Discoveries from Romania World Cinema

Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.

Vlad, a young boy living in a remote village wants to follow his dream of adventure and tires to run away from home and an over religious family.

A man and a woman, eager for happiness and romance, encounter the desired reality, but fail to recognize it, preferring to take refuge in a space on the border between the concrete world and dreaming.

A love story between a man, a woman and his violin through the past and the present. It's a common story about life, death, passion and transmission. A cinematographic essay at the border of fiction and documentary.

When young Daria enters rehab to kick the drug habit her first love left her with, her perceived innocence saves her from the sexual advances of the mostly male junkies inside and gains her their protection. Suddenly thrown into the spotlight and enjoying the attention, Daria soon finds out that special treatment comes at a great price.

Queen Maria of Romania, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, ruled the country during World War I and 1918, achieving international recognition. Despite personal struggles, she was banished from court by Carol's son.

Dan, a twenty-something security specialist, receives an ominous phone call. A spa resort. A high-profile client who triggers a game of unclear stakes. Dan gets a chance to go from nobody to somebody.

This documentary is meant to open a window, past prejudice and intolerance, into the lives of Cristi and George, two young men whose only crime is that they are deeply in love.

This film si about the sabotage of a Nazi fluvial transport on the Danube during WWII.

Two characters, one taxi, a crisis and a compromise.

Cătălin, a guru, is followed by a team of documentarians who are recording his attempt to spread his vision of life.

"This World is My Arena" is the story of George Balta, a rugby player paralyzed in an accident, who reinvents himself as a wheelchair marathoner and motivational speaker.

Two Romanian soldiers manage to escape from a camp in Tatra mountains, Czechoslovakia.

Although he hates dogs, Toni is engaged in finding lost animals and then sentimentally blackmails the masters in order to obtain beautiful large amounts of money. Because of an old and ugly Pekinese that Toni cannot succeed of getting rid of, feelings of affection awake in him that surprise even Toni.

Sabin, a mailman stressed by debt, and Gheorghe, his childhood friend, end up in a neighborhood bar, gambling pension money on slot machines. Amid alcohol, conflicts erupting with the bar owner, and a local thug, the two must confront their own mistakes and limitations.

On a hot summer day, Vasile, a 50-something year old peasant, refuses to accompany his wife Lucretia to a religious ceremony arguing he has to finish the ditch in front of their house to avoid paying a fine. Scared by the hard work ahead of him, he tries to find somebody to help him. Petre, a Gypsy young man seems to be the right person. After changing a few words with him, Vasile notices that Petre is upset because none of the villagers wants to be the Godfather for his kid. Vasile decides to baptize the child himself asking Petre in exchange to help him finish the ditch. In the evening, Lucretia learns about Vasile's decision and a new ordinary domestic fight starts between them.

The perfect online couple meets face to face for the first time.

Deep in an uncharted forest, an isolated ornithologist discovers a wild child captured in a grainy video, recorded by one of the infrared cameras he had hidden among the trees.

A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.

A psychedelic, substance-infused party. There's a predator. And there's a victim.

Entering an antique shop, a young man finds an intriguing drawing which is hiding a secret, 70-year-old love letter on the back. After finding out that the 105-year-old author is still alive, and determined to find out if the story is real, the man goes on an unusual journey

Three sisters that had a tranquil life in a town suffer dramatic life changes at the end of WW2.

Ion is the head of workers' team who install high-voltage lines in the mountains. He discovers a design error that could put many lives in jeopardy and knows that the chief designer is Valeria, his ex-girlfriend from adolescent days.

In the Danube Delta, people are guided by archaic beliefs not understood by others. Not even the Earth is in harmony with their antiquated habits, and digging up the dead after ten years to wash their bones can Skiddle into an unpleasant event. But members of a family in Saint George decide to ignore the priest's requirement to stop digging for bodies, believing that they are doing the right thing according to Customs and customs.

An engine driver is taken prisoner in 1944 and ends up in a camp behind enemy lines. He escapes together with a soviet prisoner and a professor and make their way back to Romania.

“Climbing Shadows” follows Răzvan Nedu, a young Romanian who refuses to be defined by disability. Both coach and elite athlete, he balances earning a living while competing at the Salt Lake City World Cup in the USA, pursuing a podium spot in the world of climbing.

In an attempt to come to terms with his life, Anton has one last shot at reconciliation with his thoughts and, therefore, with himself.

