The Collective (2019)

This film is nominated for an Academy award in the documentary and the international film categories. It will outrage you and leave you feeling helpless. It is a look at the way a corrupt government functions without consequences or regret. It all began on October 30, 2015 at the popular Bucharest nightclub Colective. Goodbye to Gravity, a metalcore band, ended their set with a small pyrotechnics show, which very quickly leapt to the backstage walls, before igniting the ceiling. The entire club was engulfed within seconds. Twenty-seven people were killed that night, and 180 injured. Thirty-seven burn victims died in the hospital over the following months, not from their burns, but from infections acquired while in the hospital. The reporters who looked into the rates of hospital acquired infections and deaths found that they were not just astronimically high compared to other EU countries, but that they were caused by graft. Not because Romania doesn't pay for an adequate health care system but because many many people are skimming money out of it with no regard for who dies as a result. It is a scathing indictment without a happy ending.