Men of Deeds (2022)

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Paul Negoescu despre film:
“My interest in these characters was their inability to adapt, as they are all unable to connect with their emotions, running from reality until fate forces a reality check upon them. Males are told from early childhood how they are expected to behave and what their purpose is in life: to be strong, to dominate and to be winners. Men are not allowed to cry or suffer. They are supposed to have a family, to get married and have children, to provide for and protect their families. And Ilie doesn’t fit these expectations at all,” 
”Northern Romania, where the story is settled, is a strongly patriarchal society, as most of the Eastern Europe is. Men are told since childhood how they have to behave and what is their goal in life: they have to be strong, to dominate, to be winners. Men are not allowed to cry. They must marry a wife and have children, provide and protect their family. ILIE isn’t like that at all. He failed in all these. He failed at having a family, he is a mediocre policeman who always runs away from conflicts, he is dominated by the people around him and when he finally gets a subordinate against which he tries to act as a superior, he only manages to be pathetic. And that wouldn't be such a problem if he wouldn't consider himself a looser. But he does feel like that, as he knows nothing about being a real man. When I realized this, not only I understood Ilie in a critical way, but it also gave me a more detached perspective of idiosyncratic manhood and this is something that interests me a lot.”