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Supporting Role (Andi Vasluianu) and Best Sound. It was also nominated for Best Feature Film, Directing, Screenplay, Actor in a Supporting Role (Ion Sapdaru), Cinematography, Costume Design, Production Design and twice for the Young Hope Award (Paul Ipate and Tudor Istodor).
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and other local films, while offering yet another intimate-scaled, off-center examination of the impact of 1989. ... Characters, who are hard to tell apart at first given grainy, umbral quality of high-def night shoot, gradually blossom into likeable, fully formed personalities. Using largely
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