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Interview with Mihai Mincan for Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte) presented at 2025 Venice Film Festival - Orizzonti section. Interview conducted by Eric Lavallée for IONCINEMA.com.
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Timestamps:
1:08 - How was it to move into a different kind of film after To the North (2022)?
2:30 - Seeing that the film contains perhaps less scripted elements, how was it to get your producing partners onboard?
4:45 - A film like this asks you to research mannerisms - how was the research for this?
8:12 - You create a world where children are allowed to feel the world around them - how did you go about creating this?
12:20 - The child protagonist is super sensitive - which places herself in her shoes and her parent's shoes.....
14:07 - Did you give your young actress (Emma Ioana Mogoş) a better perspective of what that era might have been like..?
16:52 - Prior to the pencil case sequence - what is the idea behind the Pioneer Organization (Organizaţia Pionierilor)?
19:00 - ....I imagine to some degree that it isolates her ?
19:25 - There is not real antagonistic forces here....tell me about not including characters as such..
21:30 - I like the sound design here - it feels like you wrote the sound for the film?
25:25 - You've made back to back film projects - what are some themes that you want to explore for your next feature?
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CREDITS
Producers: Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascar, Cyriac Auriol, Monica Hellström, Konstantinos Vassilaros, Poli Angelova
Director: Mihai Mincan
Screenplay: Mihai Mincan
Cinematography: George Chiper Lillemark
Editing: Dragos Apetri
Production Designer: Anamaria Tecu
Costume Designer: Dana Paparuz
Sound: Nicolas Becker, Cyril Holtz, Benjamin Laurent, Ange Hubert, Frédéric Dabo
Original Score: Marius Leftarache, Nicolas Becker
Cast: Emma Ioana Mogoş, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, Istvàn Téglás
IONCINEMA.com is a media outlet featuring daily news, reviews and interviews in American indie, world cinema, documentary film & film festivals. Our motto: We heart subtitles!
Interview with Mihai Mincan for Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte) presented at 2025 Venice Film Festival - Orizzonti section. Interview conducted by Eric Lavallée for IONCINEMA.com.
Please support us by SUBSCRIBING to our Youtube channel!:
youtube.com/user/ioncinema?sub_confirmation=1
Let us know what you think of To the North (2022) and Milk Teeth (2025) - leave your comments below!
Timestamps:
1:08 - How was it to move into a different kind of film after To the North (2022)?
2:30 - Seeing that the film contains perhaps less scripted elements, how was it to get your producing partners onboard?
4:45 - A film like this asks you to research mannerisms - how was the research for this?
8:12 - You create a world where children are allowed to feel the world around them - how did you go about creating this?
12:20 - The child protagonist is super sensitive - which places herself in her shoes and her parent's shoes.....
14:07 - Did you give your young actress (Emma Ioana Mogoş) a better perspective of what that era might have been like..?
16:52 - Prior to the pencil case sequence - what is the idea behind the Pioneer Organization (Organizaţia Pionierilor)?
19:00 - ....I imagine to some degree that it isolates her ?
19:25 - There is not real antagonistic forces here....tell me about not including characters as such..
21:30 - I like the sound design here - it feels like you wrote the sound for the film?
25:25 - You've made back to back film projects - what are some themes that you want to explore for your next feature?
CONNECT with IONCINEMA.com
Visit our website: ioncinema.com
Twitter: twitter.com/ioncinema
Facebook: facebook.com/ioncinema
Instagram: instagram.com/ioncinema
CREDITS
Producers: Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascar, Cyriac Auriol, Monica Hellström, Konstantinos Vassilaros, Poli Angelova
Director: Mihai Mincan
Screenplay: Mihai Mincan
Cinematography: George Chiper Lillemark
Editing: Dragos Apetri
Production Designer: Anamaria Tecu
Costume Designer: Dana Paparuz
Sound: Nicolas Becker, Cyril Holtz, Benjamin Laurent, Ange Hubert, Frédéric Dabo
Original Score: Marius Leftarache, Nicolas Becker
Cast: Emma Ioana Mogoş, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, Istvàn Téglás
IONCINEMA.com is a media outlet featuring daily news, reviews and interviews in American indie, world cinema, documentary film & film festivals. Our motto: We heart subtitles!
