Populare Da Romania

"Life is a Bitch" is a sci-fi video-novel which finds its set in a possible future where the Left has the opportunity to build its project on Europa, moon of planet Jupiter. The short film follows the struggle of a left-minded couple which couldn’t afford the flight to the “Socialist Moon”.

The first ever presidential debate in Romania

The film explores sites and practices of memory in post-socialist Bucharest, twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. It was shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest public parks in Bucharest. This central, urban space attracts people from all walks of life. It is a place for social interaction, solitary reflection, reverie, and memory. Interweaving recollections of the past with present-day scenes from the park, the film presents a montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people.

A split-screen animated film that explores the complex nature of memory in contemporary post-communist Romania. Using a collection of everyday, household objects as windows into the past, it features 16mm stop-motion animations of these artifacts, projected alongside selections of interviews from the ethnographic research with the objects’ owners.

"Aflați despre mine..." stands as a quintessential social documentary from the perspective of 1980s filmmakers, delving into the effects of labor migration from agriculture to urban industry. Filmed in bachelor accommodations, it captures the intimate confessions of residents, offering faces and voices to the societal shifts in socialist times. The documentary, set against a backdrop of dormitory life, features a nuanced soundtrack blending informal interviews with the monotony of daily routines. Panning from window to window, the camera reveals the aspirations of temporary dwellers dreaming of a future beyond provisional living and aiming to settle into homes of their own.

30-year old man is looking for a mysterious snake.

Madame S. is about to give her daughter in marriage to Dr. Gluand, a rich old doctor. What she does not know is that Madelene is in love with the doctor's protégé, Marcel. The two begin a clandestine affair, but the doctor discovers their secret and, seeking revenge, decides to unite the two lovers... body and soul.

Rebeca, Iulia and Florin, a film crew with not much experience, decide to shoot a documentary about the mysterious Toni Oniga. They have heard about him from many friends and are very interested in meeting him. But he turns out to be very hard to find. The filmmakers get the impression that people don’t want to say where Toni Oniga is. They have only good things to say about him, that he was like salvation to them, but never go into any details. Things get more and more confusing. Is it possible that Tony Oniga is an urban legend and never really existed?

A handful of young documentary filmmakers have to make a report on a lathe machine enterprise. Only that Documentary About… is also a playful, almost cheeky film about its own making.

Time passes by quickly for a young, small family: soon it will no longer be that small, the children grow up, the parents get older, and this reality in constant motion, erased and diffused, sometimes stops itself in front of the camera.

Up in the sky, the sun, and another sun, the other’s double. A simple superimposition invokes with all its strength the imaginary and poetics of anticipation, raising, at the same time, the problem of the double. What does the supreme singular represent for our culture of mass reproduction?

Bogdan Mihailescu creates a short animation about the famous Gopo`s little man.

The life of Mara, a teenage girl from rural Romania in the 1950s, is turned upside down after her parents arrange a marriage for her with a wealthy young man from a neighboring village. Mara finds herself in a situation with no escape, and her romantic feelings for her friend, Ioana, upset her completely.

Two best friends get through the most challenging moment of their friendship and it all starts when they find each other’s personal diaries.

Following a triggering experience, Eden, the titular character, retreats into her inner world. There she goes through a process of self-discovery, starting from a sense of discomfort with her queer, non-conformist side, and finally reaching self-acceptance and a renewed courage to face the outside world.

The film is part of a series of scientific venatorial touristic films produced in 1930 și describes the process of extracting and transforming gold in the Apuseni Mountains.

In the 90's and early 2000's Romanian mainstream press began reporting on homosexuality and activism in a very flashy and sensationalistic manner. Notes on Hiding focuses on what the media didn't report on.