Men Of Deeds

Having failed to cut it in the city, Ilie — a mild-mannered small-town police chief in his late 30s — wants to build a modest comfortable life for himself in a rural village near the Ukrainian border in northern Romania, but he ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something - to build an orchard, even a home. Although dubious things happen in the village, Ilie sees only what suits him and his passivity during a series of violent events makes him an accomplice to murder. The moment he gets involved in the village marks the beginning of his collapse. In a vacuum of solutions, he tries to be what he has never been before: the justice-seeker who arrests everyone guilty.

Paul Negoescu

Born in 1984, Paul Negoescu studied film directing at the national film school in Bucharest. His short films screened in competition at many international festivals (including Cannes Semaine de la Critique and the Berlinale). His debut film, A Month in Thailand, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2012, while his second feature, Two Lottery Tickets, was one of the most successful Romanian films at the box office. His third feature, The Story of a Summer Lover, was distributed by Netflix in over 30 territories.