''What a Wonderful World'' ( ro, Ce Lume Minunată) is a 2014
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
n film directed and written by Anatol Durbală, set during the
April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests.
Plot
A 22-year-old Moldovan comes home from
Boston, Massachusetts and finds himself in the midst of
a major protest.
Reception
At the 2014
Warsaw Film Festival
Warsaw Film Festival ( pl, Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy, abbreviated as WFF) is an annual film festival held every October in Warsaw, Poland which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world. The festival ha ...
, Durbală won the FIPRESCI Prize. At the 2015
Independent Film Festival Boston
The Independent Film Festival Boston is a not for profit film festival in Boston, Massachusetts.
History
The Independent Film Festival Boston (also known as IFFBoston or IFFB) was created in 2003 by the non-profit organization the Independent ...
it won Best Director, Best Foreign Film and Best Writing awards. Controversially, the film was not submitted for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, despite
Moldova submitting films in the two previous years; this was presumed to be because the political content was embarrassing to the Moldovan government.
References
External links
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Moldovan drama films
2014 films
Films directed by Anatol Durbală
2010s Romanian-language films
Films set in Moldova
2014 directorial debut films
Films set in 2009
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