Herrikoia Noiztik Romania

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.

The pressure of telling your parents that they created a monster.

Doru is a Romanian soldier on his first mission to Afghanistan. Laila is an Afghan girl. They've met for a brief second and from that moment their destinies became intertwined. This film, finding itself on the border between documentary and fiction, tells the stories of a soldier marked by the brutality of war and that of a young girl who had been in the wrong place, in the wrong time. The director combines archival footage from the war in Afghanistan with beautifully shot personal images, in a film about the cruelty of war, from the perspective of both the invaders and of the civilians trapped within.

“I’ve been a robber, a thief, a thug. I blew my veins out, I drank, I drank and I fucked chicks. I never stole from the poor. I’m HIV-positive since 16 years. I’m repenting over time. I cleaned myself from my sins. I committed offenses but I never took a human life away. Not yet. Haven’t got an abortion either. These are mortal sins - and as for the others, I paid already. I’ve been the worst of bitches but in this life already I’ve seen the light. My name is Stela, I’m 42 years old and I spent 10 of them in jail. Chaos is my life.”

The mountain running documentary 10.000 Meters Up (La Cota 10.000) brings together two of the most beautiful things that we know: Romania and the mountains. Even though in real life the 10.000 meters mountain altitude mark is a utopia, the documentary follows an expedition among the Carpathians, running through Retezat, Fagaras, Bucegi, Ciucas and Ceahlau mountains, summing up 10.000 altitude gain in less than one week. This adventure became a story of trail running and carries the audience in fairy tales landscapes, revealing how high can we reach if we dare to dream.

Director Roxana Baloiu's personal reflection on the loss of her grand-mother's mind to Alzheimer's. A deeply personal tale of longing, loss and regret. A love letter from a grand-daughter to a grand-mother.

The memory of a tragedy of passion – a double murder that took place in a shepherd’s village 50 years ago – is preserved in the form of a ballad. The villagers recall the events and the musicians talk about the birth of this song that lacks the victim’s point of view, because the assassin is the one who commissioned them to compose this ballad.

Although Romania is a European modern cosmopolitan country, its population kept a narrow minded traditional mentality. Catalin and Cristi are a gay couple struggling to live in this rough reality.

Awaiting her husband’s visit from abroad, a woman is having a nervous breakdown as her mother finds out she hasn’t yet made up her mind about the divorce.

After a staged senators' son death the drug operation behind them begins to unravel.

One stressful morning, like every other morning, Cristina suddenly stops in the doorway. She is unable to take the step that would lead her out of the house.

'Incurable' is what Romanian call them. They speak about 'the wrong side'. In this short film we follow a young man, fighting against this major taboo.

Ioan Colţea, who is turning 91, lives in a quiet village in the mountains. Surrounded by his extended family, always serene and detached, he is now looking at his kids, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, with kindness, warmth and resignation in his eyes. The family gets together for an entire week not only to celebrate grandpa, but also to agree on building him a new grave and cross, all under Ioan Colţea’s strict observation.

Romanian fairy tales usually start with the sentence: “Once upon a time something happened, if it hadn’t happened it couldn’t be told.” In this fairy tale, a stranger visits the remote mountain village of Slon.

An experimental short done by Valentin Constantin in 1981, with Kinema Ikon.

Sorin is very passionate about dinosaurs. At only 8 years old, an unknown object, found in his parents' bedroom, doesn't arouse his questions, but only his desire to play. Other questions arise when the teacher calls the parents to the school.

An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that represents his livelihood, but will have to embark on a bureaucratic adventure to achieve it.