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On the day of her first anniversary with Ștefan, Ana offers him an unexpected present – she agrees to be surrogate mother for the baby Ștefan cannot have with his wife. In the end, Ștefan realizes that he wants something else, but it is far too late.
Children who are born in family feuds, automatically become grown men, from very early ages. Just because it is a traumatic reality, precisely because we don't read on their faces innocence, happiness or desire to live his childhood, but the weight that burdened his life. The 19 years old young girl is the only source of income support and family. Kiddo is passionate about boxing and the ring is her only refuge.
Two friends hatch a plan to pour LSD into the drinking water system under the People's House, but first they have to get rid of them.
Mixed media animation self-portrait of the artist.
On August 23rd, 1944, the fascist regime was taken down and Romania changed sides in World War II. 75 years later, inside the Jewish Retirement Home, four of the last survivors of racial persecutions reflect upon the personal and political significance of the event. The different attitudes of the protagonists, their passionate debates and irresolvable conflicts reflect the diversity of the Jewish survivors` experiences, the cleavages in the community and the Romanian society as a whole, as well as the importance and controversy of the events in 1944.
The story of a young man and his fight to accept his three identities and the shame that goes with it: being an abandoned child, being Roma and gay. We follow Nicu throughout a day: on the streets of Bucharest while he goes to his job.
Rabbit Meat tells the story of Edy, a shy bodybuilder who is trying to find a girlfriend.
Arguing with his parents, Petre, a teenager, moves at his bigger brother, Andrei, a successful actor. There he meets Dora, one of his brother's young fans. When Andrei gives the girl his attention, Petre feels abandoned and runs away without even taking the hundred lei bill his brother had given him. A car runs Petre down. When he learns about this tragic accident, Andrei realizes - while watching his own smiling face in a musical on TV - that underneath his glittering success, he lives an empty life.
The director and her father take a camera in hand and film each other during interviews in which they discuss schizophrenia, their own pasts, and their personal conceptions of happiness. The film is a personal statement of two people affected by or marked by a mental disorder - a father forced to live with it and a daughter who had to grow up with a sick and often absent father. During filming, they try to find understanding for each other while revealing their inner traumas. One of the secondary topics is what it is like to undergo treatment for a mental disorder in Romania, as the father expresses frustration with the way he and his condition are viewed by the local healthcare system.
Musical comedy in 2 acts. The scenery represents "a country manor house", with the main character, Chirita Barzoi's house on the left, on the right "a grass couch" (for the outside), and the fence and the gate in the back, with the village in the background.
Ana Blandiana, one of Europe’s most important poets, is a symbol in the fight for democracy and freedom of speech, values again under threat. A history refracted through poetry, 'Between Silence and Sin' explores the power of the word as the last bastion of a nation’s collective soul in the face of oppression.
While working in the store Radu rapped to himself, preparing for that night's concert. Everything would have gone smoothly if it were not for the girl he saw in the store. He recognized her after 16 years. His first love.
Turica and her relatives wander from village to village, carrying handmade brooms and baskets, which they try to trade for food. The filmmaker goes beyond stereotypes, following an extremely poor Roma family on their survival winter trips, and for a whole year. They belong to the “Baiesi” group of Roma, who live in extreme poverty.
After hundreds of kilometers of walking, Greta, used to being on her own, is hosted by a family in Transylvania, where, through folk dance, she confronts her greatest fear: giving up control.
A movie about America !
A talented poor man sings in the city center to make money. A group of girls notice him and ask him to sing the song “roșu aprins”.Later, the poor man tells them about the connection he has with this song.
Katherine, who survived the Holocaust at age seven, visits her fatherland of Transylvania, Romania for the first time departing from Sweden with her family. Not only do both happy and frightful memories of her forgotten past come to life, but she must also face the depressing reality of Ceausescu's communist dictatorship and the romance developing between her husband and her sister. Parallel to her story and simultaneously, we get to know her childhood love and friend Sandor, who serves the dictator as a forester and whose story has a tragic ending. The film ends with the surprising and odd encounter of the two stories.
While a gruff inspector mentors a new hire, he flips their usual routine when he investigates a monk with a link to a fatal incident from years ago.
"My Socialist Home" is a documentary film exploring the significance of gender in the constitution of domestic space in the socialist and postsocialist state.
Black comedy on New Year's Eve. Fulfilling her list of New Year's resolutions creates more problems than solutions for Monica (Cosmina Olariu).
The populist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) organised a train for its supporters on the national holiday of Unification Day to visit celebrations culminating in the nationalist speeches of AUR’s President George Simion. The observational footage of passengers and participants in the grand convention brings to light the dangerous rise of the far right in Romania.
