 The movie was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.Nemescu was killed in a car crash in Bucharest that also killed Romanian-born sound engineer Andrei Toncu.Nemescu and Toncu were riding in a taxi that was struck on Eroilor Bridge by a Porsche Cayenne SUV driven by a British citizen (Ali Imran) who ran a red light.