Cannes. A fost sau n-a fost?.

"Sixteen years after the revolution that freed Romania from Communist rule, there is still debate about whether it delivered all that was promised," writes Deborah Young in Variety. "The buoyant little comedy 12:08 East of Bucharest puts its finger on the problem in the best tradition of East European humor, savvy but concrete, gentle but sharp as a knife."

It screened in the Directors' Fortnight section and has won the Camera d'Or, the prize for a first film, presented this year by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Sandrine Bonnaire. Earlier, it won the Label Europa Cinéma award; related: Anne Feullère and Vitor Pinto for Cineuropa.

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