Set in a scientific environment, the plot of Șerban Marinescu's movie depicts the system of the piles and obligations. The editor of a specialized journal receives a phone call from an influential acquaintance in the scientific field, who asks him to publish the article of one of his protégés. The editor undertakes to print it on account of previous favors, even though the proposed article is more in the realm of speculation. At the same time, for lack of space, a scientifically valuable article with immediate applicability has to be postponed to the next issue of the journal.
During one winter night in a block of flats, a resident and a food-delivery guy make an unexpected bond.
An obliging and resourceful peasant made a woodworking machine out of scrap metal bought for two ducks, unaware of the dangers that would await him at every turn. Having become an unwitting swindler, he had to go with the proper documents through many instances, suffering from unscrupulous officials-bureaucrats...
A grand old house has seen generations of war and change, but as demolition looms, its tenants must face corrupt interests that govern this new world.
One of the first sociological and ethnographic documentary films worldwide, made by the team of sociologists and students of Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955) in the village of Drăguş, Făgăraş County, Romania.
1947 saw the Communists come to power in Romania. It was also the year leading up to the formation of Israel. The two fledgling entities, the Jewish State and the Socialist Republic of Romania, both wanted something: the former, people; the latter money and supplies. Radu Gabrea’s fascinating documentary looks at the various deals struck to facilitate this transfer, which effectively resulted in a European country selling its own citizens.
After Robert is murdered under mysterious circumstances, his friends are forced to face the truth and their past.
An old man and an old woman each have a girl. Influenced by old woaman, the old man compared to banish their home, and it goes in the world. Because of its virtues, she will gain from Holy Friday a box full of riches. Jealous, old woman's daughter and she is looking to get a gift from the Holy Friday, but because of its flaws will only get out of trouble.
Romanian animation story of a hobo and and a lady.
Three Roma children from a small Transylvanian town participate in a project to desegregate the local school, struggling against indifference, tradition and bigotry with humor, optimism and sass.
Two friends hatch a plan to pour LSD into the drinking water system under the People's House, but first they have to get rid of them.
The director’s observational camera enters the home of a family living in a village in the Danube Delta, where the birth of another girl arouses more tension stemming from the uneasy life of the extended family. In her short film, the director thematises a conflict between generations of three women reliant on each other, while Maria, a ten-year-old girl who has to take care of her younger sisters, comes into focus. In the timelessness of traditional rural relationships, shown in a slow pace of everyday life, Maria’s childlike innocence is exposed to harsh orders of her grandmother who requires respect and proper conduct.
A poem about the memory of objects in which the things that furnish a house are described.
The story of a young man and his fight to accept his three identities and the shame that goes with it: being an abandoned child, being Roma and gay. We follow Nicu throughout a day: on the streets of Bucharest while he goes to his job.
'Incurable' is what Romanian call them. They speak about 'the wrong side'. In this short film we follow a young man, fighting against this major taboo.
Musical comedy in 2 acts. The scenery represents "a country manor house", with the main character, Chirita Barzoi's house on the left, on the right "a grass couch" (for the outside), and the fence and the gate in the back, with the village in the background.
On Christmas Eve, a taxi driver takes home a man returning from working abroad.
Forestry workers isolated by winter on a mountaintop. Loves, longings, nostalgias and vital questions. From the first film, Cărmăzan reveals his inclination towards a certain magical surrealism that he later develops.
Marina (30) and Lucian (35 ) are in a happy long lasting relationship. One day, Lucian finds out that he has an illness that prevents him to touch other people anymore. Is love enough for Marina to stay in a relationship where she can't touch Lucian ever again?
While working in the store Radu rapped to himself, preparing for that night's concert. Everything would have gone smoothly if it were not for the girl he saw in the store. He recognized her after 16 years. His first love.
Constructed almost entirely from still photos masterfully synchronized with audio commentaries, this challenging doc tells the story of an adventurous one-man motorcycle expedition that spans over 21, 000 kilometers and 14 countries.
An impressive visual and sonorous experience through the meanders of the Danube, from its delta in the Black Sea to Serbia, in search of the gypsy people (or the Roma) and their music and culture.
Turica and her relatives wander from village to village, carrying handmade brooms and baskets, which they try to trade for food. The filmmaker goes beyond stereotypes, following an extremely poor Roma family on their survival winter trips, and for a whole year. They belong to the “Baiesi” group of Roma, who live in extreme poverty.
The film presents several young people from rural areas whom the new communist regime helped to integrate into the labor field of the socialist state, thus breaking with the ancestral tradition.