12:08 East of Bucharest

The premise of Corneliu Porumboiu’s dark political comedy is simple yet brilliantly caustic. In a rundown town 16 years after the fall of dictator Ceauşescu, a pretentious local TV presenter decides to mark the anniversary with a phone-in programme looking back on that glorious day and asking: Was there a revolution in their town? He rounds up a couple of talking heads – a depressed, drunk schoolteacher and a grouchy pensioner – to recall the events. The resulting broadcast is a comic gem that equally raises issues about the state of the former Soviet Bloc.