Shelter

12-year-old Rado disappears from home and is gone for a whole weekend. His mother is worried and reports him as missing. His father mainly gets angry. When he returns, Rado has two punk rockers in tow. The situation becomes complicated when the mother is to make lunch for this motley crew. Here different thoughts and manners are contrasted in a sometimes very comical way. We recognise the tone from several Romanian films. The script-writer is Ratzan Radulescu, who among other things wrote the festival film Tuesday, After Christmas. Shelter is an intimate family drama that addresses the generation gap in a swiftly changing society. First-time director Dragomir Sholev has succeeded in assembling a great cast for his debut. –Göteborg International Film Festival