Delia, a high school junior, has just won a brand new car in a contest sponsored by a soft drink company. Ecstatic, she heads to Bucharest with her parents to tape a TV commercial for the soft drink and collect her new car. Little does she know, her father wants her to sign the car over for him to sell before she's even gotten behind the wheel. In between takes of the commercial, which the crew, comically, can't get right, Delia and her parents wage a battle of wills. This debut feature by acclaimed short filmmaker Radu Jude wonderfully illuminates the generation gap between parents and children, and the pervasive influence of capitalism in the new Romania.

DIR/SCR Radu Jude; SCR Augustina Stanciu; PROD Ada Solomon. Netherlands/Romania/France/Japan, 2009, color, 100 min. In Romanian with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Friday, November 6, 7:15; Sunday, November 8, 12:45

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