Kinotopia

Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.

In Egyptian mythological times, the god Osiris and the goddess Isis reign over the land. They fell in love at birth, sharing an eternal love. They are extremely benevolent to their people. Egypt is prosperous, with luxuriant, fertile natural surroundings and plentiful harvests. Seth, however, is a dry, jealous god, who reigns over the desert. During a feast organised in honour of Osiris, he slaughters him, hides his body in a chest and throws it into the Nile. A terrible drought descends upon Egypt, and Seth seizes power. In despair, Isis sets out to find the chest and her husband. A long quest thus begins along the Nile river. A quest that will determine the fate of Egypt, during which love will conquer Death…

A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.