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The Harriman Institute is pleased to cosponsor First Look 2025, the Museum of the Moving Image’s acclaimed festival of innovative new international cinema. Please join us for the US premiere of Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc’s film “Tata” (Moldova/Romania, 2024).

After years of estrangement, Moldovan journalist Lina receives a video message from her father, a migrant worker in Italy, seeking help from his abusive employer. Equipping him with a hidden camera, Lina finds herself on a parallel journey of justice—uncovering a pattern of domestic violence that has plagued her family for generations. Filmed across Italy, Moldova, and Romania, Tata is a raw and rigorously reflective portrait of a family caught in an ongoing cycle of toxic masculinity, from which Lina tries to free herself, the next generation, and even the one who hurt her. Winner, Best Director at the 2024 Astra Film Festival; Winner, Best Documentary at the 2025 Trieste Film Festival.

In Romanian and Italian with English subtitles.

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.

Use code harriman20 at checkout for a discount on this event or on an All Festival Pass.