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Two versions – an optimistic and a pessimistic one – of a sonnet by Ion Luca Caragiale turn into video landscapes. Which one do you prefer?

A happening made by students from the Art Academy, inspired by one of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s sculpture-objects. The sculpture crosses the city of Bucharest and enters into dialogue with its inhabitants, against the backdrop of the 1990s.

The hypnotic, semi-fictional diary of a young woman’s coming of age in a world which gives her no privacy.

On the one hand, the women’s aged faces, filmed among objects collected over a lifetime; on the other, the power of metaphorical images: volcanoes, cemeteries, construction sites. A meditation on the act of passing.

In an apartment building in the centre of Bucharest various personal histories coexist. The neighbours know everything about each other. In his or her own way, each of them is captive within the walls that face the inner courtyard.

Misha, a 17-year-old boy, spent the last three years of his life in Goian, the only penitentiary for minors from Moldova. On the last day of his conviction, he gathers some of the things he can take „home”. His plans for life after-prison look promising. Misha intends to find a job, to start a family and to recover what he missed from his relationship with his parents and two younger brothers.

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.

Two young guys are drinking alcohol, smoking weed and making prank calls. Little they know that their fun night is about to take a whole different turn when they get an unexpected visit from two complete strangers.

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"

In a not so distant time females run the world and one day, they stumble upon a couple of artists.

Alin is a truck driver and he is having his last trip to Italy for the year, before he can return home for Christmas to his wife and son.

In 1917 a village which lies directly on the front line at Marasesti is evacuated. One of the few who decide to stay is an old man together with his 12 year old granddaughter named Mariuca. The girl befriends a Romanian radio operator who had set up an artillery observation post in their yard.

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.

A puppet movie about a funny story that happened in the apartment of a chatty landlady, who was so engrossed in a phone conversation that she forgot that her little, naughty son was left in the next room.

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.