Parcelpaedia

Marina Sulima | 2020 | Netherlands, Moldova | 14’53’’ | EN subtitles

Marina’s first short film Parcelpaedia reflects on and responds to the ‘Italy Syndrome’ - a type of depression specific to Eastern European women who work as caregivers in Italy. The film features Dr. Cara, a fictitious physician who examines parcels sent by these migrants to their families in Moldova, creating an absurd world with its own logic, where objects are alive and active in the Moldovan-Italian migration context. 

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Consider a Tomato

Marina Sulima | 2025 | Netherlands, Moldova | 74’ | EN subtitles

Consider cutting a tomato open, consider the worlds contained within. Consider a recipe for pickled tomatoes in a world full of LED-light grown, rock-wool sown tomatoes. Consider following tomatoes from closed-off Dutch greenhouses to Moldova, home to the filmmaker and many greenhouse workers, who leave their own tomato patches to work behind glass walls. Consider your guide to be a manuscript full of family recipes and countless ways of fermenting tomatoes.

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Marina Sulima is an artist born in Moldova, working and living in Groningen. She graduated in 2020 from Minerva Academy in Groningen with Parcelpaedia, a short film about Italy Syndrome: a depression specific to Eastern European women who work as caregivers in Italy. The film received a Wildcard from Netherlands Filmfonds, which allowed her to make another hybrid film: Consider a tomato. Marina works with illustration, animation, sculpture and film to create stories that follow the trajectories of certain objects. She wants to engage with a worn-out and heart-broken world and re-center human stories around the land.