Blue Planet

Blue Planet 1970

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Five simple people past their first youth have the band "Dio Family". Two taxi drivers, a painter, a baker and a nurse try to get out of the monotony of everyday life through their passion for music. Lack of money, free time, fatigue, failures are at every step, but nothing stops them, because they feel that if they give up they will lose this last bet to find their happiness.

1970

The Digital Analysis of Images

The Digital Analysis of Images 1986

1

" The Department of Applied Electronics at Bucharest's Polytechnic Institute created and tested a computer-based image-processing installation. The ways in which the discoveries could be used are presented. "

1986

Fragmentations

Fragmentations 1970

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived happily with her parents and her younger sister. But the little girl lived in Romania and her parents really wanted a house for them, so they went to work in Spain. The little girl stayed with her sister in the care of her grandmother and so the years passed, until one day the little sister told her that their parents were going to return. So the little girl began to hope.

1970

Gestures of Resistance

Gestures of Resistance 2019

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Gestures of Resistance connects the personal testimonies of some of the last survivors of the Holocaust from Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia through their presentations of antifascist resistance - chapter 1: Armed Resistance, chapter 2: Civil/Political Resistance, chapter 3: Resistance through Art, chapter 4: Resistance through Solidarity.

2019

Life is a Bitch

Life is a Bitch 1970

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"Life is a Bitch" is a sci-fi video-novel which finds its set in a possible future where the Left has the opportunity to build its project on Europa, moon of planet Jupiter. The short film follows the struggle of a left-minded couple which couldn’t afford the flight to the “Socialist Moon”.

1970

In the Light of Memory

In the Light of Memory 2010

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The film explores sites and practices of memory in post-socialist Bucharest, twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. It was shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest public parks in Bucharest. This central, urban space attracts people from all walks of life. It is a place for social interaction, solitary reflection, reverie, and memory. Interweaving recollections of the past with present-day scenes from the park, the film presents a montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people.

2010

Memory Objects, Memory Dialogues

Memory Objects, Memory Dialogues 2011

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A split-screen animated film that explores the complex nature of memory in contemporary post-communist Romania. Using a collection of everyday, household objects as windows into the past, it features 16mm stop-motion animations of these artifacts, projected alongside selections of interviews from the ethnographic research with the objects’ owners.

2011

Resurrection of Mr. Constantin

Resurrection of Mr. Constantin 2019

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Self-exiled in Turkey since 1999 and recently expelled, Mr. Constantin discovers that he had been declared dead by the Romanian authorities, at the request of his wife.

2019

Together, body and soul

Together, body and soul 2023

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Madame S. is about to give her daughter in marriage to Dr. Gluand, a rich old doctor. What she does not know is that Madelene is in love with the doctor's protégé, Marcel. The two begin a clandestine affair, but the doctor discovers their secret and, seeking revenge, decides to unite the two lovers... body and soul.

2023

Documentary about...

Documentary about... 1981

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A handful of young documentary filmmakers have to make a report on a lathe machine enterprise. Only that Documentary About… is also a playful, almost cheeky film about its own making.

1981

Family Snapshots

Family Snapshots 1983

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Time passes by quickly for a young, small family: soon it will no longer be that small, the children grow up, the parents get older, and this reality in constant motion, erased and diffused, sometimes stops itself in front of the camera.

1983

Ecce H...omulețul

Ecce H...omulețul 1970

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Bogdan Mihailescu creates a short animation about the famous Gopo`s little man.

1970

Fructul interzis

Fructul interzis 1970

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What if as a result of the Original Sin, God didn't cast out both Adam and Eve from Paradise? What if the actual punishment were more sinister than that? If you had to wait an entire life just to see your lover, could you endure it?

1970

People Are Not Goats

People Are Not Goats 1971

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In an unusual spaghetti western setting, a man - played by Ilarion Ciobanu - returns to his home village after spending time at the front. He finds his wife in the company of another man - played by Anușavan Salamanian - who is also raising his son. The confrontation between the two is at its most intense when they exchange glances that, in Ciobanu's case, seem to be a textbook study in Clint Eastwood's taciturn protagonist from Sergio Leone's famous trilogy. In many ways, People Aren't Goats stands out among all the other student films of the period. But the point where it proves most particular is its belonging to a genre - spaghetti western - at that time still new worldwide, whose national exponent will remain Ilarion Ciobanu, through the roles he played in the singular western trilogy, released a few years later, in which the people of the Ardennes go through all sorts of adventures.

1971