Brothers Max and Gelu are determined to survive the COVID-19 pandemic currently sweeping Italy. The two return to their native Romanian village, where they think they will be safe. Regardless of costs or means, Max and Gelu will gain immunity to the virus...
A Moldovan village in the late forties. Andrei Brume, a Komsomol member, university student and MGB lieutenant, is on a mission to fight a criminal gang. The situation is extremely dramatic. On the one hand, there are night raids by Stratan's gang, on the other - endless official extortion, respectfully referred to as a "state loan", when the chairman of the collective farm, Maria Josan, groping the trigger of a revolver, calls on hard workers to respond to the call of the Motherland...
Radu, 45, rich and single, manages his business with a strong, unwavering hand and no scruples. His competition is now leading a charge against him on the stock market, which prompts Radu to remember a childhood game of beer bottle caps, a game that required risk-taking, effort and skill. A heart attack and the news that he might need a heart transplant determines him to head to a remote place, where the Danube river meets the sea, a place of simple people and age-old customs.
Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu.
Based on a Moldavian folklore following the story of the hero Fat-Frumos. Incredibly strong and smart, he leaves his childhood home after he hears three mysterious cries. He then journeys to save the beautiful Elaina from the captivity of the evil dragon Laur Balaur.
The tranquility of a small seaside town is disturbed by a strange event: some vagrants try to rape a girl. A young man jumps to her defense. Intre cei doi se infiripa an idila, pana cand his past seems to sail over the present with cynicism and impatience. A strange mystery floats between them, until the day he is found dead and the girl decides to unravel the mystery of his disappearance.
A love story between a worker and an architecture student from a well to do family that has to overcome prejudice.
The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.
Romina begins to fall in love with Valentin, a tourist on holiday in Costinești with plans to become a musician. Romina helps Valentin to become an artist and, without realizing, he is starting to look a lot like someone from Romina's past.
A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes - in a montage reminiscent of the Soviet avant-garde school of the 1920s - all kinds of shooting techniques and frame combinations.
During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill communist prisoners under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced transfer to another penitentiary.
Cosmin plays a tennis game with 3 friends. He looks at the clock and starts panicking: he is late to the Registry Office, to a wedding- his wedding, with his ex-wife, who he had divorced without his friends knowing. Everything starts in 2007 when the real-estate bubble reaches its peak. Cosmin gifts Reli a land on the edge of a lake, for their wedding anniversary. He plans to build 7 villas, sell them and win 1 million Euros.
“ania” is a documentary about a woman, who wished to become an artist. Now, she is looking back on her life with a lot of nostalgia and humour.
Sandu, a player, asks his friend to keep company to one of his conquests for a few hours. But then hours turn to a few days, and the two get to know each other better. Acting debut for Valeria Seciu.
The story of two men working with the underground movement in 1934.
The Romanian penitentiary system allows, from 2006, the marriage of people sentenced to serve time in prison. Most of the inmates cultivate the pre-existing relationships with the concubines or partners who live outside the prison walls. Though, there is a special category, of those who find a life partner during their time in prison. VISITING ROOM follows the stories of some prisoners found in different penitentiaries across the country, who have found their life partner during their sentence time. The one is either a person from outside, or as them, a person who is serving time in prison. Our intention was to talk to the people found in the special situation of being deprived of freedom, to whom love becomes a substitute for freedom and represents maybe their only hope for a better future.
Young Ela, trapped by the pandemic lock-down, peers out her window, unveiling the hidden lives of her neighbours – especially that of a mysterious boy. As a silent crisis unfolds, Ela's imagination becomes her secret weapon and when he needs help, she tries to reach him despite the distance.
A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.
The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.
It's year 0 of the pandemic. A young Roma father, Zoro, accompanied by his loyal companion, the horse Miguel, embarks on a transformative journey to the city to meet his newborn son for the very first time. In the challenges encountered on his way, his only weapons are his phone and the love he holds for his son.
