1h 59min
Part of the Dumitru Carabăț Retrospective, Constantin Vaeni’s debut in feature film is a ritual of confinement. A film yearning for cinematic expressivity and precise psychological explorations.
1h 30min
Director Cristiana Nicolae presents a sensitive coming-of-age story in which Anca (Alexandra Duca), who has always been a bit of an outsider, tries to find her place in a world that is too rigid for her way of being.
1h 16min
The film follows the efforts of Chiriţa, who has just returned from Paris, to “Frenchify” her entire family and climb the social ladder at any cost: her husband, a steward in Iaşi, and her daughters — Aristiţa and Calipsiţa
1h 22min
New Year’s Eve in an isolated cabin in the mountains. Outside – a blizzard. Inside – two criminals and a night that quickly spirals out of control. Mircea Albulescu and Florin Zamfirescu star in a thriller written by Horia Pătrașcu, screenwriter of “The Reenactment”.
1h 31min
Ina (Marioara Sterian), a 19-year-old girl accused of “immoral behavior,” is sent to a construction site for “re-education”, where she befriends two older women, learns to integrate into a community, and finds her own way.
1h 37min
In a complex social context, the film explores the dilemmas and inner struggles of Alexandra (Violeta Andrei), the wife of a second lieutenant who has gone to the front, highlighting social and personal issues that test her courage and resilience.
1h 32min
The couple Romeo and Juliet are going through a crisis. The great-grandmother brings about reconciliation through her stratagems. A marital crisis resolved by the technique of… baba ex machina!
1h 39min
The film is based on the real visit to Iași by Curzio Malaparte, an Italian journalist and writer, who describes in his novel “Kaputt” his stay in this city, one day after the pogrom suffered by the Jewish population.
1h 22min
Presumably, the convoluted and pleonastic formula was intended to encompass the Mioritic “laughing through tears” and Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.”
1h 38min
Biographical film dedicated to the pioneer of world aviation Aurel Vlaicu, based on a screenplay written by Eugenia Busuioceanu, written and published in 1969 by the Military Publishing House.
1h 50min
“Taking such a basic idea to such heights is an achievement that many Hollywood screenwriters would envy!” (Variety)
1h 26min
One of the most successful Romanian comedy films, adapted from the plays of Vasile Alecsandri—in particular, the vaudeville “Chirița în provinție” (Chirița in the Province), starring Draga Olteanu Matei in the lead role.
1h 30min
A night in the life of a 24-hour store located in a neighborhood of apartment buildings. Four people lead four different stories connected by a key character, Achim. The film is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
1h 34min
The murder of two workers and a high school student triggers a series of investigations, the conclusions of which are eagerly awaited. After several attempts, a sergeant manages to catch the killer.
1h 25min
Corneliu Porumboiu’s third film, after Was 2:08 East Of Bucharest and Police, Adjective, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, is a hyper-subtle anti-romance.” (Andrei Gorzo)
1h 37min
Tatos’ second film: a wandering between the mirage of Western freedom and the shadows of an exile that seems to have been filmed by Godard and dreamed by Fellini, with Ioana Pavelescu in the role of the female lead à la Antonioni.
1h 33min
A strange phenomenon is taking place in the village of Viişoara: the men have disappeared! Unable to bear the “tyranny” of Varvara, who runs the agricultural cooperative, they preferred to get jobs in a factory, but things aren’t going according to plan there either…
1h 20min
We are now fifteen years later in the fictional village that we already know quite well. And, indeed, Viișoara has not changed that much over the years: the shepherd is the same lonely character, Varvara is the same energetic woman caught up in complicated administrative tasks
1h 28min
Mariana (Rodica Lazăr) is a desperate mother fighting for her sick daughter Carmen (Iulia Lupașcu). The only person who encourages her is Dr. Sitaru (Adrian Titieni), who proposes a risky operation.
1h 23min
Mihu and Filimon, two friends, are in love with the same girl, Carolina. Their rivalry takes the form of a bet. The girl knows that she is the one who must choose, and she hesitates to do so because she loves them both for purely emotional reasons.
1h 19min
After a marriage and a turbulent divorce, Silvia and Radu each go their separate ways, losing all contact with one another. Since she couldn’t get a job in Bucharest, Silvia decides to take the position assigned to her in Bolintin, as an agricultural engineer.
