In Clejani, a village in Wallachia (south of Bucharest), two or three elderly Roma musicians are the last custodians of traditional village music. With them will disappear ballads and ancestral stories: tales of the haidouks, the outlaw-heroes of medieval Romania, initiation stories, and love songs.
Two friends wake up one morning to find themselves in a completely new situation.
”Autoportret: fragmente din mine” is a poetic and introspective short film that blurs the line between visual diary and experimental cinema. Built around an original poem, the film follows no traditional narrative, instead weaving together fragments of light, emotion, and thought to reflect the process of self-discovery. Through raw visuals and mixed media elements it captures a moment of becoming, a state of searching without resolution. Rather than offering answers, it invites viewers into the quiet, unfinished space of personal truth.
Based on the novel "The Artist" by Francisca Munteanu. Romania in the 30s. A young talented artist Mihai Strihan, a student at the Academy of Painting, sees how fascism is poisoning the social life of the country. But Mihai does not want to get involved in politics and decides to engage only in painting. However, under the influence of friends fighting for the freedom of their homeland, Mihai realizes that he was wrong and becomes involved in a fierce political struggle against fascism.
While helping another woman search for her birth mother, a filmmaker reopens her own family story. In searching for her missing sisters, she unearths a legacy of abuse and exploitation, and begins to ask: can the creative power of self-authorship help her rewrite the scripts she has inherited?
Chivu's lonely, isolated life is about to be changed when a distant acquaintance arrives at his door with a strange business proposal.
In 1983, somewhere in the suburbs of Paris Daniel Spoerri buried the remains of a feast attended by 80 people. The journey of the film begins in 2016, with their rediscovery by archaeologists. The film then follows the artist's memories to the places where he spent his childhood. It was a feast akin to an attempt to defeat death.
A journalist in a Bucharest publication, is the accidental witness of the street arrest of a communist. It intervenes in the defense of the young man, who manages to escape, and is arrested. He is obliged to look for the missing woman.
A documentary about a young farmer’s experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrials.
Romania. Seven years in the life of a family of believers, struck by the illness of a little girl suffering from spina bifida pass before the camera, with a polluted town scarred by unemployment serving as a background.
The reenactment of a burglary turned crime.
Documentary on the Romanian rock band Phoenix.
A film constructed on a text that seems to be a theatrical performance rather than the transcript of a trial. The camera traces facades of communist housing blocks, depressingly unchanged over the years, as the transcript from the trial of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, is read without pause or emotion. The intensity of the film is created by the tension between the dizzying and unceasing movement of the camera and the continuous and expressionless reading of the trial script, recording a very dark episode of modern history. — Anthology Film Archives
To David, no one matters more than his daughter, Maya. With summer break just around the corner, and Anca, his ex-wife out of town, David hopes to win Maya over, by building her a tree house.
A boy is to become a sheep herder far out in the Rumanian countryside. But when one of the sheep disappear, his whole existence and life is in danger.
