Slovenian filmmaker Miha Mazzini's feature debut, Erased [+leggi anche:
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But within a few days, Ana is entangled in a web of bureaucracy of Kafkaesque proportions: not being in the computer means no social security, no permanent address and no baby. In a brutal turn of events, she is forced to leave her newborn girl alone at the hospital, with no rights to visit her until everything is sorted out. All of a sudden, Ana is a foreigner, even though she has lived in Slovenia all her life. Legally, she doesn’t exist, and so her child is an orphan. And orphans are put up for adoption. 

Set in the mid-1990s, as the breakup of Yugoslavia drove the Slovenian state to revoke the citizenship of nearly 26,000 people, Erased stars Croatia's Judita Franković Brdar (Sonja and the Bull [+leggi anche:
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Sebastian Cavazza, Jernej Kogovšek, Doroteja Nadrah, Izudin Bajrović and Silva Čušin also star in this co-production between Slovenia's Gustav Film, Croatia's Kinorama and Pakt Media, and Serbia's Delirium. One of Serbia's most highly acclaimed cinematographers, Dušan Joksimović (Train Driver's Diary [+leggi anche:
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German company Pluto Film handles the international rights.

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