Borders 2017
A story which follows the borders that have silently grown between a man and a woman. Interior, emotional borders. The ones which separate us before any other.
A story which follows the borders that have silently grown between a man and a woman. Interior, emotional borders. The ones which separate us before any other.
Adaptation based on the sketch "Doi vecini" by Tudor Arghezi.
Young engineer Doru is called to the Prosecutor's Office and questioned on his wife's unlawful ways of making money. Soon he'll learn about her true character and he'll regret having broken up with Livia, a woman who truly loved him.
An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania.
A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set.
A journey; a country brought to its knees by a financial crisis; an actress and the banality of evil: a singleminded woman's life is severely jeopardised by one mistake... Inspired by an ancient, anonymous fairy-tale.
Five old friends spend a few days together in the resort they used to go in their youth. One of them will bring news that will perturb their holiday.
This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.
While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister experience, he tries to find out what had really happened.
A lunatic conductor-director brings to light a kaleidoscope of characters from a kind of insect. Comedy in "zig-zag" from smile to laugh, inspired by a book by humorist Valentin Silvestru.
Two lovers are kept away from each others during childhood because of a secret family recipe war between the two families. After they grow up they meet again and try to regain the recipe to make a new family restaurant work.
In a Zimbabwean township facing the drying up of the river, three children witness the arrival of a strange visitor who claims to come from the future. Loveness, a brave little albino girl, seizes the opportunity and saves the goddess of water, trapped in the knot of time.
The drama follows a promising young architect as he tries to balance his personal life with the burdens of his career.
Seven months after their divorce, Ducu pays Maria one last visit...
Ana, a city girl, raised in comfort, has managed to upset her father. In order to learn some humility and appreciate life in its simplicity, Ana is "exiled" to the countryside, to live with her grandmother for a while. For Ana, life in the village is a nightmare: heels sink into the mud, internet not so much, and people are strange.
To save their flocks from the heat and the sun, the shepherds of a Soviet cooperative farm decide to take them to a fertile but remote place. A journalist and the beautiful daughter of one of them accompany them in their long journey. Folklore melodrama praising the truth and the beauty inherently tied to nature and folk rituals.
A night. Dozens of stories. A city. Lică, a taxi driver, is an all knowing guy, while Liviu, his friend, also a taxi driver keeps a lot to himself. They are completely different and their ideas about life and people only meet when they are eating and drinking at the bar. They are frustrated with their jobs. For Lică money is the most important thing, while Liviu thinks that a happy and fulfilling life represents more. They are trying to rediscover who they are and what they can do with their life, all while being on an on going adventure on the streets of Bucharest where they cross paths with all kinds of clients who end up having an impact on their lives, for better and also for worse.
The fascinating portrait of Ion Bârlàdeanu. The touching and inspiring story of a man who literally lived in the gutter for 20 years - and in the meantime managed to create paintings and collages which are now exhibited alongside works by Andy Warhol or Marcel Duchamp.
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.
The film brings back to the screen another page of the underground youth struggle against the fascist occupiers of Moldova — the Romanian Cigurans.