1h 30min
The first film in the “Freshmen” series, starring Maria Ploae, Emil Hossu, and Dumitru Furdui as college graduates who, in keeping with the custom of the time, are assigned to the village of Viișoara, which they have no idea where to find on the map.
1h 26min
Captivated by the charms of singer Anabelle, Traian Brad (Ilarion Ciobanu) wants to marry her, unaware that she is actually helping her accomplice rob a bank.
1h 26min
When a flood hits a village in Romania, Costache and his wife, Maria, see all their possessions swept away by the waters. After the tragedy, the two retreat to a shelter in the village, Costache refusing to sell his land to move elsewhere.
1h 30min
A police officer (Dragoș Bucur) refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
1h 27min
An aspiring filmmaker (played by the director himself) goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film.
1h 38min
A successful young musician, Ana (Anca Florea) discovers that she has become the object of affection of a stranger who, from a distance, fulfills her most varied desires.
1h 30min
Seven teenagers set off on a scientific expedition to Peştera Neagră (Black Cave) during their summer vacation. For safety reasons, they divide into two groups: one inside the cave and one outside on the mountain.
1h 30min
Adapted from Cezar Petrescu’s novel of the same name, “Gathering Clouds” is a war drama directed by Alexandru Tatos (director of “Sequences“) in a difficult period for Romania.
2h 20min
Summer 1913, in a village near Buzău. Ionică, the teacher’s son, witnesses the hard life of the poor villagers. War is approaching and his landless neighbors have to work 16 hours a day at the oil wells for miserable wages.
2h 32min
The film “No Trespassing” depicts the events of August 23, 1944, and the Battle of Păuliș. Students at a military high school must defend the country’s northwestern borders.
1h 35min
Fresh out of a military hospital where he had been treated for injuries inflicted by a subordinate, Second Lieutenant Roșu, a harsh but fair man, returns to command the anti-aircraft artillery battery he led.
1h 40min
Far from being part of the dusty archive of once-fashionable works, “Waves of the Danube” is firmly placed in a timeless autonomy reserved only for masterpieces.
1h 23min
A Girl’s Tears is a Romanian drama film directed by Iosif Demian in 1980. It was screened at Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard section, in 1982. It tells the story of a crime that changed the lives of the inhabitants of a Transylvanian village.
2h 12min
„Rainbow Bubbles” (1982) is the second feature film directed by Iosif Demian, after a script written by Vintilă Ornaru and Fănuș Neagu. The film was censored in many sessions by the communist party and after that, was lost somewhere in the old studios. Later, it was miraculously found and remastered.
1h 30min
The film “Bear Eye”, signed by Stere Gulea, based on the eponymous novel by Mihail Sadoveanu. The main roles were played by the actors Dragoș Pâslaru, Sofia Vicoveanca, Daniela Vlădescu, Iosif Stoian, Dorina Lazăr și Maria Pătrașcu.
1h 40min
“A serious comedy, no discordant notes, with a remarkable concern to restore the atmosphere of the era”, says Cristina Corciovescu about the film inspired from the short story by the same name, written by Ioan Groșan.
1h 45min
Follows the inner transformation of a man who tried to fight his demon, the love for money, and lost.
2h 34min
In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
1h 2min
A hybrid between a documentary and a “poetic” essay, this commissioned film of the present leaves a paradoxical impression of an outdated family album.
1h 34min
The film “I am an Old Communist Hag”, signed by Stere Gulea, is based on the novel written by Dan Lungu, in 2007. The main roles were played by the actors Luminița Gheorghiu, Marian Râlea and Ana Ularu.
1h 1min
A young unemployed man accidentally becomes the possessor of a briefcase containing an atomic bomb. The gangsters who stole the bomb and lost it now want to retrieve it.
1h 40min
The story of reconstructing a simple incident, a fight between two young men, undertaken by the police, turns into a crime.
1h 6min
Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair; what he does not know is that her lover is Chiriac.
1h 59min
A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon’s lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza’s lover, while she is Cracanel’s lover.
3h 23min
At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
3h 23min
At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
1h 35min
Ryna is a tomboyish teenager who dreams of leaving the small, isolated community in the Delta where she lives. However, escape comes at a price.
1h 38min
Three episodes (“The Phone,” “Prospecting,” “Four Palms”) from the life of a film crew that is in production with the movie “Happiness.”
