Ana Blandiana, one of Europe’s most important poets, is a symbol in the fight for democracy and freedom of speech, values again under threat. A history refracted through poetry, 'Between Silence and Sin' explores the power of the word as the last bastion of a nation’s collective soul in the face of oppression.
On a lazy summer afternoon family road trip, a 10-year-old boy lays on the backseat of the car and drifts away in a daydream. He envisions a rivalry with a gang of feral kids, a fight for supremacy in the shape of a football. His reverie soon surpasses the unpredictable reality and continues even after death.
" The electronic computer - with its many possibilities of fast data processing - is not strictly used in scientific and economic fields anymore, it now plays a direct part in the production process. Filmed at the Galați Steel Mill, the film shows the ways in which the computer conducts the production of steel, making fast decisions in as little time as possible, in raport to the variety of situations which may occur. "
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.
The revolution of 1848 awakens the European nations. In Transylvania, Romanians gather around Avram Iancu, a 24-year-old lawyer who becomes the military leader who leads the armed resistance.
The first ever presidential debate in Romania
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?
Theory and practice meet with the sound of reality.
A boy keeps waiting for his friend.
A landscape is a landscape is a landscape. But in her view of the ambiguity of reality, Wanda Mihuleac composes an infinite landscape of reflections and lights.
Counterintelligence film from communist Romania. Also known as "Stația pilot"
Two friends make a bet that Valera won’t milk Ana’s goat. In the night they come drunk and break into Ana’s yard. Ana tries to stop them and becomes their victim.
Night after night, two friends keep getting in a fight over which movie they are going to watch.
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The first film produced by FAV is a sociopolitical musical featuring Valeriu Sterian and the Sound Company, from which we extracted four of the ten songs of the “album” (Escu, The future political prisoners want to know, We will be what we have been, and A plea without a bridle.)
Shukar Collective play bear tamer music using spoons, wooden barrels or daraboukas, whilst a couple of DJs add layer after layer of urban sound over this traditional music. It is this kind of eclectic environment that best describes what the documentary deals with: culture contact.
A movie about chickens and kids. The film was made in 1985, but screened only in 1990 for reasons that even Communist censors found hard to explain. A chicken farm that was very modern for its time included a kindergarten reserved for the employees’ children. The film uses the parallel between raising chicken and human babies as the starting point for a meditation on human nature.
The author's grandparents were Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, without territory and written language, wandering between mountains and seas. Their story is told from the subjective point of view of the artist, who passionately reproduces in staged scenes this perpetual tragic wandering, also full of hope and courage to live.
