The High schoolers

The High schoolers 1986

8.00

The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.

1986

The Last Day

The Last Day 2017

8.00

Adrian, a man from a provincial town, has decided to start a new life as a monk. The mayor, the policeman and the leader of the Christian Youth Association accompany their friend on his way to the monastery.

2017

Favorite

Favorite 1976

5.40

Alan York is a race horse jockey who sees his friend and chief rival jockey fall to his death during a steeplechase race. Alan knows it could not have been an accident. He pursues clues while meeting a lovely young lady and her fascinating uncle, until he finally discovers why his friend died... and why he is next to die.

1976

Unidentified

Unidentified 2021

5.95

An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.

2021

Uppercase Print

Uppercase Print 2020

7.40

In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.

2020

The Thirst

The Thirst 1960

6.40

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

1960

Outbound

Outbound 2010

6.38

Matilda takes a one-day release from jail to attend her mother’s funeral, with no intention of returning. The clock is ticking as Matilda tries one last time to get help from her family and is forced to confront her troubled past.

2010

The Cement Mixer

The Cement Mixer 2013

6.00

For the people living on a street in downtown Bucharest, the torture has started a few days previous, when a construction site was set up on their street.

2013

The Bet

The Bet 1985

6.30

Based on a 19th century tale, this self-referential fantasy, complete with musical and animated interludes plus a cast of fairytale characters, tells the story of a bet between an old man and a fairy over a bag with two gold coins.

1985

Ticăloșii

Ticăloșii 2007

6.50

All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.

2007

Arest

Arest 2019

7.33

In August 1983, architect Dinu Neagu together with his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, are on a beach of nudists near an industrial area. He is arrested and taken to Bucharest police office, where he is imprisoned in a cell together with Vali, a collaborator of the Security Service.

2019

The Punishment

The Punishment 1976

7.10

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

1976

The Castellans

The Castellans 1967

7.00

Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural monument, so an expert is summoned, but foolish beliefs betray them.

1967

The Cage

The Cage 2010

6.50

Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex.

2010

Promo

Promo 1998

1

A parody of consumer society, Promo constructs a domestic utopia in which everyday life is overwhelmed by the rhetorical absurdity of advertising language.

1998

The Headlight

The Headlight 2018

7.00

Radu Iovan and his high moral principles become the target of a ten thousand souls wager between God and Satan.

2018

Alazia

Alazia 2018

6.00

As a last resort, a girl diagnosed with cancer goes to an unconventional shaman.

2018

The Coders

The Coders 1991

1

Panoramic life of a Moldovan village in the second half of the twentieth century.

1991

Too Late

Too Late 1996

6.80

In post-communist Romania, young prosecutor Dumitru Costa is sent to investigate a miner's suspicious death in the Jiu Valley. As he delves deeper, he uncovers a network of corruption and negligence within the local mining community. Costa's pursuit of justice pits him against powerful interests, testing his resolve in a society struggling with the aftermath of transition.

1996

Kiddo

Kiddo 2012

6.00

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.

2012