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MILK TEETH Romania-France-Denmark-Greece-Bulgaria, 2025, 104 min, color

What begins as a typical day of chores and playtime for 10-year-old Maria darkens when she becomes the last person to see her older sister Alina. On a simple trip through her courtyard to empty the trash bins, Alina disappears suddenly and quietly, leaving Maria and her bewildered parents to navigate a broken justice system with no clues and no assistance. While her mother loses her grip on the day-to-day and her father loses his hope, Maria takes matters into her own hands, determined to find her sister.

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Venice ’25 – Nominee Venice Horizons Award (Best Film)

Mihai Mincan

Mihai Mincan

Born in 1980 in Bucharest, Mihai Mincan is one of the most promising Romanian filmmakers. A graduate of Philosophy and with over 10 years experience as a journalist, he at one point took the plunge and entered the cinema world, after writing a screenplay that got him into two decisive, encouraging discussions, with Cristi Puiu and Corneliu Porumboiu. After a few short films, he co-directed three documentaries and directed his debut feature film, To the North (2022).  Milk Teeth (2025) is his latest film.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2014 Alaska – short

2015 Bondoc - doc. co-dir.

2017 The Comet –  short

2019 The Man Who Would Be Free - doc. 

2022 To the North

2025 Milk Teeth

DIRECTOR
Mihai Mincan
SCRIPT
Mihai Mincan
CAMERA
George Chiper-Lillemark
MUSIC
Marius Leftărache, Nicolas Becker
CAST
Emma Ioana Mogos, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, Istvan Teglas
PRODUCERS
Ioana Lascar, Radu Stancu, Nikolay Todorov; CO-PRODUCERS Poli Angelova, Cyriac Auriol, Monica Hellström, Konstantinos Vassilaros
PRODUCTION
deFilm, Remora Films, Ström Pictures, StudioBauhaus, Screening Emotions

MILK TEETH Romania-France-Denmark-Greece-Bulgaria, 2025, 104 min, color

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