Calin Peter Netzer was born in 1975 in Petrosani, Romania. His first feature film MARIA (2003) was screened in prestigious festivals, won awards in Locarno (Special Prize of the Jury and the Bronze Leopard) and it was nominated for the EFA Awards. His second feature, MEDAL OF HONOR (2009), was selected in more than 30 festivals and awarded in Thessaloniki, Turin, Miami, Durres, Los Angeles and Zagreb. CHILD’S POSE (2013) received the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and is the only Romanian feature to have won this award.

Toma and Ana meet at university. A love affair begins that is full of hopes and dreams and suffused by the feeling that each needs the other in equal measure. Ana has a complicated family background and suffers from severe panic attacks. Middle-class Toma is as shocked as he is fascinated by the deep well of despair he encounters in his beloved. At the same time the two begin to isolate themselves from their families and friends.