Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things (2017)

Original title

Meda sau partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor

Directed by

Emanuel Pârvu

Genre

drama film

Country

Romania

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

16

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed lumberjack in a remote Romanian village tries to earn enough money to keep his foster daughter from being sent back to an orphanage. The story follows his daily struggles and the bond between them.

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What happens

Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things (Romanian: Meda sau Partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor) is a 2017 Romanian drama film directed and written by Emanuel Pârvu, and starring Șerban Pavlu and Ana Radu. The plot follows Doru (Pavlu), a widowed lumberjack living in an isolated village, who struggles earning money so that his foster teenage daughter Meda (Radu) is not sent back to the orphanage. It is the full-length debut of Pârvu. The film premiered on August 15, 2017, at the Sarajevo Film Festival where it Pârvu and Pavlu received the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Director and Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actor, respectively. The film was theatrically released in Romania on November 24, 2017. At the 2018 Gopo Awards, Meda received nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (for Pavlu), Best Cinematography (for Silviu Stavilă) and Best Directorial Debut (for Pârvu), but won neither of them. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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