets a sensitive and confident makeover in Ana Felicia Scutelnicu’s literal and thematic follow up to her 61-minute-long PANIHIDA. Dovetailing with her experiences shooting that film, which was set in the same small village in Moldova, ANISHOARA is the real name of her lead actress, whose unselfconscious, taciturn magnetism captivated the director." (Variety)

Biography: Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu was born in Moldova in the former Soviet Union. After living four years in Benin/West Africa, she moved to Berlin and enrolled at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Her short films ZWISCHEN MAUERN (2007) and HINTERHOF (2010) screened won numerous prizes at international festivals. In 2009, she shot an episode of TV doc 24H BERLIN – EIN TAG IM LEBEN. Her film PANIHIDA won the "Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize" for German-Eastern European coproductions in 2010 and had its premiere at Rome International Film Festival in 2012, where it won the CinemaXXI Award. ANISHOARA is her graduation film at the dffb and her debut feature.

Filmography (selection): 2007 ZWISCHEN MAUERN, 2008 DIE SPIELERIN, 2010 HINTERHOF (all short films, ex 23), 2012 PANIHIDA, 2016 ANISHOARA

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ANISHOARA Trailer from Pluto Film on Vimeo.