California Dreaming (2018)

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Romanian director Cristian Nemescu’s comedy California Dreamin’ (aka Nesfarsit, 2007) unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, circa 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet, transporting a plethora of weapons across the country — without official documents, and equipped only with the verbal consent of the Romanian authorities. The transport thus grows intensely vulnerable.