Discoveries from Romania World Cinema

Animated film about the dangers of drunk driving.

Animated labor protection film commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Social Provisions, the Institute of Hygiene and Labor Protection.

In a marriage agency, a young woman watches VHS tapes of men from Western countries looking for a wife and then proceeds to film a tape that represents her. The owner, and by the way the only employee of the makeshift agency, who boasts of many successful intermediations (portraits of married women in Western metropolises wallpaper the agency's walls), selects the settings and teaches the young woman how to pose: from behind a desk, as a secretary, with the phone to her ear, with the image of American skyscrapers in the background, against the backdrop of a beach with palm trees, in a mini dress in a Mediterranean setting, with a glass of red wine in her hand, etc. But at a certain point the young woman rejects the clichés and asks the owner-cameraman to capture her in an authentic pose.

During their internship at an archaeological site, two students from the Faculty of History find ancient coins that support the nationalist thesis on the continuity of the Romanian people throughout the centuries in Romania. One of them is determined to present the discovery at an important international historical conference organized in Adamclisi, but his lazier colleagues look at him with envy.

First romanian animation. Now lost

The little man learns that the Earth is in mortal danger due to pollution.

Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. In a mission to recover the Delta space station, Dan is caught by a defective robot and mistaken for some radioactive energy source.

Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. Dan, Yashiro and Anuta board an alien ship and are taken prisoner by Borak, a giant armored conquistador. The three fail to understand him and, suspecting that Borak wants to obtain their ship's fuel to power their power generators, attack and annihilate him. A small, green alien then emerges from the giant armor and speaks to them in a variant of Esperanto.

A barren space. Sand and stone. Dried trees. Everything seems frozen. Strange, right in this deserted place, seemingly belonging to no one... AN OBELISK. The stone blocks animate the space? They almost speak. The dried trees come to life. We enter a fantastic zone where we discover primal creatures fiercely fighting for food. Everything that can be found becomes food. The saving food.

An animation about the childhood of Stephen the Great.

Two mysterious men are captured in various carefully stylized locations, accompanied by haunting music.

Beyond the river lies a world where suffering, poverty, and violence define everyday life. The film doesn’t explain or judge - it listens. With no external narration, the community tells its own story - with pain, with humor, with dignity. An unforgiving mirror held up to a society that keeps what it doesn’t want to see at arm’s length.

A solitary clockmaker notices two of his clients have vanished. As strange patterns emerge in their timepieces, he records a video for the police—before time runs out for him too.

The Resocializing Center at the Neuropsychiatry Hospital 'Alexandru Obregia' is a more or less Utopian attempt to reinstate the mentally ill back into the 'system', into society. Beyond the succes or the failure of this attempt, the emotional memory keeps the inner poetry of some personal worlds - as a way to survive in a chaotic and absurd reality - and, in the end, the relativity of the 'normality' concept.

Music video for the band Șuie Paparude

Sganarelle finds himself in a situation as difficult as it is ridiculous: he is an aging man pursuing a very beautiful yet libertine young lady, with the intention of marrying her. Sganarelle is wealthy, whereas she, Dorimena, comes from a poor family. How hard it is for our bachelor to part with his comfortable and well-off freedom! How afraid is he to break his cycle of sadness and take a step to happiness?

In a quiet Bucharest suburb, Edith and Stan lead an unremarkable life – until Spiridon, the building handyman, stirs their routine with a startling revelation: their new neighbor, Anilov, breeds pigeons that are not what they seem. As Edith, a fervent believer in conspiracy theories, becomes increasingly obsessed, her imagination spirals out of control, blurring the lines between reality and paranoia. Meanwhile, Stan, a man of reason, struggles to anchor her in logic, navigating the growing conflict between belief and skepticism.