Original Film Title: Joanna’s Kitchen
Director’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Writer’s Name: Theo Herghelegiu
Producer: Cosmina Sandor
Country of Origin: Romania
Country of Filming: Romania
Language: Romanian
Runtime: 22 minutes 33 seconds
Film Description:
A young woman presents her weekly culinary podcast – Joanna’s Kitchen; today: Coq au vin.
Nothing unusual, except the fact that she’s pretty tensed, behaving a bit chaotically and confused. After a few minutes, unexpectedly, her phone rings. At the other end, there is someone who corrects her about certain details of the recipe. In a mix of funny reactions, genuine cooking and a mystery underneath the action, Joanna manages to finish her coq au vin in a hectic way, while inserting specific, emphasized words among the cliché utterances of the recipe. The last call she gets takes her away from the camera and we only hear what was actually going on: she was constrained to say all those words during the podcast by somebody who had kidnapped her little boy. Now, as the work is done, she may take her child back. What we eventually understand, is that all those words and formulae that Joanna has mentioned, were encoded messages for some terrorists who planned a bomb attack, that very evening.