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ELEFANT DEPARTE / ELEPHANT FAR AWAY

Teona Galgoțiu
Romania
12 min.

An alien who stuck on Earth because of the pandemic sends a report to the headquarters on her home planet, where she shares thoughts regarding people, dreams and trees.

The lockdown: a period of questioning the relationship we have with our own body, the environment, humanity, or, in short, with everything we thought that we knew and which now was suddenly changed. The film’s alien alter-ego guides us through these new conditions of reality and tactfully using knowledge filtered through unearthly eyes. Galgoțiu the author takes advantage of the isolation in observational, language games and the absurdity of the situation taken from the media. In an attempt to keep a kind of diary that doubles as reports sent to her mother planet, the AI voice documents her stay on Earth in an intimate essay on the attempt to reach the core of humanity. (Daria Barbu)

Premii și festivaluri

Screening date and location

Saturday 20 November@Cinemateca Eforie

Eforie 2
Cumpără bilet

TEONA GALGOȚIU

Teona Galgoțiu (b. 1998, Bucharest) is a filmmaker, writer and cultural manager. Her short films were screened in international festivals and her texts published in anthologies and online platforms. She has been organising the Super Festival since 2014 and she is the founder of Gura Mare, a project which explores poetry through interdisciplinary projects. In 2020 she had her poetry debut with ”I look back and it’s gone” (OMG Publishing), and in 2021 she was nominated for the “Young Hope” Award at the Gopo Awards and a participant of Talents Sarajevo.

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FILM TITLE: ELEFANT DEPARTE / ELEPHANT FAR AWAY

12′, 2020, România

Director: TEONA GALGOȚIU

 

CAST: TEONA GALGOȚIU

SCRIPTWRITER: TEONA GALGOȚIU

EDITING: TEONA GALGOȚIU

SOUND: TEONA GALGOȚIU

WORLD SALES 

INSTITUTUL CULTURAL ROMÂN

Anca Hrab – European Film Festival  coordinator

E: anca.hrab@icr.ro / icr@icr.ro

T: 0317100627 / 0317100606 

W: www.icr.ro

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