According to Google, Cătălin Bordea is the most popular stand-up comedian in Romania, especially recently. Bordea chose to unravel the events he recently experienced in a special material, released for the first time in cinemas.
"Aflați despre mine..." stands as a quintessential social documentary from the perspective of 1980s filmmakers, delving into the effects of labor migration from agriculture to urban industry. Filmed in bachelor accommodations, it captures the intimate confessions of residents, offering faces and voices to the societal shifts in socialist times. The documentary, set against a backdrop of dormitory life, features a nuanced soundtrack blending informal interviews with the monotony of daily routines. Panning from window to window, the camera reveals the aspirations of temporary dwellers dreaming of a future beyond provisional living and aiming to settle into homes of their own.
Born in 1943 in Bessarabia region, Victor was forced to flee his homeland because of the war. After 77 years, his grandson, Dan, goes back there with his grandpa, Victor, who is recounting memories and seeking information about his birth and his lost relatives, in the country that is now the Republic of Moldova.
Up in the sky, the sun, and another sun, the other’s double. A simple superimposition invokes with all its strength the imaginary and poetics of anticipation, raising, at the same time, the problem of the double. What does the supreme singular represent for our culture of mass reproduction?
Bearing the signature melancholy, affection, and absurdist irony of associative form that would define his filmography, Copel Moscu’s debut is a loving portrait of miners and their arduous, sun-deprived existence.
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.
Two best friends get through the most challenging moment of their friendship and it all starts when they find each other’s personal diaries.
Following a triggering experience, Eden, the titular character, retreats into her inner world. There she goes through a process of self-discovery, starting from a sense of discomfort with her queer, non-conformist side, and finally reaching self-acceptance and a renewed courage to face the outside world.
The film is a classical process-film that describes the making of commercial products, from initial manufacturing of raw material to final selling.
Counterintelligence film from communist Romania. Also known as "Stația pilot"
Two years after its founding, Vivi Drăgan Vasile makes an assessment of the Foundation: “An idea was born, namely that market economy should somehow also work in favour of the artists. Some outlawry, in other words.” It includes images from George Soros’ visit at FAV and a board meeting of the Foundation.
The film tells the story of a man that goes through life being an actual clown. Not by choice, he is just born this way. We get to watch him going through a few crucial moments of his life like his birth, school, job, first love. We witness his downfall as life becomes harder and people become meaner.
An unconventional chronicle of the literary and artistic Romanian avant-garde. The film recreates the atmosphere of those frenzied years (1916-1947) in the spirit of the avant-garde, through a bewildering collage of fundamental texts and images.
Shot in a cinéma verité style, a group of students make a film in Botosani penitentiary. They start to follow Gheorghita, a worker from the kitchen. He is working hard to gain the trust of the guards and to blend in with his fellow inmates. As the students get closer to him, they realise how the environment ends up shaping the identity of the individual.
"Portavoce" (Megaphone) traces back the evolution of a culture of protest in Romania, developing in recent years, through the voices and opinions of key actors involved in social mobilization, in direct actions and in the development of a cultural scene favorable to political involvement.
A movie about chickens and kids. The film was made in 1985, but screened only in 1990 for reasons that even Communist censors found hard to explain. A chicken farm that was very modern for its time included a kindergarten reserved for the employees’ children. The film uses the parallel between raising chicken and human babies as the starting point for a meditation on human nature.
