2023, 126 min.

not distributed in Poland

Director: Bogdan Mirică
Cast: Laurențiu Bănescu, Ioana Bugarin, Mimi Brănescu, Sergiu Costache, Cosmina Stratan
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, Sweden

[IN-PERSON SCREENING]

One crime is enough to turn a guilty conscience into an obsession.

Bogdan, a meticulous and intelligent ambulance driver in Bucharest, takes part in an armed robbery with three men he barely knows. During their escape, they hit a witness, who falls into a coma and later dies under suspicious circumstances. The incident shakes Bogdan’s conscience. Trying to regain control of the situation, he launches a painstaking, almost obsessive investigation to uncover the true identities of his accomplices. But the more he learns, the deeper he sinks into a spiral of fear and paranoia that begins to take over his entire life.

Bogdan Mirică

Romanian director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with “Dogs” (“Câini”, 2016), which was presented in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival that year. He is also the creator and screenwriter of the popular Romanian television series “Umbre” (“Shadow”s, 2019). His films combine genre cinema with close psychological observation of their characters.

Tags: crime, paranoia, morality, crime, Bucharest

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