Scanorama
Scanorama

November 5 - 22

2026

Open My Festival
Special programme „Crossing Europe“

California Dreamin' (endless)

2 hr. 35 min. | Drama, Comedy, War | N/A

1999s, there is a war going on in Kosovo. A local mafia, the head of a small Romanian rural train station, stops a NATO train carrying military equipment. The train, accompanied by American soldiers, crosses Romania with only the verbal permission of the Romanian government. No documents. This stay turns the village into a land of great potential.

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Cristian Nemescu

Cristian Nemescu

Cristian Nemescu (1979-2006) gained his diploma in 2003 from the Theatre and Film Academy in Bucharest. He wrote and directed five short films, nearly all awarded at domestic and foreign festivals and then moved on to his first feature film "California Dreamin (Endless)". Nemescu and his sound editor were killed in a car crash when they returning from thr cutting room after working together on Nemescu's debut. This film was shown in Scanorama.
Languages
Romanian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)
Produced
2007: Romania

Film information

Director
Cristian Nemescu
Screenplay
Cristian Nemescu, Tudor Voican, Catherine Linstrum
Cinematography
Liviu Marghidan
Cast
Assante, Razvan Vasilescu, Jamie Elman, Maria Dinulescu, Ioan Sapdaru, Andi Vasluianu
More information
www.imdb.com
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