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Three Kilometres to the End of the World
Three Kilometres to the End of the World
	Theatrical release poster
Romanian	Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii
Directed by	Emanuel Pârvu
Written by	Miruna Berescu; Emanuel Pârvu;
Produced by	Miruna Berescu
Starring	Ciprian Chiujdea; Bogdan Dumitrache; Laura Vasiliu; Valeriu Andriuță; Ingrid Micu-Berescu;
Cinematography	Silviu Stavilă
Edited by	Mircea Olteanu
Production; companies	FamArt Production; Romanian Film Centre; Publicis Groupe Media Bucharest; MMS Communications; House of Media;
Distributed by	Independența Film
Release dates	17 May 2024 (Cannes); 11 October 2024 (Romania);
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Romania
Language	Romanian
Budget	€1 million

Three Kilometres to the End of the World (Romanian: Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii) is a 2024 Romanian drama film directed by Emanuel Pârvu from a screenplay he wrote with Miruna Berescu.^[1]

The film had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, on 17 May 2024, where it was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or and won the Queer Palm.^[2]^[3] The film was chosen as the Romanian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.^[4]

Plot

Adi, 17 years, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally gaybashed on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquillity of the village starts to crack.

Cast

Ciprian Chiujdea as Adi^[5]
Bogdan Dumitrache as The Father
Laura Vasiliu as The Mother
Valeriu Andriuță as The Police Chief
Ingrid Micu-Berescu as Ilinca
Richard Bovnoczki
Adrian Titieni as The Priest
Alina Berzunţeanu
Radu Gabriel
Crina Semciuc

Production

The film was shot in the Danube Delta, more precisely in the Sfântu Gheorghe branch and the Dunavăț canal, during September and October 2023.^[1]

Release

The film was selected for the Main Competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 17 May 2024.^[6]^[7] In April 2024, Goodfellas acquired world sales rights to the film.^[8] Independența Film was distributed the film in Romania on 11 October 2024.^[9]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 67% of 15 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10.^[10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 7 critic reviews indicating "generally favorable" reviews.^[11]

Wendy Ide of Screen Daily wrote that Parvu "is confident enough as a storyteller not to feel the need to show everything. Not only do we not see the assault itself, only its aftermath when Adi stumbles home, but Parvu also lets Adi drift out of the frame during the charged nighttime conversation with the tourist. It’s a smart device – the film is Adi’s story, of course. But it’s also that of his parents (played by Bogdan Dumitrache and Laura Vasiliu), who struggle to see their actual son behind the distorting lens of who and what they believe he should be."^[12]

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
Cannes Film Festival	25 May 2024	Palme d'Or	Emanuel Pârvu	Nominated	^[13]
Cannes Film Festival	25 May 2024	Queer Palm		Won	^[14]
European Film Awards	7 December 2024	European University Film Award		Won	^[15]