CALIFORNIA DREAMIN IN SOUTH AFRICA

This ambitious, sharp and hilarious satire of petty bureaucracy and cultural misunderstandings is set in a small Romanian town during the 1999 Kosovo confict. A US-manned NATO train bound for the border unexpectedly reaches the end of the line when a stubborn and pedantic tation master applies the brakes over a paperwork technicality. Sensing golden opportunity to proft from the Americans' unexpected presence, he local community go to ridiculous lengths to welcome them, while the stranded troops' hard-bitten and increasingly frustrated captain (Armande Assante) decides to take matters into his own hands