Trailer
Synopsis
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A Sunday picnic seemed like the best way for Mihai and Sweetie to spend some quality time together and take their relationship to a new level. But a series of odd and unexpected events soon turn this idyllic weekend getaway into a very, very strange day.

Director
Director image

After studying film directing in Bucharest, Adrian Sitaru directs the short film “Waves” which brought him the Golden Leopard of Tomorrow in Locarno Film Festival. His debut feature film, “Hooked”, premiered at Venice Days in 2008 and established Sitaru as a new voice in Romanian post-communist cinema. Since then, his films gathered recognition from festivals such as Berlinale, Sundance, Palm Springs, Chicago, Thessaloniki and Sarajevo.

Awards+
Festivals
  • 65th Venice International Film Festival Venice Days 2008
  • 33th Toronto International Film Festival 2008
  • 52nd London International Film Festival 2008
  • 19th Stockholm International Film Festival 2008
  • 13th Busan International Film Festival 2008
  • 10th Bratislava International Film Festival 2008
  • Jury Prize
    2nd Estoril International Film Festival Portugal, 2008
  • Best Actress (Ioana Flora & Maria Dinulescu)
    49th Thessaloniki Film Festival Greece, 2008
  • Silver Alexander, Special Jury Award
    49th Thessaloniki Film Festival Greece, 2008
  • 8th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Film Festival 2008
  • 2nd Rome Film Festival 2008
  • Cineteca di Bologna 2008
  • Conférence du réseau EUROPA CINEMAS 2008
  • 14th Cinéma tout écrans Geneve, 2008
  • 35th Ghent Film Festival 2008
  • 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
  • 35th Seattle International Film Festival 2009
  • 26th Munich Filmfest 2009
  • 21st Palm Springs International Film Festival 2009
  • 5th Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival 2009
  • 37th Belgrade International Film 2009
  • Best Script
    25th Mons International Festival of Love Films Belgium, 2009
  • Best Actress (Maria Dinulescu)
    10th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Argentina, 2009
  • Grand Prize
    14th Ourense Independent Film Festival Spania, 2009
  • Bronze Grape Award
    38th Lubuskie Film Summer 2009
  • 9th ERA NEW HORIZONS International Film Festival 2009
  • 1st CinePécs Film Festival Budapest, 2009
  • New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize
    21st Palm Springs International Film Festival U.S.A., 2009
  • „Opera Prima” Award, UCIN Romania, 2009
  • 27th Miami International Film Festival 2009
  • 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2009
  • 16th Prague International Film Festival 2009
  • 26th Istanbul International Film Festival 2009
  • Romanian Film Centre London, 2009
  • 38th Lubuskie Lato Filmowe 2009
  • 5th Libertas Film Festival Dubrovnik, 2009
  • 9th ERA NEW HORIZONS International Film Festival Warsaw, 2009
  • 6th CineFest Miskolc Iternational Films of Young Filmmakers 2009
  • 11th Rio International Film Festival 2009
  • Romanian Film Week in Budapest Budapest, 2009
  • 9th Osians Festival New Dehli, 2009
  • 19th St. Louis International Film Festival 2009
  • CINEUROPA - St-Jacques de Compostelle 2009
  • 4th AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS 2009
  • L’Institut Culturel Roumain de New York New York, 2009
  • 24th Festival Cinéma Tous Ecrans 2009
  • 4th Balkan Snapshots Film Festival 2009
  • 13th Umbria Film Festival 2009
  • 1st International Film Festival Breda 2009
  • 11th Mumbai Film Festival 2009
  • 10th LECCE European Film Festival 2009
  • 26th Festival International du Premier Film d’Annonay 2009
  • 13th European Union Film Festival Chicago, 2010
  • Romanian Film Festival Madison, 2010
  • Czech Center New York, 2010
details
team
  • Director
    Adrian Sitaru
  • Scriptwriter
    Adrian Sitaru
  • Producers
    Marie-Pierre Macia, Juliette Lepoutre, Adrian Sitaru
  • Cinematographer
    Adrian Silișteanu
  • Editor
    Adrian Sitaru
  • Sound Designer
    Răzvan Dima, Yannick Coutheron
  • Music
    Cornel Ilie
Aspects
Technical
  • Running time
    80mins
  • Shooting format
    Digital
  • Screening format
    35mm, mov, mp4
  • Aspect ratio
    1:1.85
  • Sound
    DTS stereo