I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING HERE

Talkback with Director Jacob Pincus and Subject Mima Kohn | Philadelphia Premiere | Mima, an American college student, embarks on a road trip to the rural Romanian village where her grandmother, Esther, was born. Her friend Jacob, a recent film-school dropout, joins her in the old country, along with an 18-year-old translator whom she found on Facebook. Decades after Esther’s death, Mima relies on her grandmother’s unmarked photos of the village and recorded oral history to orient herself in the remote area. As the trio scales walls and trek through fields searching for any evidence of Esther’s life in Romania, the deeper unknowns animating Mima's journey begin to reveal themselves. I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Here captures what it means to be young in the 2020s. It is a punk-rock response to a media-saturated upbringing, detachment from one’s history, and a bold statement of what to do about it.

  • Jacob Pincus
  • 2026
  • USA
  • 86 minutes
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