פאָלקס פון Romania

A boy and a girl have an unspoken dialogue made out of pieces of archetipal memories.

In 1917 a village which lies directly on the front line at Marasesti is evacuated. One of the few who decide to stay is an old man together with his 12 year old granddaughter named Mariuca. The girl befriends a Romanian radio operator who had set up an artillery observation post in their yard.

A rural experiment filmed with an 8mm camera captures the Transylvanian landscape around the town of Beius. Blurred lines, warm colors, depth of space, and soothing scenes: the impression of an oil painting is disturbed by the agitated camera movements, vertical swoops, image inversions, and overlaying of shots.

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.

Director Roxana Baloiu's personal reflection on the loss of her grand-mother's mind to Alzheimer's. A deeply personal tale of longing, loss and regret. A love letter from a grand-daughter to a grand-mother.

A documentary about love, dance and music, freedom and prison.

From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceausescu's heatless winters, this film explores the universe of a Romanian apartment building. It follows the story of the ambitious block's administrator.

An animated fairy tale movie about the funny adventures of a bear cub who went to congratulate his uncle and present him with a cake.

A road trip full of remorse, doubt and darkness. Starring Marina Voica, a Romanian pop singer.

Estera is twenty now, so she must get married, her small-town family thinks. Estera obliges, but there is a trace of doubt on her face. Does she really want to marry? Does she even love this man? The film delves into Estera's doubts and worry as she's preparing for the 'best day of her life'.

The story of the old Russians began in the XVI century, when the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, supported by the Czar, imposed religious reforms in Russia. Those who have refused to obey were brutally persecuted and forced to seek refuge in Siberia or in faraway places. Many hidden in Europe, and some of them settled down in China, Japan, America and Australia. The Russian Old Believers Community that settled down in Romania is one of the most numerous. The film explores the extraordinary power of this community to preserve their language, customs and religion, finding in their faith in God the source of strength to resist. This film tries to render the patriarchal air of the medieval Russia, from which these people came.

After a staged senators' son death the drug operation behind them begins to unravel.

Sibiu is a city at the heart of Transylvania. This film tells the (short) story of the place from the moment it was born 825 years ago up to our present days. The storyline winds among centuries spotlighting troubled and perilous moments when the very existence of the city was under threat, as well as through happier times of prosperity that show a thriving city commanding a dominant position as Transylvania's prominent and respected commercial, military, administrative and cultural centre.

Ionaș lives in an isolated village in Maramureș, from where the road leads only into the forest. Every year, from July until the beginning of October, Ionaș spends his nights guarding, on his own, his cornfield of wild boars that threatens to eat his agony.

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.

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.