Rules Are Broken In New U.K. Trailer For Cristian Mungiu's Cannes-Winning 'Graduation'

How far would you go to ensure your daughter’s future? In Cristian Mungiu‘s (“4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days” and “Beyond The Hills“) new film “Graduation,” a father is in a moral and ethical bind that has unexpected consequences, in what looks like another terrific effort from the Romanian filmmaker.

Adrian Titieni, Lia Bugnar, Maria Dragus, and Malina Manovici all feature in the film that kicks off when the college-bound Eliza is the victim of an assault that could alter her plans forever. Here’s the official synopsis:

Romeo, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study abroad in the UK. But on the day before Eliza’s first entrance exam to university, she is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardise her entire future. Now Romeo has a decision to make: there are ways of solving her predicament, but not without betraying the moral principles that he, as a father, has taught Eliza throughout her life.

Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes last year, “Graduation” opens in the U.K. on March 31st and in the U.S. on April 7th.