Internal Zero

Section: Smart 7
Title: Interior Zero
Director: Eugen Jebeleanu
Cast: Cristina Drăghici, Cendana Trifan, Valentina Zaharia, Katia Pascariu, Alexandru Potocean, Ada Gales
Duration: 1h 40m
Country: România
Language: en/fr/ro
Year: 2025

Cristina, a 35-year-old secretary living in an alienating and hostile Bucharest, is trying to understand what it means being a bills-paying, ready-to-settle, social-ladder-climbing adult while still desperately wanting to be a good child for the single mom that raised her. She is also a character in a novel that a theatre director is turning into a feature. As the actors start setting into the story, their individual backgrounds, social circumstances and personal motivations begin to overlap with the fiction they were offered, making it their own, questioning it and shaping it.