Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted by the communist regime, is considered holy by many believers, although he has yet to be canonized.
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.
After a long period of not talking to each other, Ana, freshly out of med-school, reunites with her mother by the seaside, to rekindle the relationship. In the pursuit of retrieving some of her very early memories, she begins to understand and fill in some gaps from her upbringing. The trip along this memory lane will unfold things left unsaid for too long. A story about family ties, love and miscommunication.
An alien stuck on Earth because of the pandemic sends a report to the base of her home planet, through which she shares thoughts on people, dreams and trees.
Bucharest, October 1989: a secondary school student disappears without a trace. Weeks later, he resurfaces at a meeting of the Communist Youth where he is denounced for certain "reprehensible actions" and excluded from the organization. As a result of the same "reprehensible" deeds he is expelled from the school. His schoolmates are never told what his actions actually were. "Notorious deeds, unworthy of being mentioned," is the only comment provided by a high-level communist party representative. Now, 25 years later, those involved are keen to tell their side of the story.
The decision to change his name to a typical Romanian one, was extremely difficult and painful for Mohamed. Will Mohamed do what he so badly strives for and at the same time is afraid of? Will his father perceive this decision seriously?
An experiment with a device that tries to reconstruct memory fragments. Three characters who try to find a way so important memories won't disappear. A childhood memory, in which there was a storm outside and some stories were recorded on a phone.
Kalo, a 24-year-old man roams Italy selling fake iPhones and Samsung phones on street corners to other neighborhood boys, generally immigrants. Amalia, a young mother fights for the life of her newborn daughter Riana, in a hospital in Bucharest. She hopes that her daughter will be sent as soon as possible to Milan, where Riana can have heart surgery to survive. In Everything for Riana we find out how everything will end for the young family.
Shot in Romania, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar, the documentary follows the story of Alexandra, who decides to marry Daniel, a young man converted to Islam.
A filmmaker starts following the story of a man who is fighting a lone, harrowing battle against a Kafkaesque system that refuses to recognize he is alive. As her camera rolls and days turn into weeks, she becomes dangerously enmeshed in his journey. But the story behind the story is much darker and sadder than she could have imagined.
Irina and Cata are moving in together for the first time. This big step sparks a heated debate on Irina's unwillingness to expose their relationship to her parents and to the rest of the world. She is trying her best to make her girlfriend happy.
Two brothers who live in different countries after their parents' divorce reunite on the occasion of their annual trip to the mountains. Everyone's vacation and plans change radically when the children disappear on a clandestine expedition to a mountain refuge, causing panic...
The documentary follows and underground benevolent network of people who are buying chemotherapy drugs abroad and transporting them to Romanian patients, since in Romania chemotherapy drugs are not available.
Stefan, the only surgeon available, takes on one final patient after working a 31-hour shift. In what should have been a simple procedure the 8-year old boy dies on the table. In this powerful short, the corrupt Romanian health care system is put under close scrutiny upon the backdrop of sorrow, payoffs and threats.
An old aviator fights to stay in the air. Whether he wins or not, his participation will mark a new record for aviation and will allow one more armistice in his battle with time.
The film tells the story of one of the oldest circus families in Romania, descendants of the Globus Circus founder, Toma Zdebschi. Mina and Carol have been married for 55 years. They were both circus artists. Mina is 75 and Carol is 84.
The new goalkeeper on a youth soccer team faces bullying and hostility from nearly all of his teammates. Only one of the boys, Robert, is nice to him, and they become friends. As the two grow closer, however, unassuming Robert turns out to be guarding a bloody secret.
Zoe finally met someone (Duncan) that she really cares about enough to introduce to her friends. Everybody seems to be excited for her and they’re trying their best to make Duncan feel at home, but Zoe has a secret. Her mood transforms the evening into the perfect opportunity for scandal and all the characters will get the chance to express how they really feel
Poet, musician, intellectual, and committed communist Nina Cassian wrestled for decades with the central contradiction of her life: how to reconcile her artistic ideals with the strict censorship imposed by Romania’s Communist Party — a tension that put her at odds with the totalitarian Ceaușescu regime and eventually led to her exile. Interweaving archival footage with firsthand interviews, this thought-provoking documentary illuminates the complex relationships between art, politics, and personal truths.
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