THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD

Synopsis

Adi (17) is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked 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 tranquility of the village starts to crack.

Statement of the director(s)

I have approached the idea of making this film from two intertwined perspectives – the family perspective, since I am a son, but also a father myself and secondly, the perspective of what I feel like a ubiquitous intransigence in a nowadays world sometimes only seemingly filled with understanding and tolerance. But mostly the story is my interpretation of the condition of minorities. We have all been where you are or you can feel like a minority one way or another or in a certain moment in time.
I was drawn by the contradictory feelings towards something you just cannot understand, the risk of labelling, the risk of social immobility. The opportunity to go back to love and understanding, the opportunity to protect and unconditional support arises within a context of a pure natural beauty – the Danube Delta is one of the most beautiful places in Europe, also the newest land in Europe. Because, in my mind, maybe we should all let nature teach us again beauty in all its forms.
Metaphorically speaking, from the place where the earth ends, the horizon is best to be seen. Danube Delta, our shooting location, is a visual paradise that contrasts aggressively with the events in the film. Human actions are thus contradicting nature, closing the horizon on a child by closing his future. And this paradox could only lead to tragedy.