Alter ego

Alter ego 1977

1

A clay figure sees its face reflected in the water of a river.

1977

Judicial Ballistics

Judicial Ballistics 1990

1

An introduction in judicial ballistics and the ways of interpreting and analysing marks, ammunitions and weapons used in judiciary analysed cases.

1990

Letter from the New Town

Letter from the New Town 1978

1

What more understated, and yet more effective, ode to urbanization than Mesaroș’s film, which consists entirely from dynamic black&white photographs connected by a voice-over commentary written from the perspective of a naughty pre-teen boy who enjoys to the full the benefits of modernization? His village (Nehoiu, in Buzău county) is about to become a town; the boy writes a letter to his cousin from the capital, Bucharest, to tell him about his daily life. As in Red Flag, humour is a crucial element employed to smooth down the otherwise transparent political ‘message’ of the film: when the boy swallows a button, the mother takes him to the “new” hospital, where the doctors take an x-ray picture “to see if it’s from the shirt or the pants”; the machine is “so good” that they can clearly see what sort of button it is.

1978

Goodbye, Castle!

Goodbye, Castle! 1970

1

Co-financed by AFCN - the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and implemented by the Untold Stories Association

1970

First Strike

First Strike 1970

1

On a lazy summer afternoon family road trip, a 10-year-old boy lays on the backseat of the car and drifts away in a daydream. He envisions a rivalry with a gang of feral kids, a fight for supremacy in the shape of a football. His reverie soon surpasses the unpredictable reality and continues even after death.

1970

Avram Iancu Against the Empire

Avram Iancu Against the Empire 2024

7.00

The revolution of 1848 awakens the European nations. In Transylvania, Romanians gather around Avram Iancu, a 24-year-old lawyer who becomes the military leader who leads the armed resistance.

2024

The Same Dream

The Same Dream 2021

1

Doru is a Romanian soldier on his first mission to Afghanistan. Laila is an Afghan girl. They've met for a brief second and from that moment their destinies became intertwined. This film, finding itself on the border between documentary and fiction, tells the stories of a soldier marked by the brutality of war and that of a young girl who had been in the wrong place, in the wrong time. The director combines archival footage from the war in Afghanistan with beautifully shot personal images, in a film about the cruelty of war, from the perspective of both the invaders and of the civilians trapped within.

2021

Stela, In the Name of the Father

Stela, In the Name of the Father 2021

6.00

“I’ve been a robber, a thief, a thug. I blew my veins out, I drank, I drank and I fucked chicks. I never stole from the poor. I’m HIV-positive since 16 years. I’m repenting over time. I cleaned myself from my sins. I committed offenses but I never took a human life away. Not yet. Haven’t got an abortion either. These are mortal sins - and as for the others, I paid already. I’ve been the worst of bitches but in this life already I’ve seen the light. My name is Stela, I’m 42 years old and I spent 10 of them in jail. Chaos is my life.”

2021

Contraindications

Contraindications 2019

7.50

Awaiting her husband’s visit from abroad, a woman is having a nervous breakdown as her mother finds out she hasn’t yet made up her mind about the divorce.

2019