Matei Vişniec is considered to be the most important contemporary Romanian playwright. His plays are translated into more than 20 languages and are played in over 50 countries. At the invitation of the writer, a TVR Iasi team, made up of journalist Andreea Ştiliuc and cameraman Relu Tabără, was this documentary filmed in July in France.
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.
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.
Nicolae is a 9-year-old boy. He is a pupil at the Russian language school in Soroca. He really likes to go to school. He looks forward to going to the "last day of school" to find out if he is going to be accepted into the third grade. He knows all the streets of Soroca, because, together with his brother, Gena, they wander all day. Soroca - is a small town in the north of the Republic of Moldova. It is known thanks to the medieval fortress, the oldest on the territory of the country, but also thanks to the Roma community, that lives compactly in a neighborhood on a hill from Soroca. The Roma are eccentric here. They built big houses, some of them being replicas of known buildings in the world. Hence the name of the movie The Bolshoi Theatre, referring to the well-known building in Moscow, but also to the theatrical nature of the Roma people.
On Saint Andrew's day, Safta leaves the comfort of her home to find the veterinary doctor who could help her save the family cow. Safta's plans change when a bizarre encounter forces her to face her past.
Turica and her relatives wander from village to village, carrying handmade brooms and baskets, which they try to trade for food. The filmmaker goes beyond stereotypes, following an extremely poor Roma family on their survival winter trips, and for a whole year. They belong to the “Baiesi” group of Roma, who live in extreme poverty.
Animation short.
Living in Danube Delta Magdalena receives a letter from France. Together with her son, Nae, she embarks on a journey to encounter her brother.
A romantically embellished biopic of Ecaterina Teodoroiu, a Romanian woman who fought and died in World War I.
For three days in June 1990, the famed Paris attic of Emil Cioran (1911-1995) was transformed into a film studio under the supervision of filmmaker Sorin Ilieşiu, creating an engrossing portrait of the philosopher and essayist.
Ani and Sanda are two girls from Maramuresh who grew up with their grandparents. Their parents are working in Spain, like so many other Romanians. When they left, their common project looked promising: with the money earned in Spain they shall build a house in which the whole family will be happy. After more than 10 years, things haven’t turned out as planned, and the big house is far from being finished. Laura Căpățână-Juller accompanied Ani and Sanda for three years, following with a tender and talented eye the struggles of these two girls turned into teenagers while their parents were away.
In the process of reconstructing the memory of her mother, a young woman relives the emotional ravine between them, originating in childhood.
A young, underestimated team unexpectedly transforms into an unstoppable force, staying undefeated for months and fighting for promotion until the final whistle.
A man wakes up and begins his morning routine while the radio plays the day’s news.
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.
A documentary which aims to dig deeper into the origins and meanings of traditional Moldovan ornaments.
A father and his children are preparing for the New Year. The eldest daughter is almost 30 years old and is used to playing the role of mother to the others, sacrificing her education to raise them, after the death of her real daughter. The second daughter is in high school and has difficulties in physics, for this reason she is punished to stay at home and solve problems in this subject. Of the two boys, one is the pride of the father, being the first and only student in the family. In a cordial atmosphere, punctuated from time to time by surprising musical fragments, the story develops around daily events. But the very next day, the appearance of a young woman who is important to the eldest son inspires the father to reconsider the sometimes too authoritarian relationship he has cultivated with his children.
