مشهور له Romania

Two boys find a kernel of corn.

At a crossroads in a village, an old water pump stands as a testament to the passage of time.

Two characters separated by a deep gulf strive to build a solid bridge between the two sides.

A modern parable about the man who learns to build walls and houses.

Nela, Vic, Bogdănel and Mihai go through a series of adventures with the innocence of childhood.

Cafeneaua viitorului preserves an ephemeral episode in the history of the internet, today a phenomenon difficult to dissociate from everyday experience, then a novelty that barely captured the attention of a diverse audience.

The film confronts the reality of cultural displacement and the search for identity, framed by my family’s own longing for the Romanian culture, absent in American surroundings. There Are No Fir Trees Here is a story about the spaces we inhabit and the yearning for a place that feels like home.

A small part of Ion Tarara's photographic archive is put in sentimental order by his daughter, on which occasion she rethinks the poetics of archivism.

The second film is about the adventures of the shepherd boy Andriesh. Based on the poem by Emilian Bukov.

This film consists of almost twenty minutes coverage of a political rally, filmed by more than ten Sahia cameramen, during the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of 23 August 1944, ‘the first day of the socialist era’. The Hottest Day is part of a rich author filmography, which includes around one hundred titles, such as A Life Dedicated to the Happiness of the People (1978); Homage (1983); The Party, The Homeland, The People (1986); Heroic Times in Legendary Lands (1987). When the Sahia documentaries obediently followed their political commission, their length could surpass the usual ten to twenty minutes, even reaching feature length. The Hottest Day was one of the shortest film in this category that we could find in the archives.

Created with a political-educational purpose and, at the end of the ‘70s, incorporated into the Cîntarea României (Song to Romania) Festival, the Film Festival for the Villages was one of the longest running cultural-political events in Socialist Romania. This film, conceived as a marketing device / trailer for an upcoming festival, is an example of Sahia ephemera. Seen today, it gives us a chance to carry out an ad-hoc archaeology of the film festival as an institution. The film served to increase the festival’s visibility around the country, to announce the dates of the event, and to build expectations among audiences for a certain time of year—in this case, 12 December 1959-31 March 1960.