Her Birthday Present

Her Birthday Present 2017

1

She drives with him to buy booze for her birthday party. Also, he wants to buy her a present on their way, but he has no idea what that could be.

2017

Isverna, la meserie

Isverna, la meserie 2022

1

At the village pub, Philip meets a local celebrity, a nonchalant and extremely determined character. Gigi Meserie, a local musician, is undeterred by the pandemic. On the contrary, he manages to turn every opportunity into an opportunity. Gigi's goal is to convince the townspeople "to turn their faces towards us", the country folk.

2022

Where We Used to Sleep

Where We Used to Sleep 2024

9.00

Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the poisonous mud of a neighbouring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. Only a few people held on to their home. On the edge of the past, Valeria Praţa strives for her present - and is threatened by the future.

2024

Today I was Young and Pretty

Today I was Young and Pretty 2007

1

Most of the Gypsy population of Clejani, a village located some 50 km away from Bucharest, traditionally consists of musicians going back for many generations. The film shows how the musicians relate to daily life and the way their perception of reality influences their music. Firm belief in superstitions, the unavoidable blows of fate, communication with the dead, become the sources of inspiration and expression, of joy and sorrow. Alexandra Gulea’s unconventional documentary takes us on a musical journey to the origins of romanian gypsy music.

2007

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

Rhythms

Rhythms 1970

1

One of the very rare Romanian abstract films. Rhythms presents concrete objects that break down into all sorts of colours, shapes and shifting substances.

1970

WARF

WARF 1970

6.00

During World War II, several young people capture a German soldier on the roof of the building they defend and in which they most probably live. One of them ends up staying in the same room with the man for a longer time, keeping an eye on him at gunpoint. The relationship that develops between them, in spite of the language barrier, is suddenly halted by another gun(shot), one that comes from outside the room.

1970

Shriek into the Eardrum

Shriek into the Eardrum 1993

6.00

An unconventional chronicle of the literary and artistic Romanian avant-garde. The film recreates the atmosphere of those frenzied years (1916-1947) in the spirit of the avant-garde, through a bewildering collage of fundamental texts and images.

1993

Where I Am Now

Where I Am Now 2022

6.00

F. has been living in Bucharest for four years since fleeing Afghanistan with her family. The thoughtful 18-year-old films her life in the Romanian capital: her trips to the park, life at home with her brothers and sisters, and the conversations she has with her Romanian friends. When the Covid-19 pandemic approaches, bringing a lockdown, she has to spend a month indoors. She kills time with funny observations of life outdoors, filmed through the window.

2022

In Transit

In Transit 2008

1

A diary of a journey through space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present and childhood memories of the past. While traveling across Romania in the year of its EU accession, the narrative reflects on transition, the re-writing of history and the relation between images and memory.

2008

A Bitter Taste

A Bitter Taste 2016

6.00

An old man is in need of a surgery. He goes to the hospital pushed by his wife who has arranged everything. What it should be a simple medical intervention turns into a meeting with the destiny. Will the old man understand the meaning of this encounter?

2016

Cradle

Cradle 2021

1

People tend to hurt each other, leaving lasting wounds, and this is no different between families.

2021

Boxing with Myself

Boxing with Myself 2023

1

The film follows the life and work of Romanian visual artist ION GRIGORESCU, one of the pioneers of experimental art in Europe. The film discusses our evanescent existence, morality, and spirituality and interrogates the possible extent of the inglorious recollection of our own biography.

2023

House of Dolls

House of Dolls 2020

6.00

Film is an exploration of a special universe: the annual vacation of a bunch of 70-year-old ladies. Far from men and the madness of daily life, Cica, Nana and their friends isolate themselves voluntarily in a villa in the countryside. Together they blend joie de vivre and memories, melancholia and joyfulness, gossip and jokes. All that to keep up the illusion that time has not passed, that they are still the same beautiful and attractive girls they were 50 years ago.

2020

Tăbăcării

Tăbăcării 1963

6.00

An illustration of the evolution of the working conditions in the communist era, compared to the interwar period, using as a pretext a recently modernized factory in Jilava, presented in a mirror with the one described in a 1934 report by Geo Bogza.

1963

Coffee

Coffee 2021

1

While waiting for his blind date, Alex meets some old friends and makes a few new ones.

2021

Wrongside.

Wrongside. 2017

1.00

'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.

2017