Dinți de lapte / Milk Teeth
2025, 104 min.

pre-premiere screening, not distributed in Poland

Awards and selections: Venice International Film Festival 2025 – Orizzonti Competition
Director: Mihai Mincan
Cast: Emma Ioana Mogoș, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, István Téglás
Country: Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria

[IN-PERSON SCREENING]

Childhood ends where fear begins

Romania, 1989. The final days of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, ten-year-old Maria is the last person to see her sister before she disappears. Devastated by the loss, she tries to make sense of a new and terrifying reality while confronting two nightmarish worlds: the one in which she feels lost, ignored and left to fend for herself, and the realm of dreams, where dark visions begin to take control of her life. Will she find the courage to grow up?

Mihai Mincan

Romanian director, screenwriter and writer. He made his feature debut with “To the North” (2022), which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. His work often explores the lives of people on the margins of society, violence and situations of extreme vulnerability.

Tags: childhood, dictatorship, grief, fear, Romania

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