A tale from the 16th century narrates the story of Ursula, a female figure disguised as a man, who successfully chased away occupying intruders (at that time, the Ottomans) using the supersonic sound of a whip. This account purportedly originated in Cincu, the Transylvanian village which today houses one of N.A.T.O.’s key combat training zones in Romania.
"Sisyphus" is a take on insignificance, repetition and the invisible chains that bind us to the routine of our daily lives.
A film-deconstruction of a propaganda cliché and a human experience of "existence through culture" in communism. In the midst of the transition process from the old tsarist structures and the integration of Bessarabia into the national state, Romania was subjected to permanent aggressions by the Soviets. The critical threshold of these Soviet challenges to Romania was reached in September 1924 in Tatarbunar, a small fair in Cetatea Albă county, inhabited by 70% Russians and Ukrainians. Every nation has a Tatarbunar!
The documentary follows Doru Chirodea, the most unknown poet from Timisoara, whose activity begins in the United States, in the second half of the ‘80s, where he is known in some underground, non-academic circles, in the niche world of zines and independent literary magazines. Back in his hometown, he makes periodic book releases, published in a DIY fashion, in obscure and ephemeral bars, but with a core for a certain local bohemia, on the way to extinction. The film calmly reflects on this end of a lifestyle that already belongs to another era.
While hunting a mysterious boar, a man gets lost in the forest. He encounters increasingly strange things, and his life is put in danger.
Dir. Leonard Hentiu, Catalina Femoaga, Comel Mihalache, Elefterie Voiculescu, Vivi Dragan-Vasile, Stefan Gladin.
Nata and Aaron - one Moldovan and one American get married in Moldova. Antics follow, Nata gets kidnapped, Aaron drinks champagne out of her shoe, a seven year old sleeps drunk on the floor. Will their marriage be as they hoped, or will it go awry?
Self-exiled in Turkey since 1999 and recently expelled, Mr. Constantin discovers that he had been declared dead by the Romanian authorities, at the request of his wife.
A bunch of young people, more or less hippies, waste time at the cinema with a dull film. On-screen, a man lies on the railway and awaits his end. But at some point the screen and reality become the same. Edited without dialogue, with songs by the Velvet Underground and Nico in the background, this is a portrait of the young generation of actors of the moment.
Bogdan Mihailescu creates a short animation about the famous Gopo`s little man.
What if as a result of the Original Sin, God didn't cast out both Adam and Eve from Paradise? What if the actual punishment were more sinister than that? If you had to wait an entire life just to see your lover, could you endure it?
An unusual attempt at cinéma vérité, in which people are asked if they are happy, while city lights flood the summer nights to the strains of a tender croon.
The life of Mara, a teenage girl from rural Romania in the 1950s, is turned upside down after her parents arrange a marriage for her with a wealthy young man from a neighboring village. Mara finds herself in a situation with no escape, and her romantic feelings for her friend, Ioana, upset her completely.
An industrial documentary that shows the whole process of clothes and shoe making, from cutting animal skin to final selling of the finite products in the factory shop.
The film is a classical process-film that describes the making of commercial products, from initial manufacturing of raw material to final selling.
The film didactically exemplifies a few police and coroner procedures, from gathering clues at a crime scene to doing autopsies.
