Waiting for August
Waiting for August
| 12 October 2014 (USA)
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Georgiana Halmac is turning 15 this winter, but she has no time for teenage dreams when her mother, who's on unemployment, moves to Torino to find work. Georgiana is left in charge of her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. Caught between adolescence and the responsibilities of adulthood, Georgiana does the best she can, improvising with parenting advice from the television and the occasional phone call with her mother. As she handles her own issues and high-school dramas, Georgiana must also deal with admonishing neighbours who threaten to turn the whole family into social services. With incredible calm and stoicism, Georgiana amazes as she holds everything together in an ingenious and delicate balance.

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GamerTab

That was an excellent one.

Exoticalot

People are voting emotionally.

Steineded

How sad is this?

Konterr

Brilliant and touching

spaceman88

This is a wonderful documentary about a contemporary issue in Romania: parents leaving their children to work abroad for a better pay.It is a sacrifice, because with financial gain they lose the necessary close parent-child connection.In this case, we follow six children, of which three not even teens yet, through a 8-9 month period, living by themselves and waiting for August, when they will see their mother again.It would be easy to judge the mother of negligence, (no father is in the picture by the way) but this is a common social issue because of a born-again but crumbling democratic country.The documentary is very well shot, accurately representing Romanian society and a lower middle-class family. The editing is very cinematic and the children act so natural as if there was no camera in their confined rooms.And there's a natural chemistry between the siblings, three teenagers and three younger children. It's a mixing pot of honest emotions: joy, anger, disappointment, bonding and love. I applaud the director for this effort, it is a very touching documentary. It's simple, but goes straight to the heart.

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