Happiness Is So Close

Happiness Is So Close 1977

6.70

Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college.

1977

Dear Intellectuals

Dear Intellectuals 2020

1

Radu Jude's contribution to Cinem@casa, which he produced in isolation during the pandemic.

2020

Canton

Canton 2005

6.00

Two railroad men are living in a lineman's cabin. One night a stranger has an accident on the beach nearby that will change everything.

2005

Occident

Occident 2002

6.70

"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.

2002

Silent Wedding

Silent Wedding 2008

7.30

In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.

2008

Tuesday, After Christmas

Tuesday, After Christmas 2010

6.35

Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

2010

The Whistlers

The Whistlers 2019

6.00

A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.

2019

Skugos

Skugos 2016

6.00

Skugos is the perfect town where all is sunny and nobody laughs. Mr.Q discovers laughter and sets off to look for the place where people enjoy laughing. Will he find out that laughter means happiness?

2016

Sequences...

Sequences... 1982

6.50

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

1982

Box

Box 2015

6.38

Box is a story of two people who meet at a crossroad. Two different destinies, two different lives, face to face in a game of sweat, blood and tears. Rafael (19) is a young boxer who dreams to conquer the world; Cristina (33) is a single mother who lost her balance. Two lives; one running very close to the earth, the other trying to fly high up, too high.

2015

The Headlight

The Headlight 2018

7.00

Radu Iovan and his high moral principles become the target of a ten thousand souls wager between God and Satan.

2018

The Last Day

The Last Day 2017

8.00

Adrian, a man from a provincial town, has decided to start a new life as a monk. The mayor, the policeman and the leader of the Christian Youth Association accompany their friend on his way to the monastery.

2017

Grandpa and Two Young Offenders

Grandpa and Two Young Offenders 1976

5.80

A police officer is investigating the disappearance of a colleague's young boy. His key seems to be the "dark skinned" friend of the boy about whom nobody cares, including the police.

1976

Dismissed

Dismissed 2024

9.00

A freelance journalist investigates a mysterious AI corporation after a fire claims the life of its star employee. As he races to uncover the truth, he unravels a web of secrets, exposing the AI software's dangerous impact on the world and on the sanity of its employees.

2024

Kowalski

Kowalski 2014

6.17

Three men go into a pub. The first man has too many questions. The second man has the perfect plan. The third man has no chance.

2014

Jacob

Jacob 1988

6.80

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.

1988

Ceata

Ceata 2017

5.70

Sami and Dora are husband and wife, they have an age-gap marriage filled with compromises. Now they are waiting the social worker from the adoption agency to come at their home to decide if they are eligible to adopt a child. But they are caught in a moral dilemma: can buying a life be the price of saving their own relationship?

2017

Mikado

Mikado 2022

5.70

One day, teenager Magda offers her expensive necklace to a sick child in the hospital she volunteers for- her father is certain she is lying again. When she proves her innocence, he is ashamed and guilty but also incapable of admitting he was wrong. Relationships are now broken and in chaos, and past decisions have an irreversible outcome.

2022

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023

6.93

On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.

2023