Moody and always intriguing, Cristian Mungiu’s “R.M.N.” is a tense parable focusing on social unrest and racist intolerance in Romania.
Written by Mungiu, this a film that focuses on those who set out to hate almost any identity that is different from theirs. These are communities in racial crisis.
Matthias (Marin Grigore), a German
The Cinefondation, which this year marks its twentieth anniversary, awarded prizes and money to three student filmmakers in a simple ceremony on Friday which was followed by a screening of the three winning films. Oscar winner Barry Jenkins was a part of a jury presided by Cristian Mungiu, recipient of the Palme D’Or in 2007. Other members of the jury included French actress Clotilde Hesme, filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari
Taking a real police case--it was also the subject of a novel called "Deadly Confession" (2006) by Romanian writer Tatiana Niculescu Bran--and fictionalizing it for the big screen, Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu took his new film "După dealuri" ("Beyond the hills" in Romanian) to Cannes and walked away with two wins (Mungiu previously earned the festival's top honor, the Palme D'Or): best screenplay, and his leads