Populara De Romania

Shot in a cinéma verité style, a group of students make a film in Botosani penitentiary. They start to follow Gheorghita, a worker from the kitchen. He is working hard to gain the trust of the guards and to blend in with his fellow inmates. As the students get closer to him, they realise how the environment ends up shaping the identity of the individual.

A movie about chickens and kids. The film was made in 1985, but screened only in 1990 for reasons that even Communist censors found hard to explain. A chicken farm that was very modern for its time included a kindergarten reserved for the employees’ children. The film uses the parallel between raising chicken and human babies as the starting point for a meditation on human nature.

The film tells the story of Nicoleta Giurcanu, who was arrested at only 14 years old, along with her father and brother, while protesting for freedom and democracy during the 1989 revolution. Later, Nicoleta was taken to the police station, then in the most feared prison in Romania and even in a torture chamber. 33 years later, Nicoleta is a Civic Education teacher, fights for the truth and teaches young people what true freedom is.

In search of engineer Dragomirescu, is a documentary film directed by Dragoș Zamosteanu, which brings to the attention of the public the tragic destiny of Gheorghe Dragomirescu, an exceptional engineer, the father of six children, denounced for singing, on January 1, 1959, at the anniversary to a friend, "Deșteaptă-te, române!" and "Vântuleț de primăvară"

"Remember Iuliu Maniu-1986" is a documentary film produced by the "Iuliu Maniu" Memorial House in Bădăcin. The film talks about the courage of a group of young people to commemorate Iuliu Maniu, 33 years after his death.

After a long life of hard work, 94-year-old Maria outsmarts a priest in her Romanian village.

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

This video essay deepens loneliness, poverty and depression by developing the tragic story of a boy from the Jiu Valley who commits suicide because of his mother’s absence.

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.

A shocking testimony of the times when Romania was a giant prison fenced with barbed wire and guarded by indoctrinated border guards ready to machine-gun the dream of freedom of any reckless person who would dare to escape the absurdity of communist dictatorship. Some managed to escape. Others ended up shot near the border or drowned in the Danube. Some survived the border crossing attempts, but were left broken, traumatized and mutilated for life. This is their true story.

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.

While working in the store Radu rapped to himself, preparing for that night's concert. Everything would have gone smoothly if it were not for the girl he saw in the store. He recognized her after 16 years. His first love.

Although Romania is an European modern country, its population still has a traditional mentality, very different from western world, and Catalin and Cristi are a gay couple struggling to live in a rough reality.