(Sun 24th - Tues 26th / 8pm / £4/3/2ttt)

(Cristian Mungiu / Romania / 2007 / 113 mins / Cert 15 / Romanian and English with English subtitles)

Surprise winner of the 2007 Palme D'or, the film takes place over the course of one day in 1987 in Communist Romania, Otilia helps her friend and roommate Gabita to get a late-term abortion done (at that time, any sort of abortion, as well as any kind of contraceptive were illegal in Romania). The film is very realistic and shows the rough and gritty situation in which the girls, particularly Otilia, must make decisions and deal with their consequences. Like 'The Lives of Others', the film depicts with harrowing detail the life for everyday people under a communist regime - not for the faint of heart!