Marta Balaga Paris-based Tomsa Films will co-produce Andrei Epure’s first feature “Don’t Let Me Die.” The company, created in 2018, is also behind Laura Samani’s acclaimed Cannes Critics’ Week premiere “Small Body” and documentary “Zaho Zay.”“Don’t Let Me Die” follows the consequences of a woman’s death in front of her apartment building.
Her neighbor, Maria, is interrogated by the police and eventually takes charge of the funeral. She finds herself entangled in a maze of bureaucracy as she tries to escape the feeling that she is being haunted.Produced by Alexandru Teodorescu and Ana Gheorghe of Bucharest-based production company Saga Film, the project has received production funding from the Romanian CNC and is about to apply for financing in France.
At the moment, production is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2024. “I was riding the bus one day and some strangers were talking about a Romanian journalist who was found dead after two weeks in her flat.
I was witnessing an impromptu eulogy between a few bus stops,” said Epure, noting his film will “explore the anguish of passing away in complete indifference.”“This is a story of alienation, describing the ghostly territories we inhabit, where the ordinary becomes mysterious and the foreign familiar.
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