Fri 1 Dec, 8.50pm

R.M.N.

Director Cristian Mungiu

Followed by Q&A with director Cristian Mungiu

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R.M.N.

Followed by Q&A with director Cristian Mungiu

Director Cristian Mungiu

Romania | 2022 | 126 mins | long feature

Cast: Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu

Set in a multi-ethnic village in Transylvania the film follows Matthias, newly-returned from Germany, and his ex, Csilla, the village’s baker. She has hired two foreigners to work in her bakery, causing unexpected unrest.
The film is based on a xenophobic incident in Transylvania, in 2020. The film premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2022.
“RMN is as gripping and scrupulously humane as Mungiu’s admirers have come to expect from an artist of supreme discipline and dramatic skill” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Cristian Mungiu

Cristian Mungiu is a Romanian filmmaker born in Iaşi, Romania, in
1968.
His debut film, OCCIDENT / WEST, premiered in Directors’
Fortnight in Cannes in 2002 and was an audience hit in Romania.
In 2007, his second feature, 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS,
was awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes. The film later received
several best film of the year awards from various international
associations of film critics. It also won the European Film Academy
awards for Best Film and Best Director.
Mungiu returned to Cannes in 2009 as a writer-producer-codirector
with the collective episodic film TALES FROM THE
GOLDEN AGE, and as a writer-director in 2012 with BEYOND THE
HILLS – double awarded for Best Screenplay and Best Actresses.
BACALAUREAT / GRADUATION, his fifth film presented in Cannes,
won Best Director in 2016.