One Day in Bucharest

One Day in Bucharest 1987

10.00

A musical film about... one day on the streets of Bucharest, in the '80s, having Anca Sigartau as a tour guide.

1987

Loverboy

Loverboy 2011

5.60

Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his potential victims. It's summer down the Danube river, in Harsova. The music is loud, the cars are fancy, the girls are tanned and Veli runs away from home in Luca's bed. First love has never felt more dangerous.

2011

Alibaba

Alibaba 2023

6.00

A grandmother, a mother and her little girl meet at an oriental restaurant to negotiate the girl's transfer to a better school. Because they didn't manage to get the floating act, the grandmother calls her friend from a prestigious school to find out what the transfer possibilities are. After the phone call, the two women have to choose between a disability act, through which the niece will have to simulate a disability, or an ethnicity act which, as a consequence, will lead to the expulsion of a Roma child. Despite the grotesque bargain, the women end their lunch with a Turkish dessert

2023

The Trip

The Trip 2021

1

A married man has an affair with a much younger colleague. The two decide to celebrate her anniversary on a secluded island in the Danube Delta. From the moment they arrive, everything goes from bad to worse, without any logical explanation. After discovering that the only person who could take them back home is dead, the desperation to escape the island becomes uncontrollable, leading them to do unimaginable things to each other. Only one of them will leave the island in the end, answering the question that has haunted them since their arrival: Who else has been with them on the island all this time?

2021

Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter

Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter 2015

5.93

Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a "proper", bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in Earthquake Engineering, conversations with Alex and Michelle, her two close friends and occasional, eagerly awaited rendezvous' with Dan, a married man with whom she is romantically involved. After her parents move out of the family apartment into a new house, she decides to get a dog. It is something that she wanted ever since she was a child and now that she lives on her own she can finally fulfill this wish.

2015

Pisica de mare

Pisica de mare 1964

8.00

The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a spy named Sea Cat.

1964

The Winner

The Winner 1981

7.00

A successful boxer has a difficult time due to the fact that his family feels neglected.

1981

@Tiktok_Cowboy

@Tiktok_Cowboy 2024

1

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.

2024

Postcards with Wildflowers

Postcards with Wildflowers 1975

7.00

In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind. A quiet, devastating portrait of control, shame, and the cost of forbidden choices.

1975

By the Rails

By the Rails 2016

6.30

After a year away for work, a husband spends his first night back home trying to reconnect with a wife who seems more distant than he remembered.

2016

Forget About the Return

Forget About the Return 1985

6.00

In the port of Danzig, the military transport Tyrol is preparing to leave, on board which are selected SS units and seventy naval crews. The commander of the Soviet submarine "S-31", which received serious damage, receives the task of detecting and attacking enemy transport...

1985

Where It Is Cold in the Sun

Where It Is Cold in the Sun 1991

5.20

Along the Black Sea coast, we see a man and a woman arguing. They are apparently vacationers. Before long, the man has gotten back into their car and driven off, stranding the woman in a remote area. She hitches a ride with a delivery truck driver. At one of his stops, she gets off his truck to go to get some water. When the driver comes back to his truck and sees her gone, he assumes she has found another ride, and leave her. Once again, she is stranded. This time, the location is a lighthouse. She and the keeper have no recourse but to become acquainted, and for the next few days, that is what they do. Eventually, the man who left her in the lurch comes back to look for her, and finds her at the lighthouse.

1991

Y

Y 2025

1

Olga's grandmother, a successful lawyer, reveals on her deathbed that the adoptions she handled in the wake of the Romanian Revolution are riddled with shortcomings and the fate of many children unknown. Olga sets out to dig up the past.

2025

The Cruise

The Cruise 1981

7.00

The best workers from various factories in the communist system are rewarded a cruise on the Danube. The people in charge fight for bureaucratic reasons while the young ones are looking for adventure.

1981

Sthorzina

Sthorzina 2014

4.00

Viorel is 12 years old boy and he lives with his grandfather near the Danube river. He helps his grandfather to fix the figurines of an old merry-go-round. Mirko is the son of the local police officer on the Serbian shore of the Danube. The two kids have a remote controlled small boat which they use to send each other various objects. When Viorel finds a gun in his grandfather's attic their lives will change.

2014

The Bear

The Bear 2011

6.30

At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet the Germans. A crazy road movie starts following the bear.

2011

On the Impossibility of an Homage

On the Impossibility of an Homage 2024

10.00

Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.

2024

Mitrea Cocor

Mitrea Cocor 1952

8.00

Mitrea Kocor, a young butler, gives up his work in the fields to join Antonescu's Romanian army, which fought alongside Nazi forces during World War II. After spending time in Soviet captivity and a prisoner-of-war camp, he returns to his home village to participate in post-war reconstruction.

1952

On My Responsibility

On My Responsibility 1956

7.75

A fashion designer creates an ugly model and he won't back down against all advice.

1956

The Power and The Truth

The Power and The Truth 1972

8.00

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

1972