1h 37min
In 1970s Romania a rebellious and erratic teenager is vying for his older step brother’s love and attention while envying his fame and lifestyle.
1h 34min
Two weeks before his release, a teenage prisoner learns that his mother has returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a student working in the penitentiary as an intern.
1h 30min
With little time to live, Carturan, a 60 year old man, tries to fix the most important aspects of his life.
1h 51min
Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant; Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
1h 17min
A teenager embarks on a journey into the world of death, crime, and love in the apartment building where they live.
1h 30min
Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
1h 25min
A young woman, who struggles to receive a higher education and escape her dysfunctional family. An ambiguous sexual experience with an artist will spur her intention to fight the family’s violence.
1h 44min
First screened in Cannes, in Quinzaine de realisateurs, «E pericoloso sporgersi» is the debut film of an audience darling.
1h 22min
A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.
1h 20min
Radu, 45, rich and single, manages his business with a strong, unwavering hand and no scruples. His competition is now leading a charge against him on the stock market, which prompts Radu to remember a childhood game of beer bottle caps.
1h 28min
After a long absence, a man working in Italy returns home for a week to his wife and child, but far from being welcomed with open arms.
1h 35min
“The Graduates” is a Romanian movie from 1986, directed by Nicolae Corjos. It tells the love story of two freshmen (first-year high school students) who fall in love.
1h 35min
A love story between two high school students from different social backgrounds, Ioana and Alexandru, who stay together facing all prejudices and obstacles.
1h 35min
An incursion into an epoch deeply troubled, ravaged by war and suffering, yet against the backdrop of which had emerged the heralding lights of other times.
1h 25min
A group of young people from a textile factory have an artistic ensemble and want to put on a show. They will be the protagonists of several amusing mishaps until they establish their repertoire.
1h 43min
Sergiu Nicolaescu’s adaptation of Titus Popovici’s screenplay “After the Storm” presents the story of 13 knights of honor who, after the tragic disappearance of Mihai Viteazul, were forced to leave the country and wander far away until, as many as will have reached, they return home.
1h 40min
Two cases of theft, seemingly trivial, lead Captain Panait (Toma Caragiu), Sergeant Căpșună (Sebastian Papaiani), Sergeant Major Cristoloveanu (Dumitru Furdui), and the dog Costel on the trail of a real gang network.
1h 28min
The Dragon, the Most Dragonish (Mircea Diaconu), and the Emperor (Victor Rebengiuc) battle for control over the world using various schemes and cunning tactics.
1h 54min
In his first reign (1456 – 1462), Vlad the Impaler consolidates his power to defend the independence of the country, which is in a dual subordination: towards the Ottoman Porte and towards the kingdoms of Hungary.
1h 28min
A Romanian peasant, visiting a friend who is working at a hotel on the Black Sea Riviera, is mistaken for a look-alike rich American businessman.
1h 48min
Inspired by the bloody events of 1940, when the “Green Shirts” attempted to seize power, Petru Moldovan, an incorruptible commissioner, will investigate with cold-blooded determination and regardless of consequences, the crimes of the Legionnaire gang.
1h 51min
In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
1h 55min
“A group of the Pașoptist ‘Fraternity’ takes over a treasure belonging to Tudor from Vladimiri in order to exchange it for weapons in Brașov, in the fight against the Arnauts and their own temptations. Feared by many, Mărgelatu aids the resistance in the struggle against the state authorities.”
2h 16min
The action of the film takes place in the 1st century BC, during the reign of King Burebista, the leader of the first centralized Dacian state. Burebista is the only “barbarian” king whom the esteemed Roman emperor, Caesar, did not defeat. The Dacians are preparing for confrontation.
1h 30min
The story of a betrayed friendship, of a love that tragically ends, against the backdrop of the haiducs’ struggle against the Phanariot lordship towards the end of the 18th century.
1h 34min
Alongside Mereanu, Jianu conspires to overthrow the Phanariot regime. Saved from the gallows by Tincuță, who mocks him, and forgiven, as custom demands of the land and the people, Iancu cannot readapt to the boyar world and joins Tudor’s band.
1h 41min
The further adventures of Margelatu, a modern Robin Hood with the flair of a Spaghetti Western hero, who fights against the injustice of corrupted politicians ruling Romania in the 1800s.
1h 38min
The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby.
1h 29min
Three intellectuals in a moment of inner crisis, where moral values such as originality and boldness, freedom of creation, and non-conformism are overwhelmed by the assumed defeat and conformity.
