4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days(4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile)

Taking Romanian New Wave to international prominence by winning the Palme d’Or, Mungiu’s rigorously realistic drama hovers breathlessly on the border between tragedy, horror, and black comedy through the odyssey of an illegal abortion. In unflinching yet empathetic detail, the film recounts the events within the compressed frame of twenty-four perilous hours, during which a young woman is forced into an appalling act of self-sacrifice as she aids her roommate in obtaining a foeticide from a manipulative abortionist. A triumph of almost clinical aesthetic featuring fluid camerawork and precise framing, Mungiu’s tantalising imagery cuts deeply into the desperate entrapment of women under Ceauşescu’s iron rule.

Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or and FIPRESCI Prize