Smart 7 2024
Where Elephants Go
Gabi Sarga y Catalín Rotaru |2024| 115'
SYNOPSIS
The family circumstances are tragic: Leni is battling an illness that is breaking her down, and her mother is working day and night (as a lady of the night) to take care of her daughter and her health. There is little imagination in their lives. Until the day Marcel comes along, a playwright marked by aloofness who will find his convictions challenged by Leni’s desire to make the most of life.
BIOGRAPHY
Gabi Sarga y Catalin Rotaru
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Gabi Șarga has extensive experience in the film and television industry, working as a screenwriter and director for more than 10 television series. Her first short fiction film, co-directed with Catalin Rotaru, 4:15 PM THE END OF THE WORLD (2017) premiered in the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cătălin Rotaru is a Romanian actor, screenwriter and director born in 1977. He graduated in acting from the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest in 2003. He has more than 10 years of experience as a scriptwriter for the main Romanian TV channels. He has written and directed several plays performed in Bucharest. Gabi and Catalin started working together co-directing with the film THOU SHALT NOT KILL (2019) which premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival and had an intense run at festivals around the world, winning a Special Jury Prize at the Lisbon Indie Film Festival in 2019. Now they are back again with Where Elephants Go.
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Critical text
In contrast to Pirandello's work, in Gabi Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru's debut opera, it is the authors who go in search of their characters. This is evident from the outset in a shot reminiscent of Coppola's The Conversation, in which they "hunt" down their protagonist amidst the hustle and bustle of Bucharest. This young man will form, together with a little girl, a strange couple with echoes of Quixote and Sancho, defending the transformative power of reality in favor of the authors' creative freedom, in order to escape the madness generated by the established social order. MARCOS CASADO PÉREZ
Technical Sheet
Estreno en España |
Cast: Richard Bovnoczki, Alice Cora Mihalache, Carina Lăpuşneanu, Andrei Hîncu, Stefan Mihai, Iulia Verdes.
Script by: Catalin Rotaru, Gabi Sarga
Cinematography: Adrian Paduretu
Editing By: Ștefan Azaharioaie
Sound: Ștefan Azaharioaie
Producer: Gabi Suciu
Production Company: Reason 8 – Denis Krupnov, Anna Krupnova.
