Hotel Cișmigiu

Hotel Cișmigiu 1992

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Florin Iepan's unsettling film documents the famous case of a student who, due to the lack of light in the corridors of the Cișmigiu Hotel - a student dormitory at the time- and a malfunction of the elevator, fell into the elevator shaft and died. The camera, which flies over the exterior and interiors of the Cișmigiu Hotel with extraordinary mobility, suggesting an extracorporeal perspective, captures the desolate poverty the residents of the dormitory used to live in during the first years after the Revolution.

1992

When Spring Is Hot

When Spring Is Hot 1961

6.00

Two soldiers, Tică and Grigore, return from the front on a two-day leave to their home village. The action begins in the spring of 1945. Grigore is unpleasantly surprised to find his name on the monument to fallen soldiers and his girlfriend Ana married to another man.

1961

Megaphone

Megaphone 2018

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"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.

2018

Exodus Towards Light

Exodus Towards Light 1979

6.00

Opened by a self portrait, the film offers images of blind violence against women and children and a god killing an ant and with this crime, creating extinction of human race, it shows the images of cultural heroes, from Shakespeare to Einstein, to Mona Lisa and Don Quijote.

1979

You Are Ceaușescu to Me

You Are Ceaușescu to Me 2021

7.00

An experimental blend of documentary and fiction in which young people aged between 15 and 22 from different backgrounds are auditioning for the role of young Nicolae Ceausescu in the mid-1930s while trying to find the drive behind his actions.

2021

The Things We Hide in Silence

The Things We Hide in Silence 2021

2.00

After a self-exploratory workshop called “Primitive Voice”, Mihai and Octavia decide to embark on a painful and uncomfortable journey within themselves. Using their voices in unconventional ways along this transformative process, they both confront memories, emotions and patterns of behaviour which have kept them stuck into their past. Guided by the voice therapist Jean-René Toussaint and by a strong desire to find their inner freedom, they come to realize that meeting themselves brings them closer to the ones they love.

2021

God Plays Sax, the Devil Violin

God Plays Sax, the Devil Violin 2004

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They are patients in a psychiatric hospital in Romania and marginalized persons whose social status has been removed. You think they will only say crazy things, but you don't want them to be like ordinary people, be good, love, and even create often... It's just that all this is confined to the hospital wall. The title is a gimmick, just one sentence from a song sung by the patient in the film.

2004

Un gând, un vis, Doyle... si-un pix

Un gând, un vis, Doyle... si-un pix 2012

6.00

Constructed almost entirely from still photos masterfully synchronized with audio commentaries, this challenging doc tells the story of an adventurous one-man motorcycle expedition that spans over 21, 000 kilometers and 14 countries.

2012

Drăguș, viața unui sat românesc

Drăguș, viața unui sat românesc 1929

6.00

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.

1929

Monster

Monster 2020

6.00

Living a constant adolescent drama with the monster in her head, a young girl embarks on a spiritual journey in order to make peace with herself and with the ones around her.

2020

Anniversary

Anniversary 2019

1

Ioan Colţea, who is turning 91, lives in a quiet village in the mountains. Surrounded by his extended family, always serene and detached, he is now looking at his kids, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, with kindness, warmth and resignation in his eyes. The family gets together for an entire week not only to celebrate grandpa, but also to agree on building him a new grave and cross, all under Ioan Colţea’s strict observation.

2019

The Cursed Flower

The Cursed Flower 2019

1

While traveling to Maramures, Sara comes across Doina who offers her to stay at her place. They both have a glass of wine when they start hearing sounds of people dancing from the forest.

2019