Two filmmakers set out to document the story of a former businessman turned ecoactivist, determined to expose Romania’s timber mafia. But their journey takes a violent turn when, deep in the forest, the three are ambushed by a group of 12 furious men. One of the filmmakers suffers memory loss from the beating, another manages to escape and call the police, while the activist negotiates for his life. Their cameras are destroyed, and all the footage is lost. Faced with this harsh reality, each of them struggles to process what happened, confronting their own doubts and limitations. The filmmakers soon realize that the film they set out to make can no longer be what they had envisioned.
Tooth and nail
Directed by: Mihai Gavril Dragolea, Radu Mocanu
Produced by: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Elena Martin
Country of origin: Romania
Year of production: 2026
Duration: 84 min
Category: Ecology
Mihai Gavril Dragolea
Mihai Gavril Dragolea (Romania, 1989) specialises in documentary and hybrid fiction filmmaking. His films focus on alternative and peripheral humans or other types of sentient beings, on which subject he is also doing a Ph.D. Mihai’s documentaries have been shown in festivals in Europe and distributed in more than 15 countries. He lectures on Documentary Practice at the Faculty of Theater and Film of Babeș-Bolyai University. Mihai is also working in the ecological and animal protection domain.
Radu Mocanu
Radu Constantin Mocanu graduated in journalism at Lucian Blaga University in 2005. He got a job working at a TV station and later moved to Paris in order to study cinema at Ecole Superieure de Realisation Audiovisuelle, where he got a degree in 2009. Returning to Romania, he began working on his feature debut documentary: The Golden Robot (2015). Radu currently works as an independent documentary filmmaker.
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