In a Transylvanian village, locals of various backgrounds play football in the 5th-league team Vulturul Ţaga, which is officially the weakest team in entire Romania. The team's catastrophic evolution during the last season stands proof: all their 30 matches ended with a loss! And the new season starts with a disaster: 2-17. However, the players haven't lost either their hope or their passion for the game and they continue to play football.
A diary of a journey through space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present and childhood memories of the past. While traveling across Romania in the year of its EU accession, the narrative reflects on transition, the re-writing of history and the relation between images and memory.
An old man is in need of a surgery. He goes to the hospital pushed by his wife who has arranged everything. What it should be a simple medical intervention turns into a meeting with the destiny. Will the old man understand the meaning of this encounter?
1969 Animation by Sabin Balasa
The film follows the life and work of Romanian visual artist ION GRIGORESCU, one of the pioneers of experimental art in Europe. The film discusses our evanescent existence, morality, and spirituality and interrogates the possible extent of the inglorious recollection of our own biography.
Film is an exploration of a special universe: the annual vacation of a bunch of 70-year-old ladies. Far from men and the madness of daily life, Cica, Nana and their friends isolate themselves voluntarily in a villa in the countryside. Together they blend joie de vivre and memories, melancholia and joyfulness, gossip and jokes. All that to keep up the illusion that time has not passed, that they are still the same beautiful and attractive girls they were 50 years ago.
While waiting for his blind date, Alex meets some old friends and makes a few new ones.
The memory of a tragedy of passion – a double murder that took place in a shepherd’s village 50 years ago – is preserved in the form of a ballad. The villagers recall the events and the musicians talk about the birth of this song that lacks the victim’s point of view, because the assassin is the one who commissioned them to compose this ballad.
Escaping from a totalitarian society, in which music is banned, is rendered impossible, and the violent death of the artists, imposed by the supreme ruler, is carried out with no hesitation by his obedient servants.
Although Romania is a European modern cosmopolitan country, its population kept a narrow minded traditional mentality. Catalin and Cristi are a gay couple struggling to live in this rough reality.
Laura has to face her disillusion with love and life as well as her prejudices when her best friend Ana is coming back from Germany with Ines, her attractive and open minded female lover.
A father raises his three children alone, while his wife is looking for work abroad.
He wants her. She wants him. Both of them in one bed. Even though they have been declaring their love for each other for more than a year now, it’s still not enough for their love affair to resist even though they've seen each other so many times already. It’s not routine. It’s not boredom. It’s something we all face at one point. And when you think everything will work out, here comes reality knocking everything down.
Following the death of his wife, a father is trying to take care of his daughter, amidst a murder mystery which concerns both of them.
Short film by Romanian director.
Ani and Sanda are two girls from Maramuresh who grew up with their grandparents. Their parents are working in Spain, like so many other Romanians. When they left, their common project looked promising: with the money earned in Spain they shall build a house in which the whole family will be happy. After more than 10 years, things haven’t turned out as planned, and the big house is far from being finished. Laura Căpățână-Juller accompanied Ani and Sanda for three years, following with a tender and talented eye the struggles of these two girls turned into teenagers while their parents were away.
