Romanian Film Festival Seattle: Traffic
November 14, 2026
Presented by the American Romanian Cultural Society. A young Romanian couple working in Western Europe orchestrates an ambitious art museum heist after the woman is assaulted.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
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Saturday, November 14, 2026
Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in a big Flemish city. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her. Ita uses their frustration against the values of a world they consider to be arrogant, decadent, and historically guilty for their misery as second-rate citizens – invisible migrants. The result is a tragi-comical, ideological heist only revealing the complete lack of communication between East and West, between rich and poor, between masters and slaves.
- Country: Romania
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 119 min.
- Language: Romanian, with English subtitles
- Has Subtitles: Yes