CINEOS Premiere
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
One woman helps her friend through an illegal abortion across a single day in Ceaușescu's Romania — and the ordinary world turns, hour by hour, into a machine of quiet terror.
It refuses to cut away and refuses to give you music to hide behind, holding each real-time scene until your body can't find anywhere to rest. There's no catharsis at the end — the film simply deposits its weight, a kind of contamination, and walks away, leaving you to carry what the two women agree never to speak of again.
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FAQ
Is it graphic?
It looks away from almost nothing, but not for shock — the refusal to flinch is how it makes you feel the true cost of what the state has forced these women to do.
Why is it shot so plainly?
The flat, hand-held realism is the strategy: no beauty, no music, no relief. You're made a witness in real time, which is exactly what makes it unbearable and unforgettable.