31-year-old Vera is a vet in a small-town zoo veterinarian in Transylvania. After losing her new-born baby, she becomes obsessed with giving him the proper Eastern Orthodox burial rituals, spends more time at work and subsequently drifts apart from her husband, Toma. One day a tiger escapes from the zoo…
The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landscape of the Danube Delta.
After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets.
Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.
After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube"
This is Emil’s story, the man who doesn’t believe in ghosts, and his best friend, Titi. The plot unfolds in a remote hamlet, a place looking like a slice of heaven. However, the story begins at the 40-day memorial service for Smaranda, the late wife of Emil. Days pass by, and Emil realizes that Titi looks like his days are numbered. He wants to brighten him up, but nothing helps. That’s because 40 days after her death, Smaranda moves into Titi’s house and starts haunting him.
An ordinary day in Romania. Under a highway exit close to Bucharest, Lidia and Denisa are changing their clothes; warm pullovers and sneakers are exchanged for tight tops and heels. The two are then waiting for clients, an icy wind gusting around their ears.
Two souls walk abreast along the road that links a grandmother's birthday with a grandfather's grave. Down the narrow road that forces them to interact, a change takes place as the mother-daughter relationship morphs into a rocky new mother-son tie.
In May 2013, a house was to be demolished. A few artists were called for proposals in what was to become a one-off during a day and a night exhibition about loss and disappearance.
Two quarreling youngsters get into one cab at night without knowing that the driver is madly desperate to re-conquer his ex-girlfriend and willing to do anything to have her back; including a car crash.
A group of teenagers try ecstasy for the first time, but their lack of experience with the drug turns everything into a chain reaction of horrible trips.
A young snail grapples with the world's bewildering chaos and the enigma of their own body. Thrust into a quest for personal discovery, they must unlock the truth about their sexual identity through a bizarre and unexpected confrontation with their other half.
Nothing about Love tells the story of two women and two men, involved in an emotional cataclysm. The movie tries to capture and analyze those delicate moments of our lives when we perceive love as being a disease of the soul.
32 year old female boxer Steluta Duta tries to buy her own home by winning boxing match after boxing match only to find her life is a continuous loop. As she trains for her European Boxing Cup, Stela revisits the past dramas of being an abandoned, institutionalized child.
Rebeca, Iulia and Florin, a film crew with not much experience, decide to shoot a documentary about the mysterious Toni Oniga. They have heard about him from many friends and are very interested in meeting him. But he turns out to be very hard to find. The filmmakers get the impression that people don’t want to say where Toni Oniga is. They have only good things to say about him, that he was like salvation to them, but never go into any details. Things get more and more confusing. Is it possible that Tony Oniga is an urban legend and never really existed?
In a year without concerts, 40 musicians found a vital breath of inspiration on a secluded beach near the sea. Creative Camp turned out to be a revelatory experience whose effects are still being felt today.
Invited by the goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden (Germany), Radu Jude created a self-portrait. A confinement diary made of his thoughts, his relationship to cinema, his inspirations or the streets, objects and people that surround him.