I must confess right away that one of the debut films I’ve most eagerly looked forward to in recent years is that of filmmaker Sarra Tsorakidis. Her short films captivated me with the way they captured snapshots from the lives of protagonists who are vaguely socially alienated yet forced by various circumstances to spend time around (too) many people. Her camera often focused on liminal images, with a very tight focal distance, shrouding things in a kind of haze that acted as a symbolic parallel to the fog and blur her characters felt – implacable and inaccessible until the inevitable, fateful moment when all the clouds around them would unleash an emotional storm. I was all the more thrilled when I found out that Ink Wash, her long-awaited debut film, was included in this year's selection of the Toronto Film Festival – where we rarely see world premieres of Romanian films, making its selection all the more notable.

Flavia Dima

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Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.

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