THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD

17-year old Adi is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street and his world is turned upside-down. When the family is violently confronted with a truth they can neither understand nor accept, the unconditional love Adi should receive from his parents suddenly disappears, and Adi is left with only one solution. The film premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Queer Palm. The competes as the Romanian entry for the 2025 Oscar for Best International Feature.

Director Emanuel Pârvu

Born in 1979, Emanuel Pârvu is a film and theatre actor, director, writer and academic at the Faculty of Arts of the Ovidius University in Constanța. He graduated from the National University of Theatre and Cinema in Bucharest in 2006. As an actor, he performed in GRADUATION (d. Cristian Mungiu), MIRACLE (d. Bogdan George Apetri), TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE (d. C. Mungiu), PORTRAIT OF THE FIGHTER AS A YOUNG MAN (d. Constantin Popescu). He directed two feature films: MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS (2017) and MAROCCO/MIKADO (2021).

Awards: Winner of Queer Palm and nominee at Palme d'Or at 2024 Cannes Film Festival, winner of Heart of Sarajevo Best Film at 2024 Sarajevo Film Festival, and winner of Best Director Award for International Cinema. It was nominated at The Nechama Rivilin Award for Best International Film at 2024 Jerusalem Film Festival; for Best Film at 2024 Valladolid International Film Festival; for Best Feature Film at Romanian Days Award section of 2024 Transilvania International Film Festival; and for Gold Q-Hugo at 2024 Chicago International Film Festival.