Bacalauréat (AKA FOTOGRAFII DE FAMILIE)

Graduation
Director
Cristian Mungiu
Country
Romania, France, Belgium
Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Cristian Mungiu
Cast
Vlad Ivanov, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Adrian Titieni, Lia Bugnar, Melina Manovici
Production
Mobra Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch Production, Les Films du Fleuve, Mandragora, France 3 Cinéma
http://www.whynotproductions.fr/film3.php?id=145

Storyline

Romeo Aldea, a physician living in a small mountain town inTransylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once he turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad.

His plan is close to succeeding – Elize has won a scholarship to study psychology in theUK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student.

On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Festival de Cannes 2016
Award for Best Director Ex-Aequo
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016
Horizons
BFI London Film Festival 2016

European Film Awards (EFA) 2016
Nominated: EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2016 & EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2016
César 2017
Nominated

Releases

Spain (25 of November 2016)