Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then disappears. When he is found, the little boy's footage is misinterpreted by the media.
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes - throughout with best intentions.
Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police, arrives…
Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.
It's the bachelorette party on the night before Raluca's wedding. She is looking forward to tomorrow, but as the hours pass, 'tomorrow' seems further away and 'yesterday' seems to catch up from behind. Raluca+1 is a funny mockumentary about the world's most famous happy ending: '...and they lived happily ever after'.
On a rainy day, two guys arrive in a small village with film and a projector in their car. No one from the village comes to meet them. What happened? Who are they? The not knowing relays no small amount of interest at times through tension as in a horror movie, and at times through compassionate laughter.
"Love Sorry" is a comedic romance where a small-town girl races her friends to meet a visiting celebrity. Laughter, friendship, and unexpected moments ensue in this charming tale of pursuing dreams and connections.
In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.
Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses.
Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian - are tripling away their... happiness, into vodka, at "The Happy Immigrant", a joint kept by a Turk. The fauna of this venue is made up out of the Babel Tower's survivors: immigrants who had chosen Romania, as a country where everything is possible. The predictions included... A police raid chases away the pub's barflies. The three professional boozers stop from running just in front of a fortune teller expert in a niche field: death prediction. The rest is entertainment! Although we are all indebted to one death, some refuse to pay this debt. They don't want to die when it was written for them. Or just predicted...
Based on actual events which happened at the Radio Romania station in Bod-Brasov, during the beginning of the revolution for social liberation and for the country's national liberation, an anti-fascist and anti-imperialist revolution, on August 23, 1944. After King Michael I ousts the Nazi-allied dictator Ion Antonescu, Nazi troops struggle to recapture the Radio Romania station, their former headquarters in an attempt to regroup their forces, but are opposed by a determined band of anti-fascist fighters.
Mofturi 1900 is a 1964 Romanian comedic film directed by Jean Georgescu and based on Ion Luca Caragiale's many Moments and Sketches. The sketches used are "Diplomatie" ("Diplomacy"), "Amicii" ("Pals"), "O lacuna" ("A gap"), "Bubico", "C.F.R." (abbreviation of "Romanian Railways") and "Din statiune" ("From resort"). The film stars Grigore Vasiliu Birlic, Iurie Darie and Ion Dichiseanu; and features Ioana Bulcă, Alexandru Giugaru, Mircea Crisan, Geo Barton and others. Set at the beginning of the 20th century, the story revolves around two Mitică characters sitting at a cafe telling stories to each other.
"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
After working this weekend at a factory, three friends put money together to go on an unforgettable escape to Bucharest.
Sunday afternoon. 42 Celsius degrees. Nothing to eat. No shops. A man in his 50s tries to survive.
An aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water a new world reveals. The phone, on a chair, connects her with her son and keeps her linked to the world.
Camil wakes up one night without a penis. The nightmare continues when his partner also disappears after meeting a former lover. Camil sets out to find her and - wearing female clothes - joins a secret community dedicated to fertility, somewhere near a lake. And what he finds there will prove even more disturbing than his recent misadventures...
The Ticket is a fresh take on the talent show genre that doesn't just judge raw ability, but values how contestants bring their talent to life on stage: through emotion, authenticity, creativity, and scenic impact.
Jurnalul TVR is the main news program of the TVR, broadcast daily on TVR1, TVRi at 07:00, 14:00, 17:00, 19:00 and 22:45, and on TVR2. It broadcasts at different hours on TVR1 and TVR2, if the schedule of some sporting event that the two channels broadcast interfere with the usual TV schedule.
Survivor Romania
A documentary series of Bucharest City, or as some say, the center of the world.
The comedy begins when the guests think they are coming for a relaxed discussion, but end up in the middle of a memorable roast! A show where the jokes are sincere, the lines are sharp, and laughter is guaranteed. Each edition brings a special guest and a healthy portion of humor, without the curtain.
Ora de ştiri is the main news show broadcast daily on TVR2 starting at 10pm. It is presented by Lucian Pirvoiu and Livia Dila.
Next Top Model is a reality documentary and the Romanian version of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model. It places contestants against each other in a variety of tests in order to determine who will win title of Romania's Next Top Model along with a lucrative 4 year-long modelling contract with MRA Models worth 50,000 Euros. The competition is hosted by romanian fashion designer Cătălin Botezatu making him the fifth male host of the international Top Model franchise after Fyodor Bondarchuk, Alexander Tsekalo, Jay Manuel and Nathan Lee. The panel is completed by photographer Gabriel Hennessey, Make-Up Artist Mirela Vascan, Hair Stylist Laurent Tourette and model agent Livio Ionescu.
