Phoenix: The Story

Phoenix: The Story 2022

10.00

The film celebrates the 50th anniversary of the legendary Romanian rock band Phoenix. It features interviews with key members like Nicolae Covaci, the band's founder, and Mircea Baniciu, one of its iconic voices. The documentary includes rare archival footage and offers a comprehensive look at the band's history, its impact on Romanian culture, and its journey through various political and cultural landscapes.

2022

BUBBLE BATH

BUBBLE BATH 2024

1

Ali's 5th birthday party transforms into a shocking and chaotic ritual improvised by his grandparents. Moments of humor, intimacy, and turmoil, a poignant examination of identity, tradition, and the intricate dynamics within modern families.

2024

An Almost Perfect Family

An Almost Perfect Family 2024

1

After 30 years of marriage, my parents told me they were separating. I fell in love and started my own family during this painful process. The film explores the different shapes that love can take between parents and children and children who become parents.

2024

Păltinișul și Noica

Păltinișul și Noica 1970

1

Constantin Noica spent the last years of his life "1400 meters above humanity", as he liked to say - in Păltiniș. Far from the communist gray, but still kept under observation by the Securitate, the philosopher found in this place the joy of talking about wisdom. In the modest room on the 1st floor of Villa 12, what we know as the "Păltiniș School" was born.

1970

Pelicule de familie

Pelicule de familie 2024

1

A random post on Facebook: "A few rolls of film have been found abandoned for decades somewhere in an old attic!" Digitizing the film brings to light family footage: ordinary home scenes, birthdays, holidays, visits, outings. The search for those who appear in the footage is thrilling, and the result is an immersion in time, with family stories and dramas painted in the visual aesthetic of 8mm film.

2024

Un mal rebel

Un mal rebel 1970

1

The documentary follows Doru Chirodea, the most unknown poet from Timisoara, whose activity begins in the United States, in the second half of the ‘80s, where he is known in some underground, non-academic circles, in the niche world of zines and independent literary magazines. Back in his hometown, he makes periodic book releases, published in a DIY fashion, in obscure and ephemeral bars, but with a core for a certain local bohemia, on the way to extinction. The film calmly reflects on this end of a lifestyle that already belongs to another era.

1970

The Power of Probability

The Power of Probability 2023

10.00

In the capital of the Republic of Moldova, children begin to disappear. Police officer Vlad, helped by his friend from the secret services, decides to find the missing children by all means, but discovers a secret that could lead to a coup d'état.

2023

3 Dialogues About the Future

3 Dialogues About the Future 2022

1

A short documentary in which three pairs of robots take us through their learning process, revealing the limitations of their algorithmic visions.

2022

Toni and Friends

Toni and Friends 2020

5.80

Rebeca, Iulia and Florin, a film crew with not much experience, decide to shoot a documentary about the mysterious Toni Oniga. They have heard about him from many friends and are very interested in meeting him. But he turns out to be very hard to find. The filmmakers get the impression that people don’t want to say where Toni Oniga is. They have only good things to say about him, that he was like salvation to them, but never go into any details. Things get more and more confusing. Is it possible that Tony Oniga is an urban legend and never really existed?

2020

The Sun and its Double

The Sun and its Double 2014

1

Up in the sky, the sun, and another sun, the other’s double. A simple superimposition invokes with all its strength the imaginary and poetics of anticipation, raising, at the same time, the problem of the double. What does the supreme singular represent for our culture of mass reproduction?

2014

10, Autumn Street

10, Autumn Street 2022

6.00

A man in his 40s comes home one night, and finds an unknown woman in his apartment.

2022

Fructul interzis

Fructul interzis 1970

6.00

What if as a result of the Original Sin, God didn't cast out both Adam and Eve from Paradise? What if the actual punishment were more sinister than that? If you had to wait an entire life just to see your lover, could you endure it?

1970