37th edition
18-26 january 2025
Image Morgen
RomaniaFranceHungary
2009 Fiction 1h40
Nelu, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. For NELU, days go by the same. Fishing at dawn, then work, and finally home with his wife-FLORICA. They live alone at an isolated farmhouse on the fields outside Salonta. Their problem these days is repairing the old roof of the farmhouse. One morning, NELU will "fish" something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. He doesn't really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN...
With : András Hatházi, Yilmaz Yalcin, Elvira Rîmbu, Dorin C. Zachei, Molnar Levente, Răzvan Vicoveanu
Screenplay : Marian Crişan
Image : Tudor Mircea
Sound : Călin Potcoavă
Editing : Tudor Pojoni
Production : Slot Machine
Email : lotmachine@slotmachine.fr
Co-production : Mandragora Email : anca@mandragora.ro
Distribution: Les films du Losange //
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Email : a.valentin@filmsdulosange.fr
"In 2007, I was on Christmas holidays in my hometown of Salonta. It's a small town, on the Romanian-Hungarian border. It was a cold winter and I was sitting inside reading and stuff. I like to read local papers when I am there. There was a brief article about two Turkish immigrants that were caught by the border police in a freezing canal while trying to cross illegally. This small paragraph stuck with me for some time. My hometown is quiet and the people there are quiet and nice. I started imagining a story that could take place there, and a relationship between a local, common guy and an immigrant. I was just playing with the idea, but it slowly turned into a script. (...) Illegal immigration is an unseen world. It's on the news all over the world, but the fact is that nobody really cares about the immigrants as individuals and nobody really understands their problems. It was a challenge to talk about this."