Three Kilometres to the End of the World

Emanuel Pârvu's Three Kilometres to the End of the World premiered in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, where it won the Queer Palm, and went on to take the European University Film Award and the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature. It is the Romanian writer-director-actor's third feature, after Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things (2017) and Mikado (2021), and a small Romanian-language production from FAMart Production. The film was selected as Romania's submission for the 2025 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

Ciprian Chiujdea, in his first screen role, leads as Adi, opposite the Romanian New Wave veterans Bogdan Dumitrache (Child's Pose) and Laura Vasiliu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) as his parents and Valeriu Andriuță as the village policeman. Cinematographer Silviu Stavilă works in long, often static medium shots, with much of the film unfolding inside the family's slat-shuttered guesthouse. The dialogue is spare and the running time tight at 105 minutes; there is no score, only the low ambient sound of wind, water and the occasional fishing boat.

Critics in Variety, Le Monde and Cahiers du Cinéma received the film as a return of the early-2010s Romanian New Wave to the international competition stage and as one of the most pointed contributions to a recent wave of central and eastern European films about provincial communities and queer adolescence. The film swept Romania's Gopo Awards in 2025 (Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay) and went on to wide festival circulation across Europe.