Discoveries from Romania World Cinema

This anonymous film shows a series of standard procedures involving treating various illnesses, for the future nurses.

A driving instructor is struggling with his feelings for his student.

Counterintelligence film from communist Romania.

A poetic and immersive voyage into the growing world of plants to rediscover love and explore how to re-entangle ourselves with nature's sentience and beauty.

Chronicle of a Visit Foretold is part of a series of three music videos made by Andrieș at FAV and talks sarcastically about the visit of King Michael I, which was blocked by president Iliescu.

A happening made by students from the Art Academy, inspired by one of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s sculpture-objects. The sculpture crosses the city of Bucharest and enters into dialogue with its inhabitants, against the backdrop of the 1990s.

On the one hand, the women’s aged faces, filmed among objects collected over a lifetime; on the other, the power of metaphorical images: volcanoes, cemeteries, construction sites. A meditation on the act of passing.

In a mixture of performance and body art, the artist uses her own face and body as a projector screen and painted background.

Florin Iepan's unsettling film documents the famous case of a student who, due to the lack of light in the corridors of the Cișmigiu Hotel - a student dormitory at the time- and a malfunction of the elevator, fell into the elevator shaft and died. The camera, which flies over the exterior and interiors of the Cișmigiu Hotel with extraordinary mobility, suggesting an extracorporeal perspective, captures the desolate poverty the residents of the dormitory used to live in during the first years after the Revolution.

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Pin-Pin is a circus artist penguin who goes around the world to find partners for a new show. After countless adventures, Pin-Pin returns home, to the circus, with his long-dreamed partners.

Skugos is the perfect town where all is sunny and nobody laughs. Mr.Q discovers laughter and sets off to look for the place where people enjoy laughing. Will he find out that laughter means happiness?

Student film made by Cristian Mungiu.

In a not so distant time females run the world and one day, they stumble upon a couple of artists.

Gogulic is an unemployed man chased by bad luck who has some adventures in the industrial periphery of Bucharest. Burlesque comedy

A visit to a Romanian disco where the rhythms of songs like Iko Iko and Invisible Sun interweave with. The edited footage from dance floors, concert halls, and stages is a multi-channel remix of the original recorded material with the filmmaker’s edited appropriated documentary footage.

This celebratory ode to the life of the potato explores the structures and shapes of the root vegetable with a monumental orchestral accompaniment and the help of a dynamic camera. Dazzling rays of sunlight penetrate the wicker incubator and illuminate in backlight the impressive tangle of roots and wrinkled skin of the agricultural crop.

Sibiu is a city at the heart of Transylvania. This film tells the (short) story of the place from the moment it was born 825 years ago up to our present days. The storyline winds among centuries spotlighting troubled and perilous moments when the very existence of the city was under threat, as well as through happier times of prosperity that show a thriving city commanding a dominant position as Transylvania's prominent and respected commercial, military, administrative and cultural centre.

A man is faced with the consequences of a short moment of inattention.

Experimental film on 16mm by George Sabau as part of Kinema Ikon.

Experimental film on 16mm by Alexandru Pecican as part of Kinema Ikon.

Drugs and crime somewhere in Romania.

After a car accident, two female friends need to face the challenges of readjusting to their new life. Their apartment becomes a neurotic space, where blindness and depression shake hands leading the protagonist to explore her own mind.

The monastery is the sacred home of God, but also home to the nuns and monks who have dedicated their lives to God. Romania’s monasteries are known worldwide for their magnificent beauty, but what do we know about the people that live there? How different is the life they lead? How different is the way they see the world? Behind the Monastery Walls presents a selection of intimate and inspiring interviews in which nuns and monks in Romanian monasteries lay bare their thoughts and beliefs.

A father raises his three children alone, while his wife is looking for work abroad.

After an encounter with an Asian missionary who preaches about God the Mother, Mihai reconsiders the nature of his mother’s late pregnancy.

Matei Vişniec is considered to be the most important contemporary Romanian playwright. His plays are translated into more than 20 languages and are played in over 50 countries. At the invitation of the writer, a TVR Iasi team, made up of journalist Andreea Ştiliuc and cameraman Relu Tabără, was this documentary filmed in July in France.

A village called Rosia Montana (Verespatak in Hungarian) is going to be eradicated because it is situated near mountains containing 300 tons of gold and silver. Hundred-year old houses, graveyards and churches will be destroyed, people living there for all of their lives will be moved away in order to allow a Canadian-Romanian company to install the largest gold extraction facility of Europe. The planned 800-hectare cyanide pool can be considered as of fearsome proportion, especially in the light of the cyanide catastrophe of the year 2000, which left the Tisza river completely and utterly devastated.

Two characters, a carriage and a horse. Where are they going? Towards what? Joy, torment and undefinable music. Vulnerable, yet not ready to surrender. They are the poets of time.

A derelict coal mine, a tramway depot, a small ready-made clothing workshop of a former fashion house, a dairy factory, and a world of women who lived their youth in communism.

A captivating portrait of sociology professor Nicolae Dumitru, who preaches a theory about true love but has difficulty putting it into practice in its own life