Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her.
Unable to accept that his glory days are long gone, the "king of the violin" Caliu has to reinvent himself. Swinging between the challenges of the present and the memories of his international career, for Caliu only the music has remained the same.
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
Young men from all over the world have been meeting at the Blue Boy Bar in Berlin for forty years.
A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.
The murder of two workers and a high school student triggers a series of investigations, the conclusions of which are eagerly awaited. After several attempts, a sergeant manages to catch the killer.
Somewhere, in a small provincial town in Moldova in the winter of 1992, a young girl named Ema is silently wandering through all sorts of charmless places, in search of meaning or enjoyment
Young Felix moves into his eccentric uncle’s house and is immediately drawn to the enigmatic Otilia, a free-spirited woman who lives by her own rules. Love, inheritance games, decaying mansions, and fragile hearts collide in this elegant adaptation of George Călinescu’s novel Enigma Otiliei.
An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest's sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism
Famous Romania communist propaganda movie, one of the templates to what followed. It is about the volunteers that built the Bumbești-Livezeni railroad.
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
Three youngsters are sent to "re-education through labor" on a hydro dam construction site. They prove in the end to fare much better than some of their colleagues.
Three bored teens, whose testy fights get settled by a giant teddy bear on the street, share stories of their tense home lives one summer night.
A love story that happens in the background Revolution in Timișoara.
A research center in Sukhumi, the capital of today’s Abkhazia. Legend has it that it was built at the end of the 1920s to create a hybrid between man and monkey. The hypothetical creature never saw the light of day, but people and primates, like sad relics of the past, live together in the derelict wings of the medical institute to this very day. [KVIFF]
A farm in Romania, far from any city. A young woman, Cristina, returns to her family after years away. Her parents treat her like a leper. Cristina only feels some kind of affection and familiarity for her younger sister, Marina. Where Cristina has been and how she has managed to survive remain unspoken – as indeed everything remains unspoken in the idyll of this apparently, at first glance, very tranquil place...
Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.
Film student Cătălina teams up with ex-rock star Marchizu' to film his comeback music video, but his resemblance to a childhood nightmare begins to blur reality. The encounter makes her question her memory and identity.
Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
