The brave and socially engaged documentary 'Collective', which critics classify as the New Wave of Romanian Cinema, is going to be screened within the Mediterranean Film Festival OFF program, in partnership with the HBO Adria network.

Director Alexander Nanau's story about exposing corruption within the health care system in Romania is a criticism and an image of a not-so-great society and state system in general.

The starting point of this film is the fire that happened in 2015 at the Collective nightclub in Bucharest. That was one of the worst accidents in recent Romanian history with 27 dead and 180 injured people. In the next few days, intense protests erupted that eventually overthrew the then Social Democratic government. The director Nanau follows several key figures in the time after the disaster, that is, from the moment we find out that 37 of the injured in the fire later died as a result of a bacterial infection acquired in the hospital. Journalists discovered that hospitals use diluted disinfectants. We follow their statements and the statements of the Minister of Health in the interim technocratic government and the victims of the corrupt health system in a state that is not functioning.

The director is not subject to sensationalism, but observes this emotionally charged story from the outside, revealing the dark side of corruption that is increasingly corroding his country.

The fact that the film attracted the attention of the world public, audience and critics, is confirmed by the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, European Film Award, two Oscar nominations, LUX Audience Award and numerous other awards.