HOLY WEEK

The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.

Director Andrei Cohn 

Born in Bucharest in 1972, Andrei Cohn is trained in Fine Arts before turning to directing and screenwriting. After a series of short films in the early 2010s, Cohn directs his first feature, BACK HOME in 2015, then AREST in 2019. The latter was presented in competition at Karlovy Vary, at the Transilvania International Film Festival and the Cairo Film Festival. HOLY WEEK is his third feature film.

Awards: Winner of Heart of Sarajevo Prize for Best Actor at Sarajevo Film Festival in 2024.