Sorella Di Clausura

Welcome to Romania on the chaotic cusp of the 2008 global financial crisis. Stela (Pascariu) is a Timișoara textile worker who decides it’s now or never to act on her lifelong crush on Boban, an ageing Balkan crooner. Leaving her dreadful family and all inhibitions behind, Stela makes a beeline for Bucharest, where her dream of meeting Boban hinges on Vera Pop, a flashy-trashy demicelebrity and sex toy entrepreneur. Taking a cue from the cinema of Radu Jude, with whom writer-director Ivana Mladenović (Ivana the Terrible) has previously collaborated, this frisky and fiercely intelligent farce about carnal desire and social dysfunction is described by its maker as “a story suspended between reality and a dream.”