“Intercom 15”
SAFF 2022 Award Winner
Several residents discover an unconscious woman lying in front of the block. Even though she lives on the third floor, nobody knows her name. While waiting for rescue, the neighbours reflect on her life and their own.
Director Biography
Andrei Epure’s work reflects on language, identity and cinema with an approach of a ghostly unreality. His films question the limits of communication in trying to grasp something that is beyond grasp.
He graduated from the National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale" in Screenwriting and Film Studies.
His latest short film, Interfon15, has been selected the 60th edition of La Semaine de la Critique.
Director’s Statement
Interfon15 explores our anguish in the face of nothingness, of trying to maintain with our reason what is absent. I wanted to describe ghostly territories which we try to inhabit by communicating ourselves to our neighboring ones. The film reflects on language breeding illusion, relying on the prostheses of our preconceived understanding of reality. As for the film language, I am interested in the fluctuation of different genres meeting in a collage cinema that invites unrelated traditions of expression. It is important for me to mistrust reality, presenting the ordinary with mystery and the familiar with displacement.