“The Christmas Gift”, Awarded at the Short Film and Animation Festival in Barcelona

     The Christmas Gift / Cadoul de Crăciun, directed by Bogdan Mureșanu, won the Grand Prize of the International Jury at the 21st edition of the Mecal International Short Film and Animation Festival, which took place in Barcelona, from March 28 to April 14, 2019. 
     The letter that a boy wrote to Santa Claus turns his father`s evening into a thriller. On December 20, 1989, a few days after the bloody repression that took place in Timișoara, to his horror, his father finds out that his son sent a letter to Santa Claus, in which he said what he wanted. The boy had understood that his father wanted Ceaușescu dead.
     Details: Mecal