Written/Unwritten

Synopsis

Outside a maternity ward, a Roma family is announced their underage daughter has just had a baby girl. Pardică (50) doesn’t seem to celebrate the moment; he is very displeased with this early pregnancy, for which he blames his wife. However, things become even tenser when a hospital employee asks them to sign some papers and discovers issues related to their IDs and their status as parents of the underage new mother. The imminent danger of state authorities separating them from their daughter determines Pardică to take action.

Biography

Adrian Silișteanu was born in Bacău, Romania, on 5 March 1975 and he graduated in Cinematography in Bucharest. Studying also Digital Cinematography at the National Audiovisual Institute in Paris, he worked for a short period as digital imaging technician. Romanian Director Adrian Sitaru’s debut film HOOKED was also Silișteanu’s first film as director of photography. He shot all of Sitaru's features, BEST INTENTIONS, DOMESTIC, ILLEGITIMATE, FIXEUR and his shorts WAVES, THE CAGE, LORD, HOUSE PARTY, EXCURSION and ART. He worked with the well-known Romanian theatre director Silviu Purcărete for his first motion picture SOMEWHERE IN PALILULA and he was the cinematographer for the two seasons of the Romanian version of the HBO TV series IN TREATMENT. He also filmed many other movies including the feature films HO-HO-HO (dir: Jesus del Cerro) and THE WORTHY (r: Ali Mostafa) as well as for the EFA-awarded short SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN OR BATMAN (dir: Tudor Giurgiu).

Filmography:

2016 WRITTEN/UNWRITTEN
2012 THE DITCH