CARBON

By Ion BORȘ

YOUBESC CREATIVE INSTITUTE - as PROD

Black comedy - Completed 2022

On their way to the front in Transnistria, two friends who recently signed up for the army find a carbonized body and are sent on an absurd journey with a tractor to discover its identity.

Festivals
& Awards

RAVAC IFF 2018
RAVAC Pitch - Best Pitch
Connecting Cottbus 2019
Best Pitch
Transilvania International Film Festival 2019
TPS - CoCo Award
Kinopavasaris 2020
MPV - Coming Soon Session
SSIFF 2021
WIP EUROPA AWARD
San Sebastian 2022
New Directors
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Black comedy, First film, Road movie
    • Countries
    • MOLDOVA, ROMANIA, SPAIN
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ion BORȘ
    • Writer(s)
    • Mariana STARCIUC
    • Producer(s)
    • Sergiu CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC CREATIVE INSTITUTE (DAX TANDEM SRL)), Ion BORȘ (Kantora Film Production), Sergiu PASCARU (Pascaru Production), Sergiu PASCARU (Maya Films Studio), Marin CUMATRENCO (BADEAMIC), Garri COVALSCHI (Hermes NVC), Vasilii TIPA (TVA Logistics), Luis COLLAR (NEPHILIM PRODUCCIONES), Marin CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC AYA), Sergiu CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC AYA), Nicolae POPESCU (Hermes NVC), Veaceslav CIOBANU (Hermes NVC)
    • Synopsis
    • Moldova in the early 90s: DIMA, a tractor driver, wants tobe enrolled in the military troops to take part in the local war on the Transnistrian border. VASEA, an Afghanistan war veteran, joins him. While on their way to the front, they find a carbonized body. Authorities ignore them and don't help them to identify the body. Dima and Vasea decide to bury the corpse according to the proper Christian rituals, but shortly they will go, together with the body, on an absurd journey to discover his identity.