Being Romanian: A Family Journal is the story of millions of Romanians who, through various circumstances, have ended up living between these borders and having to stand each other: just the way things happen in every large family. This is a journey through space and time, where family bridges the gap between every moment that has united us or torn us apart during the last 100 years since the Great Union that marked the birth of modern Romania.
A pandemic love story between the last two people on Earth and their reluctance to repopulate.
Chronicle of a Visit Foretold is part of a series of three music videos made by Andrieș at FAV and talks sarcastically about the visit of King Michael I, which was blocked by president Iliescu.
1966 Animation by Sabin Balasa
One of the first sociological and ethnographic documentary films worldwide, made by the team of sociologists and students of Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955) in the village of Drăguş, Făgăraş County, Romania.
In a rural community full of religious certainty, right on the place where God came, young shepherd Lucian seems to be stranded between belief and disbelief.
The film describes Goldfaden's journey from Iasi to New York via Odessa and Sankt Petersburg.
Two characters, a carriage and a horse. Where are they going? Towards what? Joy, torment and undefinable music. Vulnerable, yet not ready to surrender. They are the poets of time.
This 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years.
An abbot establishes a monastery on a disused airfield in the southern Romanian plains. He proves to be just as knowledgeable about strategic issues of national security as he is about ecclesiastical matters. But things don't turn out to be quite so spiritual on God's runway after all.
The film presents several young people from rural areas whom the new communist regime helped to integrate into the labor field of the socialist state, thus breaking with the ancestral tradition.
After several years in which Justice has almost completely disappeared from the public agenda, Romanian society has woken up to a difficult reality, in which high-level corruption cases are systematically buried. Famous defendants acquitted on appeal after receiving heavy years of imprisonment in the first instance, trials delayed until the acts reach the statute of limitations, final convictions that are re-evaluated and wiped clean. In addition, suspicions have begun to hover over the DNA regarding the blocking of criminal investigations.
In a remote village, two mobsters in a samurai-inspired clan hide a secret affair involving katana fantasies. When discovered, they must duel to decide who stays in the clan.
Andi and Laura are pushed into an unexpected challenge that tests courage and loyalty.
Ariadna puts a spell on her cheating ex-boyfriend, Victor. Two months later, Victor pays her an unexpected visit asking for a tarot reading. He needs help making a decision. His uncle offered him a good job, but Victor has to leave the city for that. Disappointed by the reason of the visit, Ariadna does the tarot reading, but she can’t tell whether the spell worked or not.
Six-year-old Alma won’t accept her Grandpa’s endless sleep, so she takes him out for one last adventure together.
MODERN PRIMITIVE, the only body suspension team from Romania, broke up. It's members, Dragoș, George and Ovidiu reorganized themselves continuing to do body suspensions, each one in their own style.
On set, a young couple of actors rehearse a love scene without success.
Animated film about the dangers of drunk driving.
