Discoveries from Romania World Cinema

Hunger, beatings, and poor hygiene intermingle in a women's prison, where the characters combine sisterhood, eroticism, and political fight.

A Sci-FI animation movie about radioactive characters

When two people can no longer understand each other, love turns into conflict, and conflict into tragedy.

The Candidate managed to appear in the AFI Palace Mall Bucharest anniversary program. The PR loved the Candidate's virtuous modern dance fake videos, and that he performs for free, for exposure. Once there, the show was perpetually postponed, a priest was invited to bless the space, an expert that made a comparison between the malls architecture and nazist architecture… Slowly some of the mall staff got angry, although caught in the paradox of the show being officially invited by them. In the end the police came and the Candidate was kicked out. But it was a glorious postspectacle evening anyway. Before the Candidate, little dancers from the National Opera performed ballet variations. Acrobats and famous romanian bands were due to follow the Candidate, and last but not least there was a raffle "with prizes for everyone". (2010)

Short promotional clip of the legendary Athenée Palace, Leonard Suciu’s film plays out as a pop-infused showcase of the venue’s nocturnal temptations. Scantily clad dancers, sweaty singers, and all sorts of bacchic attractions—seasoned with a psychedelic soundtrack—recreate a Western-style atmosphere where spectators (both men and women) lounge in the cigarette-smoked chiaroscuro, while the performers lay themselves bare to indiscreet, hungry gazes in search of exotic thrills.

Two spies (Marcel and Remmy), employed by foreign trusts, come to Romania to sabotage Professor Turtureanu's invention.