Directed by:
Ioana UricaruScreenplay:
Ioana UricaruCinematography:
Friede ClauszComposer:
Olivier AlaryCast:
Mălina Manovici, Steve Bacic, Dylan Smith, Milan Hurduc, Ruxandra Maniu, Goran Radakovic, Meghan Allen, Lisa Moore, Jane Wheeler, Nastassia Markiewicz (more)Plots(1)
Mara, a nurse from Romania, got married whilst on a working visit to the USA. Together with her husband Daniel, whom she met as a patient, she is now waiting for her Green Card. She has already brought to the States her little son Dragos from a previous relationship. However, the naturalisation process is proving to be difficult and Mara increasingly begins to realise that the America she imagined has little to do with the reality. After the immigration officer responsible for her case exploits her plight, the situation seems almost hopeless. ‘Even the people who hate the United States want to live here’ is a statement the heroine of this film hears again and again, and her own experiences are characterised by a similar ambivalence. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Mălina Manovici
Best movies:
Graduation (2016)
Lemonade (2018)
Balaur (2021)
Steve Bacic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Wonder (2017)
X-Men 2 (2003)
Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Dylan Smith
Best movies:
First Cow (2019)
Lemonade (2018)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) (series)
Milan Hurduc
Best movies:
Lemonade (2018)
Ruxandra Maniu
Best movies:
Lemonade (2018)
Poppy Field (2020)
Goran Radakovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
The Black Bomber (1992)
Enclave (2015)
Here and There (2009)
Lisa Moore
Best movies:
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
The Wool Cap (2004) (TV movie)
The Aviator (2004)
Jane Wheeler
Best movies:
Dog Pound (2010)
Brooklyn (2015)
I'm Not There (2007)
Nastassia Markiewicz
Canada
Best movies:
Gerontophilia (2013)
Lemonade (2018)
Cyberbully (2011) (TV movie)
Jodie Resther
Canada
Best movies:
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
I'm Not There (2007)
Lemonade (2018)
Arthur Holden
Canada
Best movies:
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Lion of Oz (2000)
Felicia Shulman
Best movies:
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Shivers (1975)
Daniel Rindress-Kay
Canada
Best movies:
Long Shot (2019)
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Warm Bodies (2013)
Pauline Little
Best movies:
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
I'm Not There (2007)
Richard Jutras
Best movies:
The Twentieth Century (2019)
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Wicker Park (2004)