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.

Direction: Adrian Silișteanu

Script: Claudia Silișteanu

Production: Adrian Silișteanu, Anamaria Antoci, Anamaria Antoci

Cinematography: Adrian Silișteanu RSC

Editing: Costi Zaharia, Mircea Olteanu

Production Design: Alma Alexandra Ungureanu

Costume Design: Alma Alexandra Ungureanu

Make-Up: Dana Roșeanu

Sound: Ioan Filip

Cast: Sorin Mihai, Elena Ursaru, Alina Șerban

Original Title: SCRIS/NESCRIS

Original Language: Romanian

Film Production Country: Romania

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/scrisnescris/

Statement of the Director/s
The idea of this film emerged following a real life situation which I witnessed outside of a maternity ward and which, over the years, obsesively came back to my mind.
A Roma family waiting for their underage 15 years old daughter to give birth suddenly found itself in the absurd situation of being separated from her, because of faults in the system. It is true that they were neither the natural parents of the girl nor the adoptive ones, but still, they were the ones who had raised ever since she was little. The lack of documents proof to this fact triggered a completely absurd situation, at the basis of which there stood actually the conflict between two different cultures - a written one versus an oral one.
Can we state to the superiority of either of them?
The purpose of this film is not to necessarily give an answer to this question but to raise a series of questions related to the way society tries to settle the interactions between its members, not taking into account the specificity and individuality of each of them.The idea of this film emerged following a real life situation which I witnessed outside of a maternity ward and which, over the years, obsesively came back to my mind.
A Roma family waiting for their underage 15 years old daughter to give birth suddenly found itself in the absurd situation of being separated from her, because of faults in the system. It is true that they were neither the natural parents of the girl nor the adoptive ones, but still, they were the ones who had raised ever since she was little. The lack of documents proof to this fact triggered a completely absurd situation, at the basis of which there stood actually the conflict between two different cultures - a written one versus an oral one.
Can we state to the superiority of either of them?
The purpose of this film is not to necessarily give an answer to this question but to raise a series of questions related to the way society tries to settle the interactions between its members, not taking into account the specificity and individuality of each of them.

Biography of the Director/s
Adrian Silișteanu was born in Bacău, Romania, in March 5th, 1975 and he graduated Cinematography in Bucharest. Studying also Digital Cinematography at 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 cinematographer for the 2 seasons of Romanian version of HBO TV series “In treatment”. He also filmed many other movies including the feature films “Ho-ho-ho” (r: Jesus del Cerro) and “The worthy” (r: Ali Mostafa) and the EFA awarded short “Superman, Spiderman or Batman” (r: Tudor Giurgiu).

Filmography of the Director/s
2016, Written/Unwritten
2012, The Ditch

Awards Won
Grand Prix - Cinemed Montpellier
Grand Prix - Tallinn Black Nights - Sleepwalkers ISFF
Best Short Film - Trieste Film Festival
Best Short Film - Tampere IFF
Grand Prix - Odense IFF

World Sales:
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Berlin, 10405, Germany
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Press:
4 Proof Film
Anamaria Antoci
12-14 Constantin Budișteanu
Bucharest, 010775, Romania
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Phone: +40740155602
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