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Archive - Festival 42

A title that lands with both irony and pain – is an X-ray of overwhelming solitude, an exploration of an inner world collapsing under the weight of crushed hopes and a sadness that can’t be mended

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  • Archive - Festival 42
  • Director: Cecilia Stefanescu
  • Romania 2025
  • 103 minutes
  • Romanian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Lucia is spending her vacation with her husband, their son, and a couple of friends at the seaside, in a small Bulgarian village near the Romanian border. Delighted by the villagers' hospitality and the long, sunny day, the group enjoys a peaceful holiday. Everyone does, except Lucia, who seems melancholy and unsettled. The arrival of Vladimir, a Romanian who seems to know the area quite well, brings a spark of excitement. He may also know Lucia.

Cecilia Stefanescu: “I wanted to speak about personal, social, and physical boundaries - about crossing them or their brutal violation, about irreconcilable positions.”

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  • Director Cecilia Stefanescu
  • Production Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu, Bogdan Crăciun
  • Script Cecilia Stefanescu
  • Cinematography Luchian Ciobanu
  • Editing Roxana Szel
  • Music Sebastian Zsemlye
  • Festivals Tallinn Black Nights
  • Actors Marina Palii, Virgil Aioanei, Emil Măndănac, Bianca Cuculici, Rolando Matsangos
  • Source Reason8

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