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Scris/Nescris (Written/Unwritten)

Adrian Silisteanu · Romania · Drama · 19 min · ♥︎ 285

Directed by Adrian Silisteanu · Starring Sorin Mihai, Elena Ursaru, Alina Serban, Teodora Sandu · 2016

At the hospital where his underage daughter has just given birth, a 50-year-old man without proper identity papers faces a bureaucracy that could separate him from her.

A tense, quietly gripping slice of Romanian realism about how much a missing piece of paper can cost a family.

Lacking proper identification, a 50-year-old man risks being separated by the authorities from his underage daughter, who has just had a baby.

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