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Second Look

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Ana Maria Comanescu

Image Second Look
Romania
2015 Fiction 22 min
Lovebirds Radu and Mădălina are taking a trip together to her parents'. On the way, they pick up a hitchhiker, who becomes their friend.
With : Diana Cavallioti, Andrei Ciopec, Bogdan Nechifor
Screenplay : Ana-Maria Comănescu, Anca Istudor
Image : Tudor Platon
Editing : Patricia Chelaru
Sound : Andrei Boanță
Production : Carla Fotea & Alex Zlăvog
Distribution: UNATC
Ana-Maria Comănescu is a young film director from Romania, having graduated both the BA (in 2014) and the MA (2016) in Film Directing at the UNATC in Bucharest. Her work comprises fiction shorts, such as the black and white 16mm film about a party gone wrong, In the House (2014), Second Look (2015), a road movie about a couple who befriends a hitchhiker, and Sex, Pipe and Omelette (2016), a bitter-sweet, satirical anecdote on marriage and mid-life crisis, shot on colour 35 mm film. Like any young director, she's passionately looking forward to debuting with her first feature film.