A mysterious man, a seductive woman—and a game that quickly gets out of hand. In Bogdan Ilieșius's sophisticated short film, the perspective shifts in every scene: Who is seducing whom, who is playing with whom—and where is the line between seduction and violence?
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.
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 fantastic short documentary that explores an event that is staged in a cave in one of the oldest forests in Romania. The premise of the film - that people are bored and need something to do or perform is beside the point - there are people in Romania who will move an entire orchestra into a cave in the forest and thousands of people will arrive to watch a classical performance there. Breathtaking and fun at the same time.
How do we carry on living, afterwards. When we've grown up under a dictatorship, when we shaped our lives under a dictatorship. When it's part of us. Second part of a trilogy about Romania after Stella (2007).
Few know what happened, in fact, on August 23, 1944, and who were the main actors of change. Words like "coup", "war" and "communists" are used often in the same sentence, without knowing anything about the courage that a king nor 23 had when it was across Hitler's plan.
In Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.
Chivu's lonely, isolated life is about to be changed when a distant acquaintance arrives at his door with a strange business proposal.
Videoclip for a song sung by Romanian singer Loredana.
Artim's parents made a strange decision, turning their own son into a girl. Now the boy has two parallel identities: one day he is a boy, the other day he is a girl...
Theory and practice meet with the sound of reality.
This is a film about what the car traffic turns us into. For 5 months the director in the passenger seat accompanies five ordinary people (A half paralyzed man who not only drives a car, but he also helps other people to avail themselves of cars; Peruvian woman, who was been raised in a city with an equally crazed traffic; a father who has recently lost his daughter in a traffic accident; a policeman who was beaten up by the militia before December 1989) on their every day journeys around the capital.
A naked man keeps himself busy throughout an infinite space.
Titi pushes the concept of unconditional love to its extremes with prank phone calls to his mother who is working abroad in Italy. Sorin reluctantly goes along for the ride but seems to be struggling with secret battles and desires of his own. Are we witnessing adolescent fun gone too far, or are these signs of destructive narcissism and a harm to come?
A series of four films presented as educational clips about work safety in a chemical factory presents a multi-layered reflection on the ambiguity of life and death, waking and dreaming, seen through oppressive black and white images and episodic narrative. The enigmatic story of a young couple employed in a socialist factory is characterized by the constant repetition and variation of motifs that ironically violate safety rules. „Inhale as much air as possible, to have what to offer.“
The story of love and survival of a young engineer in the days of "transition". Her struggle, unemployed (following the restructuring of the company where she worked), to survive in a society in prolonged transition. She faces undeserved hardships in the environments to which she is forced to resort.
Rares claims his real name is Costin Dumitru. Six years ago, he was murdered by a neighbour, then buried in the school back-yard. No one believes Rares. But that’s just until the investigation starts…
