Mild-mannered Nelu works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is a place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means possible, to Hungary and then further into Western Europe. For Nelu, each day is mostly the same: fishing at dawn, then work, and finally home to his wife, Florica, in their isolated farmhouse. One morning, Nelu fishes something totally different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verbally, the two men still understand each other to a certain extent. Nelu takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. Morgen, Nelu tells him, tomorrow things will work out. Marian Crisan’s poignant comic drama highlights the wonderful, unexpected kindness of average people and the utter absurdity of borders.

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Set against the stanch bureaucratic backdrop of international border politics, "Morgen" is an oddball, gently-observed, fish-out-of-water tale that leaves an impression despite its languid, low-key tone. (Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen)

Locarno Film Festival (2010) – Jury Prize
Thessaloniki Film Festival (2010)
Hong Kong International Film Festival  (2011)

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