Graduation (Romanian: Bacalaureat) is a 2016 tragedy film[1][2] produced, written, and directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Adrian Titieni and Maria-Victoria Dragus.

Set in Transylvania, the film focuses on a doctor's quest to fix his daughter's exam results by underhanded means.

The cast slows her writing and time runs out before she is finished - she will need nearly perfect results on the remaining exams to claim her scholarship.

At the police station the chief inspector suggests to Romeo that Eliza's exam results can be fixed in exchange for expediting a liver transplant for a corrupt official, a Mr. Bulai.

That evening Romeo discusses the plan with Magda and she immediately rejects it - she fears the corruption in Romania will affect Eliza's fresh start at Cambridge.

She listens to him but doesn't make any committed responses, and Romeo tells her to do what she thinks is best before he leaves to let her rest.

No longer able to ignore the affair, Eliza threatens to skip her exams if he doesn't tell Magda about it immediately.

The prosecutors caution Romeo they are aware of the quid-pro-quo arrangement for his daughter's exams - both he and Eliza could be facing charges.

Romeo visits the chief inspector again, who assures him that his daughter's assailant will soon be identified in a police line-up.

Eliza then says that the teachers gave her extra time to complete her exam, so she did not need to follow Romeo's plan for fixing her paper.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Graduation marks yet another well-written and powerfully acted look at morality and societal decay from writer-director Cristian Mungiu.

"[5] On Metacritic, Graduation holds a score of 84/100, based on 30 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

[8][9] At Cannes, Mungiu shared the Best Director Award with Olivier Assayas for his film Personal Shopper.