One ordinary day on the outskirts of an industrial city. A deserted sandpit. A secluded inhabitant. A strange visitor.

Life will never be the same ever again.

Adina Pintilie

Adina Pintilie has just graduated from the National Film School in Bucharest. Her school films - of which Sandpit #186 is one - travelled to many international festivals, from Rio de Janeiro to Beijing and to Documenta Madrid. She has recently received international acclaim for her medium-length documentary Don't Get me Wrong (2007), which premiered in the Filmmakers of the Present competitive section of the Locarno Film Festival. It was selected in the Best of Fests section of IDFA Amsterdam 2007 and won a number of awards, among which was the Golden Dove for Best Documentary in Dok Leipzig 2007 and, recently, the Best Woman Director Award at the International Film Festival of Contemporary Cinema, Mexico. Adina Pintilie was the first recipient of the STEPdoc mobility grant initiated by the Ratiu Foundation in 2006, for a film project that she will start researching in London later this year.