1h 40min
The members of the Miscellaneous Brigade, Captain Panait, Sergeant Căpșună, Sergeant-Major Cristoloveanu, and the wolf-dog Costel, have to solve two cases: “Powders for Grandma” and “The Miracle-Working Icon.”
1h 35min
The Miscellaneous Brigade receives the mission to uncover the origin of counterfeit money. The heroes set up a trap to catch the criminals red-handed, but they manage to escape.
1h 25min
The main character, a young surgeon (passionate consumer of red apples), an excellent professional, inflexible in adhering to moral norms, is in a constant struggle with the indifference and ignorance of his peers, with their small-mindedness, with the obtuseness and careerism of the hospital director.
1h 34min
Ruxandra (Margareta Pîslaru), a young woman who failed her theater exam, uses her personal charm to prove that she can be an actress. Thus, she tries to get closer to several men: an advertising film director, an engineer randomly discovered in the phone book, and an assistant director.
2h 28min
A large family and it’s many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge.
1h 35min
Set in the 1910’s Transylvanian countryside, a poor but industrious peasant must choose between his obsessive lust for riches and his desire for true love.
1h 15min
Adapted from Mihail Sadoveanu’s 1926 novel. Lizuca is a 6 year old girl whose mother died and whose father is married to a nasty woman.
1h 12min
By adapting the stories compiled by Ion Creangă under the famous title ‘Memories from Childhood,’ Elisabeta Bostan brings to the screen the most wonderful pages of Romanian children’s literature.
1h 15min
Based on the novellas by Alexandru Sahia: ‘The Death of the Young Man with a Short Term‘, ‘The Father’s Return from War‘, and ‘On the Blood Plain of Mărășești,‘ this drama unfolds.
1h 30min
Veronica is a cute and lively little girl from an orphanage who receives as a gift from the Fairy of Fairies a wonderful bag, which can fulfill all her wishes, on the condition that she is well-behaved, generous, respectful, and friendly..
1h 36min
A movie that not only discusses the differences between classes in the communist regime, but mostly the anticipation of death and perish-ability of the human body.
1h 41min
As Andrei Blaier himself shares, the film is, among other things, a faithful screenization of The Decalogue; an ode to unseen humanity behind the wall of toughness in a hard-tried social system.
1h 45min
The emotional core of the movie is a heavy state that constantly weighs on the main characters; a state stemming from a deep sense of abandonment. The movie’s running time is long, charged with a deadly poetry.
2h 21min
Can we see in the rule and cruelty of Alexandru Lăpușneanu a sketch of Nicolae Ceaușescu? We are tempted to follow this line of interpretation when Lăpușneanu orders Moțoc: “let no bird enter Moldavia”, then adds, after a moment of silence, “and let no bird go out either”.
1h 40min
“Beyond the Sands” reveals an intense Balkan saga, with road-movie and coming-of-age overtones, in a local convention of outlaw movies. Revenge and disillusionment are constant themes throughout and dictate the film’s subsidiary force, set against a gray swampy landscape near Braila.
1h 30min
„Iancu Jianu, zapciul” (1982, r. Dinu Cocea) este prima parte din saga haiducului Jianu (Andrei Pintea), un personaj istoric transformat în erou de epopee cinematografică, prin prisma faptelor sale de răzvrătire și a spiritului său de justiție socială.
1h 24min
A man (Dem Rădulescu) walks into a bar and asks what happened to the rocket that’s burning in the TV pictures.What fuel does it have? Who was the teacher who built it?
1h 27min
“The Kidnapping of the Maidens” is not just a tour de force. Its creators understood that in addition to bang-bangs and horse trotters, viewers also look for people in the stories they see.
3h 0min
The movie places the action in the troubled moments of Romanian history that happily culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia. The main character is Iuliu Maniu, one of the greatest politicians in Romanian history.
1h 20min
”Stone Wedding” invites us to contemplate human beings in spaces of life and death — in short, to witness cinema in its purest form.
2h 0min
Tănase Scatiu is, in essence, the embodiment of the parasite who climbs the social hierarchy without any scruples.
1h 18min
Lucian Pintilie’s feature debut can be analyzed not only aesthetically or politically. The cinephile interested in the psychological analysis of the characters will find here significant resources about trauma and PTSD.
