Consider a Tomato


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  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.


Supported by Netherlands Film Fund - Wildcard
Written and directed by: Marina Sulima
Producer: Manon Bovenkerk
Editor: Albert Elings
Composer: Sanam Tahmasebi
Sound design: Fokke van Saane
Text editor: Jesse Havinga
Camera: Andrei Moraru, Thomas Grootoonk, Marina Sulima
Additional camera: Lucian Spătaru, Olivia D’Cruz
Animation support: Olivia D’Cruz
Sound recording: Constantin Coadă, Alexandros Papamarkou
Additional sound: Viorel Gasnas, Albert Elings
Musicians: Sanam Tahmasebi, Radik Faydek
Final mix: Alex Booy

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