The film follows Costica Arhir as he raises his three children in a village in Moldavia. The children's mother has gone abroad to find work, as much of Moldavia's population has. The film, shot between January and April 2007, uses some fictional elements to create a stage where the characters interpret themselves.
The Mediawave prize for best documentary went to the Bulgarian director Andrej Paounov for his film Problemat s komarite i drugi istorii (The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories). Paounov examines the dark past of a small town about to become the home to a nuclear power plant in the film.
The KPMG Prize for a Responsible Society went to the Polish director Marcin Sauter for his film Pierwszy dzien (The First Day), about a group of children moved from the tundra to an urban environment.
The prize for best experimental film went to the Hungary's Lassú Tükör (Slow Mirror) by the brothers Igor and Ivan Buharov.
The city of Győr recognised the Russian director Pavel Medvedev for his post-apocalyptic film Na tretej planete ot solnca (On the 3rd Planet From the Sun).
The prize for best film for young people was presented to the Hungarian director Lili Horváth for Uszodai tolvaj (Swimming Pool Thief), about a small-town swimming pool and the teenagers it draws in the summertime.
The prize for best cinematographer was awarded to the Hungarian Mátyás Erdély for his work in Türelem (With a little patience).
The special jury prize went to the Polish director Rafal Skalski for 52 procent (52 percent), about a hopeful ballerina whose legs are too short, and to the Russian Alexey Fedorchenko for Pervye na Lune (First on the Moon).
Sixty-one films were selected from more than a thousand entries to participate in competition at the festival. An additional 30-40 were shown outside of the competition.
