Tom Wilson

This slow-burning mysterious thriller follows Angela, a single mother of three daughters whose seemingly perfect life is turned upside down by a late-night arrival of an old family friend, Carmen. What does Carmen want and why has she come after all these years? This thriller "with an arthouse twist" was produced by renowned Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu and directed by British director Tom Wilson.

In 1989, Romania didn't have a revolution - it suffered a coup d'etat. The Romanian secret police knew that it was coming and had time to prepare for it. And so, in order to take advantage of the opportunities that would be presented by the free market, they started an experiment to turn 'socialist man' into 'capitalist man': The Bucuresti Experiment. The film follows the first man to take part in the experiment, Andrei Juvina. It looks at how the experiment destroyed his relationship with his former partner, Carmen Anton, a former popular singer. The experiment, however, never took place. The film is an intentionally disingenuous documentary about a country where the true history of the revolutionary years has yet to be written.