38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Pescuit Sportiv
Romania
2008 Fiction 1h24
In the minds of Mihai and Iubi, this Sunday picnic in the countryside was the perfect way of having a good time together, and also talking about the future of their couple and maybe find a new level of intimacy and complicity. This was without counting on a series of unexpected events which would take this apparently idyllic outing to a very strange dimension...
With : Adrian Titieni, Ioana Flora, Maria Dinulescu, Alexandru Georgescu
Screenplay : Adrian Sitaru
Image : Adrian Silisteanu
Sound : Marius Constantin, Titi Fleancu
Music : Cornel Ilie
Editing : Adrian Sitaru
Production : Movie Partners in Motion Films, 4 Proof Film
Distribution: Rezofilms // 29 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris // Tel : +33 1 42 46 96 10 / Fax : +33 1 42 46 96 11 // Email : florent.bugeau@rezofilms.com // Site web : www.rezofilms.com
Born in 1971, Adrian Sitaru graduated in IT and cinema. After having made several shorts, including Waves in 2007, which won awards in several festivals (Locarno, Sarajevo, Namur...) and some TV dramas, he went on to directing his first feature, Picnic. He is currently working on a new projects, For Love With Best Intentions, selected for Cinéfondation in Cannes, the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam and Cinémart at the Rotterdam Festival. "I've always been interested in human behaviour. Unlike other species, our behaviour is often absurd, governed by an innate sense of self-destruction. From the time when I began writing the script for Picnic, I always "saw" the story from the point of view of each of the characters, hence my choice for a subjective camera. This helped me to show, without necessarily "telling", that everything that was happening was the result of the point of view of someone on the outside: this presence could be called God, and angle, the director or any other presence looking on...".