A thirty-year-old mother from Romania, who works in the US as a caretaker, marries one of her patients shortly before her visa expires, in order to grant her son a better future. However, the hostility of her environment and the misfortunes of everyday bureaucracy make her doubt whether she did the right thing. A production by Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu (one of the main representatives of the so-called “New Wave of Romanian cinema”) about the bitter and sour taste of the modern world, where the cruelest power is forced through the illusion of free choice.
Lemonade
Lemonade
DRAMA

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- Direction: Ioana Uricaru
- Script: Ioana Uricaru, Tatiana Ionascu
- Cinematography: Friede Clausz
- Editing: Mircea Olteanu
- Sound: Kai Tebbel
- Actors: Mălina Manovici, Steve Bacic, Dylan Scott Smith, Milan Hurduc, Ruxandra Maniu
- Production: Mobra Films, Peripheria, 42film, Filmgate Films, Film i Väst
- Producers: Cristian Mungiu, Yanick Létourneau, Eike Goreczka, Christoph Kukula, Sean Wheelan, Anthony Muir
- Art Direction: Sylvain Lemaitre
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 88΄
- Distribution in Greece: Danaos Films, ilias@danaosfilms.gr
- Contact: Pluto Film, info@plutofilm.de
- Awards/Distinctions: Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Director – Sarajevo IFF 2018 Golden Lynx for Best Feature Film – FEST IFF 2018 Danube 2860 for Best Film – Dunav IFF 2018 Perspective Young Cinema Award – Fünf Seen IFF 2018 UFK-UCC Press Award – Oostende IFF 2018
Ioana Uricaru
Ioana Uricaru was born and raised in Romania, where she studied Βiology before turning to filmmaking. She holds a MFA in Film and Television Production and a PhD in Critical Studies, both from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is an Alumna of Berlinale Talents, the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence Programme, the Sundance Labs, and the Torino Film Lab. She was recently granted a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
Filmography
2009 Amintiri din epoca de aur | Tales from the Golden Age (co-director, short)
2010 Stopover (short)
2011 Variations to a Portrait – Norman Manea in dialogue with Robert Boyers (doc)
2018 Lemonade
2010 Stopover (short)
2011 Variations to a Portrait – Norman Manea in dialogue with Robert Boyers (doc)
2018 Lemonade