A father offers his seven-year-old boy to a shepherd as a helper, in exchange for food and other goods. The child is nameless, deprived of any form of identity, and reduced to a sheer commodity – merely a part of a brutal bargain. On his first day of work, the boy loses a sheep and is fiercely beaten by the shepherd. After a white night spent in the barn that serves as a bedroom, the boy goes out on a desperate search for the missing sheep. A harsh and unrefined coming-of-age story set in present-day Romania.
Minion
Celed
60th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Anghel Damian
- Script: Anghel Damian
- Cinematography: George Dăscalescu
- Editing: Ciprian Cimpoi
- Sound: Dan-Stefan Rucăreanu, Ioan Filip
- Music: Matei Vasilache
- Actors: Răzvan Cristian Tomuș, Adrian Titieni, Costel Cașcaval
- Production: Aparte Film
- Producers: Anca Damian, Anghel Damian
- Co-production: Michelangelo Films
- Art Direction: Mădălina Marinescu
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Romania
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 23΄
- Contact: Επικοινωνία/Contact Aparte Film, office@apartefilm.net
- Awards/Distinctions: Special Mention – Transilvania International Film Festival 201
Anghel Damian
Damian’s first two short films Michelangelo (2018) and Minion (2019) premiered at the Transylvania International Film Festival and both won the Special Jury Prize. In 2019 he became the head-writer for Vlad, a modern adaption of The Count of Monte Cristo, that went on to become the most successful ever TV series in Romania.
Filmography
2018 Michelangelo (short)
2019 Minion (short)
