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Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things
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'Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things' (Romanian: 'Meda sau Partea nu prea fericit a lucrurilor') is a 2017 Romanian drama film directed and written by Emanuel Prvu, and starring erban Pavlu and Ana Radu. The plot follows Doru (Pavlu), a widowed lumberjack living in an isolated village, who struggles earning money so that his foster teenage daughter Meda (Radu) is not sent back to the orphanage. It is the full-length debut of Prvu.
The film premiered on August 15, 2017 at the Sarajevo Film Festival where it Prvu and Pavlu received the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Director and Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actor, respectively. The film was theatrically released in Romania on November 24, 2017. At the 2018 Gopo Awards, 'Meda' received nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (for Pavlu), Best Cinematography (for Silviu Stavil) and Best Directorial Debut (for Prvu), but won neither of them.
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