Populär Vun Romania

This is one of hundreds of so-called „ephemeral” films produced by the documentary studio in the wake of serious accidents on Romania’s roads. As was always the case in such films, the guilty party is the driver himself – one of the aims of this category of film was to assign unequivocal guilt. Yet, what makes this coarse lesson, brought to life by actors and non-professionals, more relevant today than it was at the time of its production is its ability to capture more than the event itself and thereby to provide us with a glimpse of the period in which it was produced.

Lexi, a 19-year-old girl, poor, with a life full of difficulties, writes lyrics and music in a notebook. Before an important meeting that can change her life and in which her notebook would play a crucial role, Lexi loses the notebook.

A poem about the memory of objects in which the things that furnish a house are described.

After moving to Bucharest, Sânziana reflects on how this change has affected her perception of herself and her body.

Three troubleshooters are sent into a remote field to fix a broken cable. The cold, too much ardour and a little bit of vodka will make their work useless.

An adaptation of a fairy tale written by Carmen Sylva, the pen name of the Queen of Romania.

Short film from the Delta Space Mission film series. A giant tornado pulls the Delta spaceship into the endless ocean of a strange planet.

"My Socialist Home" is a documentary film exploring the significance of gender in the constitution of domestic space in the socialist and postsocialist state.

Feelings change quickly. Love becomes hate, then it turns into love again. Two men from different worlds, a relationship that goes beyond their own limits.

A 92-year-old man, having outlived major historical events such as war, peace, communism, the revolution and post-revolution, opens up about his life and old age.

Poet, musician, intellectual, and committed communist Nina Cassian wrestled for decades with the central contradiction of her life: how to reconcile her artistic ideals with the strict censorship imposed by Romania’s Communist Party — a tension that put her at odds with the totalitarian Ceaușescu regime and eventually led to her exile. Interweaving archival footage with firsthand interviews, this thought-provoking documentary illuminates the complex relationships between art, politics, and personal truths.

Depicts the stories of 8 torture victims from Pitesti prison, who tell the stages and tortures they were forced to go through, he moods they experienced, and give us their considerations about the purpose and effects of the action.

An elderly couple enjoy life but grieve over the finiteness of it all. This love story tells itself in images, and the filmmaker, also the couple's grandson, keeps himself invisible.

Short film by Romanian director

Documentary about a young Romanian Orthodox novice undergoing the rite to become a nun.

The Resocializing Center at the Neuropsychiatry Hospital 'Alexandru Obregia' is a more or less Utopian attempt to reinstate the mentally ill back into the 'system', into society. Beyond the succes or the failure of this attempt, the emotional memory keeps the inner poetry of some personal worlds - as a way to survive in a chaotic and absurd reality - and, in the end, the relativity of the 'normality' concept.

Typically, every year, May 1st opens the summer season, always crowded with crowds that rush to the seaside to mark the start of summer with joy and gusto, on which occasion going out of town becomes an event. In 2020, however, May 1 comes with a muted and deserted atmosphere. In contrast to the usual days of May 1, this year, the silence and desolation of the sea were the consequences of the extreme quarantine of that period, in the midst of a global pandemic.

One can achieve a free life only in an irreconcilable struggle against the class enemy. With this slogan, after being wounded, Mikhail returns from the civil war to one of the Moldovan villages, creates a Council of the Poor and makes the first decision — to plow the landlords' lands... The film takes place in the spring of 1917.