Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things

Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things (Romanian: Meda sau Partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor) is a 2017 Romanian drama film directed and written by Emanuel Pârvu, and starring Șerban Pavlu and Ana Radu. The plot follows Doru (Pavlu), a widowed lumberjack living in an isolated village, who struggles to earn money so that his foster teenage daughter Meda (Radu) is not sent back to the orphanage. It is the full-length debut of Pârvu.

RomanianMeda sau Partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor

Directed byEmanuel Pârvu

Screenplay byEmanuel Pârvu

Produced by

• Miruna Berescu
• Dan Chișu
• Dorin Mirea
• Domnica Predoiu
• Tudor Reu

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Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things
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Romanian	Meda sau Partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor
Directed by	Emanuel Pârvu
Screenplay by	Emanuel Pârvu
Produced by	Miruna Berescu Dan Chișu Dorin Mirea Domnica Predoiu Tudor Reu
Starring	Șerban Pavlu Ana Radu
Cinematography	Silviu Stavilã
Edited by	Dan-Ștefan Pârlog
Production companies	DaKINO Production FamArt Production
Release dates	15 August 2017 (2017-08-15) (Sarajevo Film Festival) 24 November 2017 (2017-11-24) (Romania)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Romania
Language	Romanian
Budget	€1,060,800[1]

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The film premiered on August 15, 2017, at the Sarajevo Film Festival where Pârvu and Pavlu received the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Director and Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actor, respectively.^[2] The film was theatrically released in Romania on November 24, 2017.^[3] At the 2018 Gopo Awards, Meda received nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (for Pavlu), Best Cinematography (for Silviu Stavilă) and Best Directorial Debut (for Pârvu), but won neither of them.^[4]