Holy Week (CinEast Festival)

Festival CinEast

Holy Week

Săptămâna mare Roumanie-Suisse 2024 | Andrei Cohn | vostEN | 133' | digital | Cast : Doru Bem, Ciprian Chiricheș, Mario Dinu, Nicoleta Lefter, Cristina Flutur

► Forum, Berlinale 2024

► Meilleur Acteur, Festival de Sarajevo 2024

In the face of relentless pressure from a village steeped in prejudice and anti-Semitism, Leiba, a Jewish innkeeper in 1890s Romania finds himself trapped in a suffocating web of fear and hate. As real danger and imagined fears start to blur together in his mind, Leiba slips down a dark and dangerous path with terrifying consequences.

« A compelling, relevant, timely and universal meditation on xenophobia, aided by excellent performance. » (Cineuropa)

« …a world as beautiful in its rural simplicity as it is tainted by prejudice and simmering conflicts, witness to a vicious and endless cycle of hatred, as the director describes it. » (Films in Frame)