Graduation

Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker Cristian Mungiu is back with the highly anticipated film that earned the Romanian master the Best Director award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Romeo Aldea is a frustrated and unfulfilled 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 first 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.