Daniel got lucky tonight: this time he is not going home alone again. But is that enough to pull him out of his reality?
Acting
Bîrzanu's silent devastation speaks volumes in 15 minutes
Direction
Dogaru lets awkwardness breathe until it suffocates
Director
George Dogaru
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Romanian shorts exploring queer masculinity in a still-conservative post-communist context. The film festival circuit ate this up while mainstream audiences bounced hard.
Dogaru reportedly shot this in his actual apartment with friends — that cramped, lived-in authenticity isn't production design, it's just life.