"A planet of beings learning to crawl, walk and eventually fly." (YouTube user Kevinedge)

Vadim, convinced his girlfriend Simona, to make an abortion. His way to the clinic is interrupted by a range of obstacles. Once arrived at the doctor, Simona doesn't find Vadim. Suddenly, Vadim finds himself between life and death. In the end, a miracle happens and resolves everything.

A filmmaker wants to create a film about her childhood, and she's looking for a child to star in it. This movie is purely visual, there are no dialogues or story per se.

Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts.

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Most of the Gypsy population of Clejani, a village located some 50 km away from Bucharest, traditionally consists of musicians going back for many generations. The film shows how the musicians relate to daily life and the way their perception of reality influences their music. Firm belief in superstitions, the unavoidable blows of fate, communication with the dead, become the sources of inspiration and expression, of joy and sorrow. Alexandra Gulea’s unconventional documentary takes us on a musical journey to the origins of romanian gypsy music.

Darclee is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want.

An aspiring screenwriter and pathological daydreamer finds his wish magically manifested by a mysterious organization. To make sense of it all he must sift through memories, delusions and instances of both waking and imagined life.

Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.

What does it mean to “live” after experiencing war? Four Romanian survivors of the Afghanistan conflict share — for the first time — their invisible wounds and path to recovery.

A persian is trialed for supposedly raping the queen in a contemporaneous Ancient Greece.

Two families of petty crooks, one in Bucharest and the other one in Chisinau, give each a burglary. The first one from Bucharest steal a famous painting in a museum, others break the home of a rich man in Chisinau and they obtain also a valuable painting. Proudly shows off its prey: Woman with Black Tie by Modigliani. Yes, the same painting twice! Stupor and prestige wrinkling. But whose is the original and who stole the fake?—Adrian Popovici

A visceral exploration of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" that follows the trials of a Romanian philanderer named Momo.

Teenager Mihai decides one night to pay a visit to Cristina, one of his classmates that he is madly in love with. On the way, he goes through a series of adventures that change him irreversibly.

He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else.

Lili, a 36 years old female taxi driver, is trying to save her marriage with Dani, an amateur fisherman.

At the beginning of the 40's, Victor (Gabriel Oseciuc) is a young Communist who has been hiding for months in a built-in room to print out on his own the free newspaper Communist Command.

Costi (30) suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, and arrange a surprise reunion with the rest of the family that Sandu has neglected all his life. It's Costi's way of running away from his own couple issues for a day.

Sami and Dora are husband and wife, they have an age-gap marriage filled with compromises. Now they are waiting the social worker from the adoption agency to come at their home to decide if they are eligible to adopt a child. But they are caught in a moral dilemma: can buying a life be the price of saving their own relationship?

A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.

When her fiancé’s mistress crashes her wedding, Bianca flees the scene, launching a real-time odyssey of chaos and eventual liberation through an off-season seaside resort.

Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges.

Secluded for ages inside his tower, a Knight is awoken from his slumber by a mysterious whisper.

For Luca's 18th birthday, his parents buy him a new car as a gift. Meanwhile, their son is bleaching his hair. The mother has the impossible mission of hiding the two surprises.

Robinson is a doctor and unlike Robinson Crusoe, his solitude is voluntary but his island in the Mediterranean Sea is invaded by migrants, NGOs, guards. Friday is a castaway, the only one from his boat to have survived when sailing from Africa to Italy. During his strolls on the island, Robinson confronts his own solitude by keeping a diary - that works like augmented reality - filled with extraordinary beings and events, which both fill and trouble his daily life.

Three young men from western Europe are bringing humanitarian aid to a remote Transylvanian village. They’ll also be the recipients of a little humanitarian aid themselves.

The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.

Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.

Film inspired by a short story of the same name by Vasile Voiculescu. During the Second World War a Romanian army unit, isolated in a strange landscape, is visited by a German general. The disappearance of a valuable postage stamp - the head of a zebu - dating back to the sec. The disappearance of a valuable 19th-century stamp head - a 19th-century stamp head - during this visit creates a highly tense situation.

In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.

Two young people raised in an orphanage struggle to find meaning and direction in their lives amidst the chaos of post-communist Romania's transition.

Nothing about Love tells the story of two women and two men, involved in an emotional cataclysm. The movie tries to capture and analyze those delicate moments of our lives when we perceive love as being a disease of the soul.