Curzon Artificial Eye 4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days

The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of communist-era romania.

gabita (laura vasiliu), young and naïve, is pregnant.

she turns to her more pragmatic room mate otilia (anamaria marinca) for help and a meeting is arranged in a downtown hotel with the shady mr bebe (vlad ivanov).

entering a dangerous and illegal underworld where the stakes are high and nothing is as it seems, the girls are set for a life-changing experience that neither will ever forget.

brilliantly observed, superbly performed and directed with quite astonishing flair, this tense, poignant and provocative film has been hailed as a modern masterpiece.