The Christmas Gift

Section: International Competition II.
Director: Bogdan Muresanu
Runtime: 23 minutes
Links: Official site
Country: Romania/Spain

On the 20th of December, 1989, a few days after Ceausescu's bloody repression in Timisoara, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he finds out that his little son has mailed a wish letter to Santa. As the kid understood, his father’s desire was to see Ceausescu dead.