About the Screening
Georgiana is about to turn fifteen. She lives with her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau (Romania). Their mother Liliana, an economic migrant in Torino, will not be back till the summer. During mother's absence, Georgiana is catapulted to the role of new head of the family. Her adolescence is brutally cut short, when she becomes responsible for her brothers and sisters. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, she moves ahead improvising. Phone conversations with her Mom are her only guidelines. This “home alone generation” is becoming all too common in Eastern Bloc countries because of the economic climate. With intimate scenes from the daily life of Georgiana and her siblings, Waiting for August uses an uncensored fly-on-the-wall cinema verité style showing how real events are experienced and interpreted with great imagination by this resilient family. Winner of the Best International Documentary at Hot Docs 2014 and Best Documentary Feature at 2014 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the film examines the amazing ingenuity the children possess, as they recognize how fragile their daily life is.