Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania.
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Cătălin Saizescu Director · Marius Th. Barna Writer Diana Grigoriu Writer
First release June 23, 2017 · Produced in Romania · Original title Scurtcircuit
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Romania
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Original title
Scurtcircuit
Original language
Romanian
Spoken on screen
Romanian
Release dates
China · June 23, 2017
Shanghai International Film Festival
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France
December 15, 2018 · Paris Rumanian Film Festival
Romania
February 23, 2018 · Premiere
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