Completed - ROMANIAN - Drama - 72 minutes
A young guy is killed and thrown on the roadside: without guilt, without trial, without even knowing what exactly he is accused of... Why?
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Anatol DURBALA Writer(s) : Anatol DURBALA Cast : Igor BABIAC, Igor CARAS-ROMANOV, Sergiu BITCA Producer(s) : Sergiu CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC CREATIVE INSTITUTE (DAX TANDEM SRL))
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist (Igor Babiac) is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
Country(ies) : MOLDOVA
Warsaw FF 2014 (FIPRESCI PRIZE, 1-2 competition)Massachusetts Independent Film Festival 2015 (BEST DIRECTOR, BEST WRITING, BEST FOREIGN FILM)Crossing Europe Film Festival 2015 (Audience Award Best Fiction Film)San Sebastian FF 2022 Films in Progress - Director's Previous Works