{"id":12960,"date":"2022-01-17T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/movie\/waiting-for-august\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:38:51","slug":"waiting-for-august","status":"publish","type":"movie","link":"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/waiting-for-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00bbI made the movie because I felt like history was repeating itself. My parents left the country for political reasons. Today, parents leave for economic ones. But the children are always left behind. I thought it was time to tell their story. It\u2019s the story of so many families. I don\u2019t know a single Romanian family that doesn\u2019t have a relative abroad. There\u2019s always someone somewhere else sending money home. It can destroy families, it\u2019s incredibly sad.\u00ab<br \/>\nTeodora Ana Mihai<\/p>\n<p>Georgiana turns 15 this winter and she\u2019s the new head of the Halmac family. She lives with her six siblings in a state-subsidised apartment on the outskirts of Bac\u0103u, Romania. Her mother is working as a carer for a wealthy elderly couple in Turin. She won\u2019t be home before the summer. Georgiana is responsible not only for herself but also for her siblings. And yet she doesn\u2019t see herself as a victim, but does her best to help her brothers and sisters get by. The only support she gets is in the form of regular phone conversations with her mother, conversations that occasionally trigger a longing for a normal, sheltered adolescence.<\/p>\n<p>The director cleverly chooses to open the film with one of these phone conversations between mother and daughter. We are immediately fascinated by the characters and intrigued to watch them in their busy everyday lives. Apparently unnoticed, Teodora Ana Mihai succeeds in capturing intimate family scenes and drawing an accurate portrait of the seven siblings. The viewer is both fascinated by the children\u2019s resourcefulness and disturbed by the precariousness of their situation.<\/p>\n<p>Film programme Broken Landscapes<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Awards for \u203aWaiting for August\u2039<\/strong><br \/>\nBest International Feature, HotDocs 2014 | Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary 2014 | Special Mention, Vision du R\u00e9el<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18781,"template":"","movie_year":[47],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[427],"festival":[596],"class_list":["post-12960","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-47","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-focus-en-2015","festival-2015-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Waiting for August - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/waiting-for-august\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Waiting for August - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00bbI made the movie because I felt like history was repeating itself. 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