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Best Intentions

Locarno Film
Festival 2011
Reykjavik International
Film Festival 2011
Hong Kong International
Film Festival 2012

Best Intentions

A Film by Adrian Sitaru

2011 - Romania - Drama - 2.35 DCP - 102 min.

with Bogdan Dumitrache , Nataşa Raab , Alina Grigore & Marian Râlea

Language: Romanian
Produced by Ada Solomon

Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son’s life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody’s advice, he’s becoming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his
own set of mistakes – throughout with best intentions.

Locarno Film
Festival 2011
Reykjavik International
Film Festival 2011
Hong Kong International
Film Festival 2012

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