12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)

Sixteen years after the 1989 revolution, a small Romanian town's local TV station puts on a call-in talk show to settle one question: did the town take part in the revolution at all? Roughly half the film is that broadcast, played out in a one-camera studio, as guests contradict each other and callers from the town dismantle every heroic claim. Corneliu Porumboiu's debut won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes in 2006, and it shows how deadpan can make a solemn national story very funny. It runs about 89 minutes and needs no knowledge of Romanian history beyond that premise.