MILK TEETH / DINTI DE LAPTE / МОЛОЧНІ ЗУБИ

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2025 / 104' / feature / Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria

Romania, 1989. During the last days of Ceausescu’s dictatorship, in a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the last witness to her sister’s mysterious disappearance.

Torn apart by the loss, she is trying to make sense of a new, terrifying reality. Can she summon up the courage to grow up in a collapsing world?

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DIRECTOR - MIHAI MINCAN

Biography

Mihai Mincan graduated from the University of Philosophy in Bucharest and later pursued an MBA at the University of Poitiers. He worked as a journalist for some of Romania’s leading

newspapers and magazines. His transition to filmmaking began in 2008, when he wrote his first script, The Palm Lines – a short film that went on to be selected at prestigious international festivals including Locarno, Rotterdam, and Cottbus. Over the years, Mihai has written and directed short films, all of which premiered at notable festivals in Europe and Romania, and also co-directed several television documentaries. His debut feature, To the North, premiered in the Orizzonti Competition at the Venice Biennale in 2022. To the North involved 5 co-producers, was filmed in 3 countries, spoken in 5 languages, by actors from 4 territories. It won the Bisato D'oro award offered by the Independent Critics Association in Venice. The film has subsequently been selected at over 25 festivals including Karlovy-Vary, Haifa, Seattle, Jeonju, Thessaloniki.

Selected filmography

2025: Milk Teeth
2025: Hunters In The Snow
2022: To The North
2020: Idyll (short)
2017: The Comet (short)

Director: Mihai Mincan

Producers: Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascar

Screenwriter: Mihai Mincan

Cinematography: George Chiper-Lillemark

Composer: Marius Leftărache

Cast: Emma Ioana Mogoș, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, István Téglás, Victor-Ioan Rogobete, Lara Maria Alexandra Comănescu, Maia-Victoria Boboc, Albert Ciută

Production: deFilm, Remora Films, Ström Pictures, Studiobauhaus, Screening Emotions

Rightsholder / Sales agent: Cercamon, sebastien@cercamon.biz

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