The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, resettle in a village set in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbours, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite their different education. When adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with some bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education that the Gheorghiu children get from their parents might have anything to do with it.
Cristian Mungiu is a Romanian filmmaker born in Iaşi, Romania, in 1968. His debut film, Occident, premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2002 and became an audience hit in Romania. In 2007, his second feature, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, was awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It also won the European Film Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Mungiu returned to Cannes in 2009 as a writer, producer, and co-director of the collective episodic film Tales from the Golden Age, and as a writer-director in 2012 with Beyond the Hills, which won awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress. R.M.N. premiered in competition at Cannes in 2022, while Bacalaureat (Graduation) won him the Best Director award at Cannes in 2016. Traffic, which he wrote and co-produced, represented Romania at the 2025 Academy Awards.