Lara - Aribelle si mana destinului

Lara - Aribelle si mana destinului 2019

8.80

Aribelle (Ari) is an amnesiac teenage girl stranded in a dangerous metropolis, Lost City, with only the clothes on her back and a heart-shaped locket. She meets Hugo, a very resourceful orphan kid who becomes her best friend. In a rather amusing situation Ari borrows the name Lara because he can't remember her real name. The action takes place in two cities, Capital City and Lost City, before the accident and after the accident in which Lara loses her memory and ends up in Lost City. The two, Lara and Hugo go through all sorts of adventures and end up at the city orphanage. Fausta, the director of the orphanage, is truly evil and has her own plans for Lara and Hugo.

2019

Timebox

Timebox 2018

8.00

Professor Ioan-Matei Agapi, an 80-year-old photographer and cameraman from Iași, Romania, owns a unique collection of 16mm films and photographs documenting almost fifty years of the city’s history. His daughter, also a filmmaker, has decided to make a film about her father's archives. In the unconventional surroundings of his old apartment, he reminisces about the past until one day, Ioan is informed that he must leave or be evicted from the apartment where he has spent the past 40 years. Ioan’s years of work suddenly transform into a huge burden, and the film unexpectedly changes into drama in which conflicts with city officials reveal old and hidden conflicts within the family.

2018

Seven Words

Seven Words 2015

8.00

Seven Words is the story of a man who spent 21 years behind bars, fighting for his beliefs

2015

Are You Sure About This?

Are You Sure About This? 2011

1

A documentary about the influence of music on identity. Interviews with musicians, composers and audiences at concerts. Can music improve behavior? And if so, how does this work?

2011

Brancusi from Eternity

Brancusi from Eternity 2014

5.70

3 stories, 3 characters and 3 periods of time are at the center of the film. The main story is about Brancusi's mature period, following his arrival in Paris, during his friendship with Modigliani and his relationship with Martha, his favorite model. The second story is about a Fine Arts student. Due to the massive criticism of some Romanian Academy members, who didn't recognize Brancusi's work first, he wanted to leave Romania and sent to prison for 13 years. After he's released the value of Brancusi's work has changed in Romania and now the former security forces him to forge some of Brancusi's works. The third story has at its center a great scholar who lived in Tibet in the XII century. He is the link between sculptor and forger, a link between their destinies

2014

Theodora the Sinner

Theodora the Sinner 2012

3.50

Documentary about a young Romanian Orthodox novice undergoing the rite to become a nun.

2012

Nicolae & Elena

Nicolae & Elena 1991

1

The world managed to testify the execution of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, on Christmas day after a turmoil of events. At the same time, some viewers doubted the veracity of such actual killings. This short film challenges the notion of reality while adding some fiction to those events.

1991

Tatie Lica la bossue

Tatie Lica la bossue 2026

1

Eva flies back from France expecting a simple funeral. What she gets is a hunchbacked grandma, a furious village priest, and a coffin that just won’t fit. With the church refusing to bend and the body refusing to straighten, Eva is forced to navigate small-town absurdities, family pressure, and funeral logistics that defy common sense.

2026

Love Changes Everything

Love Changes Everything 1970

1

In a small Eastern European city, Adrian’s joyful proposal to Lena is shattered when her father firmly opposes their marriage, citing fear, responsibility, and an unfinished future. Caught between love and parental authority, the couple is forced to confront tradition, pride, and sacrifice. In the end, it is Lena’s simple, unwavering declaration of love that proves strongest—showing that love, when honest and brave, can change everything.

1970

The Journals of Hrib

The Journals of Hrib 1974

1

By the time Slavomir Popovici filmed this documentary, his protagonist was already famous for the museum of history and folk art he had established in his house in Arbore village. His museum was visited by thousands of tourists each year, while the journals that he had kept for four decades had been published in 1972 as The Chronicle from Arbore. Hrib was a peasant autodidact from Bucovina, North Romania. Although he was an eccentric, he was also the perfect film protagonist for 1970s Romanian documentary.

1974

Nae

Nae 1997

1

Armed with a gun he finds thrown in the corner of the block of flats where he lives, Nae sets off on a nocturnal adventure through the city. Influenced by his cinephile imagination, the reality of the almost deserted streets merges with a noir drama atmosphere he obsessively watches. Projected into the grey landscape of Bucharest in the late 1990s, the tragic and absurd action of Cristian Lucian Dobrovicescu's short film is cut out and stylized in the manner of comics.

1997

Antinterview

Antinterview 1983

1

A portrait of the caricaturist Mihai Stănescu, the film is not a conventional documentary, as it resorts to small comic scenes that highlight the playful personality of the plastic artist. "Antiinterviu" contains a prologue conceived in the aesthetics of silent comedies, with a little boy who scribbles on any surface he finds, from the walls of buildings to the clothes of citizens standing in line at the Alimentara, being chased and pulled by the ears by police officers and other adults around him for his disobedience. The defiant attitude of Mihai Stănescu, known at the time for his caricatures with political allusions, also appears to have a mischievous dimension.

1983

Pottery

Pottery 1972

1

The film begins as a cultural reportage of the most conventional kind, with a series of frames filmed around Peleș Castle, set to classical music and accompanied by a commentary describing the museum's ceramic collection. What is surprising in this construction is the unusual effect that the natural setting, chosen as the original backdrop of the presentation, has on the exhibits. Removed from the museum and displayed outdoors, the objects fail to resonate with nature and stand out like anomalies in the wintery, postcard-like landscape. But the romantic surplus of Chopin's music, which is added to the increasingly abstract visual compositions, with vases, trinkets and precious tableware fancifully placed in the water of a stream and among snowy fir trees, represents an at least extravagant attempt to deviate from the aesthetic norm.

1972

Uşa

Uşa 1993

1

Two identical hotel rooms, two phone conversations, a single door and a single point of view from which all these glimpses of days in the lives of two strangers are captured: a man in transit through an unidentified provincial town (we only get to know that it's somwehere in the mountains) and a woman who came from far away to seek a better life, who makes love for money every night. The film's visual minimalism, the elliptic, fragmented narrative structure, the lack of a clearly-articulated theme turn this experiment into an early exemplar of a certain type of modernism, which would reach its peak in Romania only two decades later.

1993