The New Year That Never Came

The New Year That Never Came

The most unusual day.

2024138 min7.5 / 10

A darkly comic, interconnected portrait of ordinary people navigating absurdity, constraint, and yearning on the eve of historical upheaval.

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.

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