Misha, a 17-year-old boy, spent the last three years of his life in Goian, the only penitentiary for minors from Moldova. On the last day of his conviction, he gathers some of the things he can take „home”. His plans for life after-prison look promising. Misha intends to find a job, to start a family and to recover what he missed from his relationship with his parents and two younger brothers.
Shot in various romanian traditional villages on Prahova Valley, the film explores the simple life of isolated villagers of all ages, throughout all four seasons.
Blurring the line between memory and imagination, the film tells the story of a girl and her father, who have embarked on a wintery voyage. As the girl loses her sight, she reminisces about a strange encounter with a baby flamingo, while her father questions her experience.
Pin-Pin is a circus artist penguin who goes around the world to find partners for a new show. After countless adventures, Pin-Pin returns home, to the circus, with his long-dreamed partners.
Shot in a cinéma verité style, a group of students make a film in Botosani penitentiary. They start to follow Gheorghita, a worker from the kitchen. He is working hard to gain the trust of the guards and to blend in with his fellow inmates. As the students get closer to him, they realise how the environment ends up shaping the identity of the individual.
The film tells the story of Nicoleta Giurcanu, who was arrested at only 14 years old, along with her father and brother, while protesting for freedom and democracy during the 1989 revolution. Later, Nicoleta was taken to the police station, then in the most feared prison in Romania and even in a torture chamber. 33 years later, Nicoleta is a Civic Education teacher, fights for the truth and teaches young people what true freedom is.
In search of engineer Dragomirescu, is a documentary film directed by Dragoș Zamosteanu, which brings to the attention of the public the tragic destiny of Gheorghe Dragomirescu, an exceptional engineer, the father of six children, denounced for singing, on January 1, 1959, at the anniversary to a friend, "Deșteaptă-te, române!" and "Vântuleț de primăvară"
"Remember Iuliu Maniu-1986" is a documentary film produced by the "Iuliu Maniu" Memorial House in Bădăcin. The film talks about the courage of a group of young people to commemorate Iuliu Maniu, 33 years after his death.
His story, everyone story.
After a long life of hard work, 94-year-old Maria outsmarts a priest in her Romanian village.
In a not so distant time females run the world and one day, they stumble upon a couple of artists.
This is a Kitsch manifesto celebrating clichés, pop culture, eroticism & fetishes. Kitsch has become a typical product for modernity and consumerism but also a way to escape from everyday reality. NEO-KITSCH explores the theme of artificiality, sexuality and the race for the perfect body promoted by social media, press and fashion. NEO-KITSCH is investigating the body, the gender stereotypes and the theme of masculinity-femininity.
Gogulic is an unemployed man chased by bad luck who has some adventures in the industrial periphery of Bucharest. Burlesque comedy
This video essay deepens loneliness, poverty and depression by developing the tragic story of a boy from the Jiu Valley who commits suicide because of his mother’s absence.
A visit to a Romanian disco where the rhythms of songs like Iko Iko and Invisible Sun interweave with. The edited footage from dance floors, concert halls, and stages is a multi-channel remix of the original recorded material with the filmmaker’s edited appropriated documentary footage.
This celebratory ode to the life of the potato explores the structures and shapes of the root vegetable with a monumental orchestral accompaniment and the help of a dynamic camera. Dazzling rays of sunlight penetrate the wicker incubator and illuminate in backlight the impressive tangle of roots and wrinkled skin of the agricultural crop.
