John! Paul! George! Ringo! In the summer of 1965, it was all about the Beatles, as they prepared to perform at New York’s Shea Stadium. But “TWST – Things We Said Today,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is no ordinary “pop music documentary.” The film premieres with an exclusive clip below.

"It just doesn't interest me as a genre. Instead, I wanted to capture what was in the air at the time. That generation wasn't politicized yet, and the movement for social rights had just begun," says director Andrei Ujică.

He couldn't help but be fascinated by the Beatlemania that was sweeping through the country.

“Music has the power to create ecstatic feelings. The Beatles weren’t the first – earlier people talked about ‘Lisztmania’ [aimed at Hungarian composer Franz Liszt] and when Sinatra sang, women would faint in the rows,” Ujică says.