Romania | V.O. Romanian | ST French | 2016 | 127 min | DCP | color | Fiction | Quebec Premiere
Romeo, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding – Eliza has got a scholarship to study psychology in UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. On the day prior to her first written exam, an incident jeopardizes Eliza’s departure. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the problem, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter. GPHQ
| Director | Cristian Mungiu |
| Cinematographer | Tudor Vladimir Panduru |
| Screenplay | Cristian Mungiu |
| Cast | Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov |
| Production | FRANCE 3 CINÉMA, LES FILMS DU FLEUVE, MOBRA FILMS, WHY NOT PRODUCTIONS |
| Distribution | AZ FILMS |
Before studying film, Romanian writer and director, Cristian Mungiu, began his career as a teacher and journalist. In 2007, his second feature-length film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He returned to the festival in 2009 with the web series, Tales from the Golden Age and in 2012 with Beyond the Hills, winning two awards that year. In 2013, he attended the Festival as a member of the jury. Graduation is his fifth film.
