# Only Us > Haifa Events **Date:** 2026-10-21 **Venue:** סינמטק חיפה **Price:** from 42 ₪ **Category:** cinema **Event language:** he ## Description Country: Romania/Italy 2026 Director: Tudor Cristian Giurgiu Cast: Denisa Varaja, Vlad Fortuna, Mara Diaconu Ducicea ⏱ Runtime: 94 minutes 🌐 Language: Romanian 💬 Subtitles: Hebrew Flavia is a cynical, sarcastic teenager living alone in a small town in Romania after her parents left to work in Italy. She has to get by on her own with the little money they send her every month. She teams up with Luca and his sister, whose parents also went abroad to work, and together they try to adjust to adult life and build a strong friendship that turns them and their friends into a family of their own, with rules of their own. Boredom on one hand, and their parents' lack of purpose or prospects on the other, along with life's circumstances, force them to face challenges and discover the strength within them. A film that captures a phenomenon common around the world, and in Romania in particular — children left behind while their parents work abroad, and the harsh reality they face. With striking cinematography, authentic performances and a heartfelt cast, this coming-of-age drama becomes something special. The film screened at the Berlin and Jerusalem festivals. 94 minutes, Romanian, Hebrew subtitles. The 2026 edition of the Romanian Film Festival in Israel brings everything that's on Romanians' minds today: what's happening at home and what's happening beyond the country's borders, what's happening within the family and what's happening in society itself — a strong focus on the present without forgetting the past, all conveyed through stunning landscapes and a variety of genres and characters of all ages. This edition also lets festival-goers enjoy, ahead of the festival, the films of four young female directors who found original ways of their own to tell a story. Opening film: "Katana" is the most colorful and spectacular of all ten films in this edition, set in a small village in the Apuseni Mountains, where the residents find a way to outwit the authorities, until the authorities surprise them right back (inspired by a mix of Wes Anderson and Kusturica), "Only Us" is a gripping drama about the fate of children whose parents decide to work abroad for long stretches of time, who in turn must face everything life throws at them — beautifully filmed, with excellent performances from the children and teenagers in it, "Komtojen," winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Gopo Awards (the Romanian Oscars), tells the story of a single mother who will do anything to keep her teenage son out of prison, with the full story revealed through 4 different points of view of the 4 main characters, "The Heist of the Century," based on a true story written by Cristian Mungiu, tells the story of friends who find themselves outraged by the treatment of "foreign" workers in the Netherlands and decide to take revenge with a heist that shook all of Europe at the time, "Three Days in September" shows the fallout of a story about a betrayal revealed just moments before the wed **Tickets:** https://www.haifacin.co.il/Event/17517/ **Source:** cinehaifa **Image:** https://pub-0a891185c33b4c5a8db7ede117f7c8e7.r2.dev/haifa-events/cinehaifa/1763b2846e3ecee699139cc311e6427f.jpg --- **Canonical event page:** https://www.haifa.events/en/event/rk-anhno-oct-21/ **Other languages:** https://www.haifa.events/he/event/rk-anhno-oct-21/, https://www.haifa.events/ru/event/rk-anhno-oct-21/ Haifa Events is an aggregator. Verify the date, price, and ticket availability on the official website before purchase.