It's no surprise that no one ever celebrated Mrs. Buica - her worldly accomplishments were raising a family and surviving a bad marriage. But she did play the hand she was dealt with brutal honesty and fierce humor. We watch her grapple with 24 years of family dysfunction in both Romania and The United States - by the end, we can't help but celebrate the life of Mrs. Buica
The last part of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Șaptecai and episode 6 of the Outlaws series. In the Week of Fools, Anghel's band exchanges Lady Ralu's dowry for arms for Tudor of Vladimiri's army, which they decide to join. Although captured by Mamoulos and savagely tortured by his men, Șaptecai escapes from the dungeon and goes on his way. With the help of Anița, the Răspopitul, Parpanghel and other fellow outlaws, Anghel finally sees his dream come true.
The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.
A film composed entirely of archival photographs and documents related to the Iași Pogrom of June 1941. The first part of the film consists of photographs of the victims, accompanied by statements and testimonies about their fate. The second part, shorter, is a montage of photos of the pogrom itself.
Vlad, a museographer's son, meets a living Alexandru Cuza in a gallery of Romanian heroes. Together they visit historical figures like Saint Andrew and Vlad the Impaler at pivotal moments in their lives.
Voivode Michael the Brave travels through time, together with his wife, discovering, deeply touched, the new world.
A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.
After a group of teenagers winds up in a camp free of technology, they quickly discover mysterious occurrences at the facility.
An intimate and vital account of love and friendship within a group of youngsters. They live in a complex, contradictory, and isolated world – the self-proclaimed state of Transnistra, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle. Tanya plans to move abroad, however future seems to offer frighteningly limited possibilities for her lovestruck friends.
The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1.
The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.
A married man has an affair with a much younger colleague. The two decide to celebrate her anniversary on a secluded island in the Danube Delta. From the moment they arrive, everything goes from bad to worse, without any logical explanation. After discovering that the only person who could take them back home is dead, the desperation to escape the island becomes uncontrollable, leading them to do unimaginable things to each other. Only one of them will leave the island in the end, answering the question that has haunted them since their arrival: Who else has been with them on the island all this time?
Hawaii is a story on the struggle of inheriting $3 million in communist-era Romania when owning $1 could mean losing your freedom and touches on the theme of how money could buy if not happiness, at least the freedom to choose unhappiness.
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.
A 14-year-old girl auditions for a film role as an abused sex worker, and the director tries to convince her mother of the artistic rationale behind the provocative part.
In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
Young Ela, trapped by the pandemic lock-down, peers out her window, unveiling the hidden lives of her neighbours – especially that of a mysterious boy. As a silent crisis unfolds, Ela's imagination becomes her secret weapon and when he needs help, she tries to reach him despite the distance.
Fall of 1944. World War 2 is closing to an end. Nicu, a teenager, embarks on a journey through the wilderness of the Apuseni Mountains, trying to save the horses of his family.
A Romanian drama‑comedy that follows a group of ordinary people whose lives become unexpectedly interconnected after a small event sets off a chain reaction of coincidences. Set in a modern Romanian town, the film blends humor and emotion as it explores how chance, timing, and minor decisions shape the characters’ futures. Each storyline reveals a different idea of what it means to be lucky: • escaping trouble, • finding love, • getting a second chance, • or simply learning to appreciate what you already have. As the characters’ paths cross in unexpected ways, the film highlights how fortune can appear in disguise — sometimes arriving as chaos, sometimes as opportunity. Ultimately, movie offers a warm, human portrait of everyday people discovering meaning in life’s unpredictable moments.
