Nasty

Bogdan Mureşanu’s polyphonic tragi-comedy tracks six interconnected stories to capture the mood in Romania on the brink of revolution in 1989.

Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in a big Flemish city. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Iță, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.

Escaping post-Communist Romania in a cargo ship's container bound for Canada, comedian Dora writes and performs new comedic material to the other two passengers in the container.

Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae Ceaușescu's dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the last witness to her sister's mysterious disappearance.

In this gripping documentary, filmmaker Lina Vdovii responds to her abusive father's plea for help -- a migrant worker in Italy who is being exploited by his employer.