If you wish for something hard enough, the whole Universe will work in your favor, right? Stela, educated but unable to hold down a job, fell in love with a famous Balkan musician after seeing him on TV. This passion transformed into obsession is taking over her life and now she must meet him. One of the musician’s supposed mistresses, Vera, a starlet-musician, promises to help Stela meet her idol and, even more, to take her away from her poverty-stricken rural life. Their two worlds collide when Vera brings Stela to Bucharest, where she runs a company that sells sexual products and lubricants
Returning to the Siskel for the first time since the pandemic, the Romanian Film Festival (ROFest. Trends) aims to bring recent acclaimed Romanian films to Chicago to promote Romanian contemporary cinema among the American public and, specifically, within the Romanian community. It encourages enrichment and exchange through various creative expressions of social, historical, and cultural aspects that stem from Romanian settings.