A little bear cub grew up very lazy. Spring came, but the little bear did not want to wake up and went to chase after the cold Winter's sleigh. Soon Bear got to the palace of Santa Claus, where he had many funny adventures. Here the little boy understood a lot, learned a lot. Now Mishka will no longer be a layabout.
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.
A documentary about love, dance and music, freedom and prison.
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.
Estera is twenty now, so she must get married, her small-town family thinks. Estera obliges, but there is a trace of doubt on her face. Does she really want to marry? Does she even love this man? The film delves into Estera's doubts and worry as she's preparing for the 'best day of her life'.
Lache is unemployed. He falls asleep on the border of Lake Floreasca while peeping at a group of girls who are bathing in the lake. This image makes him dream about himself being inside a harem where the guards catch him and throw him in jail. Here he is found by Lili Dinamita, an artist who was brought to the harem after having been kidnapped by the white slavers. The two try to escape and they almost succeed in doing it, when Lache wakes up among the girls he was admiring when he fell asleep.
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 couple of thiefs from a battlefield have a strange encounter that will change them forever.
A man is faced with the consequences of a short moment of inattention.
Two Romanian boys roam around an abandoned building looking for metal to sell to a scrap dealer. The camera accompanies them as they explore spaces in the empty building, they discover the floors of the building are covered with a sea of thick old files. There doesn’t seem to be much left worth taking, as the building has been stripped to the bone already
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 TV team visits the camp of a Roma community in Bucharest that was recently evicted and is protesting. During the interview, the protestors start questioning the motivations of the reporting team and claim their right to tell their version of the story. The film is based on the story and experiences of the evicted people from Strada Vulturilor 50 in Bucharest.
Aribelle (Ari) is an amnesiac teenage girl stranded in a dangerous metropolis, Lost City, with only the clothes on her back and a heart-shaped locket. She meets Hugo, a very resourceful orphan kid who becomes her best friend. In a rather amusing situation Ari borrows the name Lara because he can't remember her real name. The action takes place in two cities, Capital City and Lost City, before the accident and after the accident in which Lara loses her memory and ends up in Lost City. The two, Lara and Hugo go through all sorts of adventures and end up at the city orphanage. Fausta, the director of the orphanage, is truly evil and has her own plans for Lara and Hugo.
Puiul is a short animated art Romanian movie without dialogue.
A funeral procession pushes across the florid stillness of a deserted Romanian village.
