Discoveries from Romania World Cinema

In an infected apocalyptic world, a survivor tries to find a reason to live.

A rural experiment filmed with an 8mm camera captures the Transylvanian landscape around the town of Beius. Blurred lines, warm colors, depth of space, and soothing scenes: the impression of an oil painting is disturbed by the agitated camera movements, vertical swoops, image inversions, and overlaying of shots.

The pressure of telling your parents that they created a monster.

Marilena a 40 yo Woman lives her life at maximum. She works in a furniture factory where she is sexually harassed by his boss. At home she has a new born child with the husband of her bet friend. Her lover is in Canada and he have no idea about the existence of the child. When he returns from Canada life of Marilena becomes a nightmare.

Banned for 20 years during the communist regime in Romania, this short film depicts New York City through the eyes of a director and a writer.

1957, communist Romania. Sasa talks about his 45 year long relationship with Petre, in a time when homosexuality was criminalized.

A puppet movie about a funny story that happened in the apartment of a chatty landlady, who was so engrossed in a phone conversation that she forgot that her little, naughty son was left in the next room.

Escaping from a totalitarian society, in which music is banned, is rendered impossible, and the violent death of the artists, imposed by the supreme ruler, is carried out with no hesitation by his obedient servants.

An eclectic film, in which suspense and cynicism sometimes meet the grotesque, "Back and forth" reminds, in many ways, the future masterpiece, "Cruise" (1981), directed by Mircea Daneliuc. Placed on the water's edge, where several characters sit with their bellies in the sun and when they talk about what they want and what they don't want, when they keep quiet, "Back and forth" is the graduation film of one of the legendary filmmakers of national cinema.

Documentary about the Legionary movement

Documentary film about a peasant wedding held on the streets of Arad followed by a theater show in which the bride and groom participate. The film was made on December 14, 1913 in Avram Iancu Square in Arad, as well as at the City Hall and the City Theater.

A peculiar math teacher from Transilvania is becoming a local Don Quijote when he quits the conventional educational system and opens a private lectures office in his own two-room apartment. Throughout a school year we follow his struggle and persistence in bringing back the passion of learning and change for better the lives of his pupils.

The story of the old Russians began in the XVI century, when the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, supported by the Czar, imposed religious reforms in Russia. Those who have refused to obey were brutally persecuted and forced to seek refuge in Siberia or in faraway places. Many hidden in Europe, and some of them settled down in China, Japan, America and Australia. The Russian Old Believers Community that settled down in Romania is one of the most numerous. The film explores the extraordinary power of this community to preserve their language, customs and religion, finding in their faith in God the source of strength to resist. This film tries to render the patriarchal air of the medieval Russia, from which these people came.

A couple of thiefs from a battlefield have a strange encounter that will change them forever.

Ionaș lives in an isolated village in Maramureș, from where the road leads only into the forest. Every year, from July until the beginning of October, Ionaș spends his nights guarding, on his own, his cornfield of wild boars that threatens to eat his agony.

An experimental short done by Valentin Constantin in 1981, with Kinema Ikon.

On the last day of 2016, two evil scientists plot the end of the world by abducting a strange girl and turning her into a monster.

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

An intimate and vital account of love and friendship within a group of youngsters. They live in a complex, contradictory, and isolated world – the self-proclaimed state of Transnistra, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle. Tanya plans to move abroad, however future seems to offer frighteningly limited possibilities for her lovestruck friends.

Professor Ioan-Matei Agapi, an 80-year-old photographer and cameraman from Iași, Romania, owns a unique collection of 16mm films and photographs documenting almost fifty years of the city’s history. His daughter, also a filmmaker, has decided to make a film about her father's archives. In the unconventional surroundings of his old apartment, he reminisces about the past until one day, Ioan is informed that he must leave or be evicted from the apartment where he has spent the past 40 years. Ioan’s years of work suddenly transform into a huge burden, and the film unexpectedly changes into drama in which conflicts with city officials reveal old and hidden conflicts within the family.

A film directed by Ion Grigorescu.

A city-vérité conceptual movie shot in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. With an outside-the-box cinematic perspective, a full-encompassing soundtrack, a sequential narrative approach and no dialogues, the film slices through the urban soul and the contemporary spirit of a city formerly known as "Little Paris".

Ștefan's 18th birthday presents are: a driving lesson, a bottle of vodka and an open-minded discussion about women, but an unexpected surprise turns around the anniversary.

Ani and Sanda are two girls from Maramuresh who grew up with their grandparents. Their parents are working in Spain, like so many other Romanians. When they left, their common project looked promising: with the money earned in Spain they shall build a house in which the whole family will be happy. After more than 10 years, things haven’t turned out as planned, and the big house is far from being finished. Laura Căpățână-Juller accompanied Ani and Sanda for three years, following with a tender and talented eye the struggles of these two girls turned into teenagers while their parents were away.

In 1982, the newly elected President of France, François Mitterrand, clashes with the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu in a spy story worthy of a detective novel, a conflict during the Cold War and a hidden struggle in which the secret services of both countries, the French DST and the Romanian Securitate, were involved. In 1982, Ceaucescu orders one of his agents to assassinate two Romanian dissidents living in Paris, the writers Virgil Tanase and Paul Goma, French citizens. But instead of carrying out this order, the Securitate agent Matei Haiducu, alias Matthieu Forestier, went directly to report him to the DST.

The young Romanian woman Ioana tries to find her missing friend Tomescu in Berlin.

A comedic work safety short film

An overview on modern bovine farming and exploiting technology in Socialist Romania.

An overview on industrial meat processing in Socialist Romania.

An overview of industrial pig farming in Socialist Romania.

An overview of industrial sheep farming in Socialist Romania.

An overview of industrial chicken farming in Socialist Romania.

An overview of the daily work of an industrial farm

An overview of industrial bovine insemination in Socialist Romania.

An educational overview of the processes of a milk factory in Socialist Romania.

A young drunkard facing divorce climbs up a post to threaten suicide and elicits unexpected reactions from other villagers.

A film by Ion Grigorescu.

A film by Ion Grigorescu.

Three friends reunite after a long time to play Europolis, their favorite game. But it’s precisely this game that will put their friendship to the test.

A tender, darkly humorous meditation on death, seen through the expressive inhabitants of a rural community.

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

An old man with a great passion for the universe wants to go to the planetarium to witness a rare planet alignment. In the end he takes part in a rather breathtaking experience.

A young girl is haunted by whispers of past memories with Josh, who quietly walks away from her life, leaving her feeling empty.

A young, underestimated team unexpectedly transforms into an unstoppable force, staying undefeated for months and fighting for promotion until the final whistle.

A man wakes up and begins his morning routine while the radio plays the day’s news.

In order to cure his patients, a doctor makes a show using mad people, presented to other mad people. From innocent games, the show gradually leads to unsetting occurences.

MODERN PRIMITIVE, the only body suspension team from Romania, broke up. It's members, Dragoș, George and Ovidiu reorganized themselves continuing to do body suspensions, each one in their own style.

Labor protection film warning against the usage of improper footwear, commissioned by the Ministry of Light Industries, the Department of Cotton Industries.