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64th TIFF: Greek Premiere

A young psychotherapist is gradually trapped in the questionnaire she is asked to administer to her patient. Her younger brother, who is full of unreasonable demands for his upcoming birthday, gets involved in a situation he cannot manage. Her husband, who is worried about his health, listens to the strange love story of a colleague in the hospital. And an experienced detective interrogates a key witness during a funeral, trying to unravel a heinous case. Through four stories that will methodically take their time until they come together, the mainstay of the Romanian New Wave Cristi Puiu (Sieranevada, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) returns to the pandemic year 2020 with a mosaic that proves resistant to all spectacular transitions from witty, wry humor –a trait rather unusual for the important style– to the darkest alleys of the human condition.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Available at the Agora Market TIFF64.

Direction: Cristi Puiu
Script: Cristi Puiu
Cinematography: Ivan Grincenco, Silviu Stavila
Editing: Sebastian Pereanu, Ecaterina Iaschevici
Sound: Alin Crețu, Alexandru Dumitru, Christophe Vingtrinier
Actors: Bianca Cuculici, Laurențiu Bondarenco, Otilia Panaite, Florin Țibre, Igor Babiac, Roxana Ogrendil, Adelaida Perjoiu, Dorian Boguță, Dragoș Bucur, Marin Cumatrenco
Production: Mandragora & Block Media Management
Producers: Dorian Boguță, Dragoș Bucur, Cristi Puiu, Anca Puiu
Co-production: Shellac, actoriedefilm.ro, Chainsaw Europe, Youbesc, Fit4you, Farmacia Ana
Co-producers: Sergiu Cumatrenco, Thomas Ordonneau, Viorel Chesaru, Smaranda Zărnoianu
Make Up: Ana Mihalache
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Romania, Moldova, France
Production Year: 2023
Duration: 161'
Contact: Shellac

Cristi Puiu

Cristi Puiu is a Romanian director, screenwriter, and producer born in Bucarest in 1967. After studying Arts in Geneva, he moved to directing and completed his first film in 2001, Stuff and Dough, which premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Puiu's sophomore film, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes' Un Certain Regard competition in 2005, a section in which his following film, Aurora competed as well. In 2016, Sieranevada entered the Cannes Official Competition. In 2020, Malmkrog was selected for the Encounters competition at the Berlinale and received the Best Director Award.

Filmography

2010 Stuff and Dough
2005 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
2010 Aurora
2016 Sieranevada
2020 Malmkrog
2023 MMXX