Romania, 20 December 1989. Rebellion and hope exist alongside oppression and fear. While large-scale protests take place in the streets, coverage of these events remains scarce. Instead, the tyrannical president Ceaușescu is shamelessly glorified in propagandistic New Year's Eve shows. 

In the excitement of the protest, the lives of six individuals will intersect over the course of a day like no other until the fall of Ceausescu and his regime.

DIRECTOR: BOGDAN MURESANU; GENRE: TRAGICOMEDY; CAST: ADRIAN VǍNCICǍ, ANDREI MIERCURE, IULIAN POSTELNICU; 2025; ROMANIA; 2H18; ROMANIAN SPOKEN, DUTCH AND FRENCH SUBTITLES

AWARDS

With this feature film debut, made at the age of fifty, Muresanu won the Orizzonti side competition at the Venice Film Festival. At the Cairo International Film Festival, they won the Golden Pyramid for Best Film. They were awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. In Luxembourg, they won the Grand Prix and the Fipresci Prize.