12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost) (12A)

This Romanian satire, written and directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, is not so much deadpan as drop dead-pan. The drama is played strictly for wry smiles rather than laughs and it requires some patience, but when it works it works a treat.

It's 16 years after the revolution that toppled the notorious Ceausescu and his even more notorious wife. In a town east of Bucharest a local TV station so poor it makes STV look like NBC commemorates the event by holding a phone-in programme with two heroes who claim to have taken to the streets at 12.08, the exact moment the dictator fled the capital.

As the programme progresses, it is clear from the public's calls that all may not be as it seems. Mircea Andreescu and Ion Sapdaru are the part-time Santa and full time drunkard who have come to bask in glory; Teodor Corban is magnificently grumpy as the Paxman of the Balkans, determined to get at the truth.