CRISTIAN MUNGIU

GRADUATION (2017)
Starring Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Gelu Colceag, Rares Andrici and Ioachim Ciobanu. Directed by Cristian Mungiu.

Romeo Aldea is a frustrated and unful lled middle-aged doctor living in a small mountain town plagued by corruption. He wants a better life for his gifted daughter Eliza, raising her to believe that she will leave her home behind to go to university abroad, and live the life he always wished for himself.

His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology at Oxford in the UK, but she has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. However, the day before her rst exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardise her entire future. Now Romeo – a man of strong principles – has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them use the values he has instilled in his daughter.

REVIEWS Graduation - The role of a parent left unexplored

BEYOND THE HILLS (2013)
Starring Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan. Directed by Cristian Mungiu.

Voichita and Alina grew up together in an orphanage and the two girls were family for each other since first grade. At 19, Alina was taken in by a foster family and later decided to go and work in Germany, while Voichita found refuge in an Orthodox monastery and became a nun - there she found not only God but the family she’d never had. Feeling sick and estranged, Alina strives to get Voichita back in her life, and visits the monastery in order to convince her childhood friend to leave the Church.

Voichita asks permission to leave the monastery temporarily, but the Priests answer is firm: once you have taken the path of Christ there can be no comings or goings. Voichita is not prepared to abandon her newly found peace, while Alina is baffled by her decision: what on earth happened to the girl she knew? She starts fighting with all her strength to get Voichita back, but God is the most difficult lover of whom to be jealous - and soon the inhabitants of the monastery start to suspect something evil in this force that animates Alina.

GRADUATION (2017)
Starring Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Gelu Colceag, Rares Andrici and Ioachim Ciobanu. Directed by Cristian Mungiu.

Romeo Aldea is a frustrated and unful lled middle-aged doctor living in a small mountain town plagued by corruption. He wants a better life for his gifted daughter Eliza, raising her to believe that she will leave her home behind to go to university abroad, and live the life he always wished for himself.

His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology at Oxford in the UK, but she has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. However, the day before her rst exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardise her entire future. Now Romeo – a man of strong principles – has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them use the values he has instilled in his daughter.

REVIEWS Graduation - The role of a parent left unexplored

GRADUATION (2017)
Starring Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Gelu Colceag, Rares Andrici and Ioachim Ciobanu. Directed by Cristian Mungiu.

Romeo Aldea is a frustrated and unful lled middle-aged doctor living in a small mountain town plagued by corruption. He wants a better life for his gifted daughter Eliza, raising her to believe that she will leave her home behind to go to university abroad, and live the life he always wished for himself.

His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology at Oxford in the UK, but she has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. However, the day before her rst exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardise her entire future. Now Romeo – a man of strong principles – has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them use the values he has instilled in his daughter.

REVIEWS Graduation - The role of a parent left unexplored