Friday, April 27th - 7:00 pm - Bell Auditorium  Saturday, April 28th - 12:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema   Director: Corneliu Porumboiu   The film is centered around a television debate show on a small-town station taking place exactly 16 years after the collapse of dictator Nicolae Ceausecu's Communist regime, exactly at 12:08 p.m. on December 22, 1989.

For this special anniversary episode, host Jderescu (Teodor Corban) for guests but only manages to find wanna-be heroes, hard-drinking history teacher, Manescu (Ion Sapdaru) and elderly retiree Piscoci (Mircea Andreescu) who works as a part time Santa Claus. His two dubious guests revel in the glory of the Revolution, proudly sharing stories of their heroic contributions to the town's own rebellion - but then viewers begin to phone in with their own recollections. Their testimonies cast doubt on the self-proclaiming militants' lofty assertions, tempering their braggadocio and opening up the discussion to include the whole community. Did anybody, in fact, rush the town square to chant against Ceausescu before that crucial moment eight minutes after noon? (Winner of the prestigious Camera d'or for best list feature at the 2006 Cannes festival), Corneliu Porumboiu's fascinating, whimsical film aptly conveys what it means to be doomed as a bystander in the backwaters and not a participant in your own epoch-making history while memory and myth work silently to mold the truth of events.

Cast: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru

In Romanian with English subtitles, Romania, 89 minutes, 2006, 35mm