VARVARA

By Anatol DURBALA

YOUBESC CREATIVE INSTITUTE - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2023

A young natural gas plumber is forced to decide between drilling through an icon in the church and destroying it, or save it by accepting drastic consequences.

Festivals
& Awards

Transilvania IFF 2018
TPS - Romanian CNC Development Award
FILM+ 2019
Develpment Projects
Sarajevo FF 2019
Talents Sarajevo, Pack & Pitch
Bridges Film Days @BOZAR 2020
East Film Projects
Meeting Point Vilnius 2022
Coming Soon Projects
San Sebastian 2022
WIP Europa
Zurich FF 2023
Feature Film Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, Social issues, Second film
    • Countries
    • MOLDOVA, ROMANIA
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN, ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Anatol DURBALA
    • Writer(s)
    • Anatol DURBALĂ
    • Producer(s)
    • Sergiu CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC CREATIVE INSTITUTE (DAX TANDEM SRL)), Sergiu CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC AYA), Marin CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC AYA), Sergiu PASCARU (Pascaru Production), Sergiu PASCARU (Maya Films Studio), Marin CUMATRENCO (BADEAMIC), Vasilii TIPA (TVA Logistics), Garri COVALSCHI (Hermes NVC), Nicolae POPESCU (Hermes NVC), Veaceslav CIOBANU (Hermes NVC)
    • Synopsis
    • Sasha works for a natural-gas company. When his wife hardly gives birth 2 months early, Sasha is searching for money to save the premature baby. Despite this, he refuses to take bribes, which threatens his job and leads to friction with his colleagues. His wife doesn’t understand him anymore. Faced with a crisis, Sasha receives an order to install a furnace in a church, where he will have to destroy an icon painted on the church wall. Hoping to save the sacred image, Sasha has to corrupt the system.