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- DirectorRadu JudeStarsTeodor CorbanMihai ComanoiuToma CuzinSet in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
- DirectorTudor GiurgiuStarsEmilian OpreaMihai ConstantinAndreea VasileCristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.
- DirectorChema RodríguezStarsJuan DiegoClara VodaJavier PereiraNight Falls in India tells the story of Ricardo (Juan Diego) and Dana (Clara Voda). Ricardo decides to travel overland to India, as he used to do in the old days, when he brought hippies to the East with his van, crossing Europe, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. But the situation is very different now. Ricardo has been in a wheelchair for the last ten years, suffering from a degenerative disease now in its final stage. He wants to die on the banks of the Ganges River and meet Gadhali again. In this journey, he is accompanied by Dana, his Romanian housekeeper. Life owes something to these two lonely beings. The journey will become the alibi for paying it off. Night Falls in India is a shining road-movie full of life that uses journey as an excuse to tell a story about love and the passing of time, about the importance of the present and the need to recover lost time; a story in which the journey itself is as important as the arrival.
- DirectorRazvan GeorgescuStarsHeinz-Günther HüschHans-Dietrich GenscherKlaus KinkelA first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.
- DirectorSilviu PurcareteStarsAnne Marie CherticConstantin ChiriacPaul Chiributa"Somewhere in Palilula" tells the story of Serafim, a fresh graduate of a medical school, in 60's Romania. He is brought by destiny to the strange town of Palilula. Nowhere, that is. Palilula is a ghost town, lost in the middle of the Wallachia. A quarantine area, a sanatorium, an improbable hospital, a gynecological clinic in a settlement where no child is born. A small community of fools, lazies, sluts, vagabonds with angel's hearts is living under the sun in a sweet innocent unconsciousness. A community of Romanians who forgot their language, but not the nostalgia of their traditional music. Romanians with Danubian taste and disorientation. The young doctor Serafim will not get to practice his profession in this childless town. He will be drowning in the sweet and poisoned honey of the place, like a fly caught by a frog.
- DirectorTudor Cristian JurgiuStarsVictor RebengiucSerban PavluLaurentiu LazarWhen a flood strikes Costache's village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help and advice from his neighbors. The village is all he has left, except for an estranged son now living in Tokyo. But when his son Ticu hears of his mother's death and father's plight, he arrives unexpectedly with his Japanese wife and son to bring Costache back home with him. This will not be simple. Ticu fled Romania with many issues left unresolved, the biggest being his relationship with his father. Now there is a whole new family for Costache to deal with, old scores to settle, and painful goodbyes to say.
- DirectorCristian ComeagaStarsGabi BorcilaLaura CosoiEugeniu CozmaA former political police agent that has left communist Romania decades ago in search of freedom has to go back to find it.
- DirectorFlorin Piersic Jr.StarsFlorin Piersic Jr.Cristian GutauOlimpia MelinteTwo hit men wait for their next target in an empty apartment. The hours go by. Little by little, they start losing their patience and their temper. Pretty soon, they may even lose their lives. Killing time can be a deadly affair.
- DirectorPaul NegoescuStarsSimona BondocClara VodaAndrei RuncanuThe events of RENOVARE revolve around three personal stories: Besides her daily work, mother Doina tries to manage the renovation of the family's apartment. Her son Alex can hardly find any time for both the renovation and his girlfriend as the deadline for his Master's thesis comes close. His grandmother Flori insists to help the family although her support is not always welcome.
- DirectorCristina JacobStarsCrina SemciucFlavia HojdaOlimpia MelinteYasmine, Roxi and Ana run away to the seaside two days before their finals to have the time of their lives.
- DirectorHoratiu MalaeleStarsMeda Andreea VictorAlexandru PotoceanValentin TeodosiuIn a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
- DirectorCornel GheorghitaStarsAdriana TrandafirÁron DiményElena PopaLiving in Danube Delta Magdalena receives a letter from France. Together with her son, Nae, she embarks on a journey to encounter her brother.
- DirectorIulia RuginaStarsAnkah BelloDorian BogutaDragos BucurLove Building is a camp designed to mend broken relationships. 14 couples in the program have 7 days to re-design their love lives. But the 3 trainers meant to assist them have problems of their own and things gradually get out of hand.
- DirectorRadu MunteanStarsDragos BucurAnamaria MarincaMimi BranescuOn his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.
- DirectorCatalin ApostolStarsSerban IonescuValentin TeodosiuCristi OlesherIn a forgotten village with lazy people and corrupt leadership, Pacoste must suffer for a mistake made in his past. His only friend is a young boy who finds in him a father figure.
- DirectorMarius BarnaStarsVitalie BantasIon BarbuMarcel CobzariuUnder an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined the Secret Police in order just to take her back and provide the protection she needed. Struggling to preserve her humanity, she falls in love with a young platonic dreamer, a kind of rebel without cause, whom she initiate in literature and reinvents as a character capable to meet her own desires of freedom. BEYOND AMERICA is a love story and an action drama altogether, with archetypes of an aggressive, totalitarian society. The story fallows the pattern of a modern fairy tale based upon the classic myth of Pygmalion and Galathea with reversed roles. The year is 1957. In her last fairy tales book BEYOND AMERICA, the hauntingly beautiful dissident writer MILENA tells the story of a sailor who committed suicide, after he had been incriminated with intention of fleeing to America and was to be put in jail. The subversive volume is confiscated from bookstores by the Secret Police. Vicious colonel MARCUS charges Milena with trying to corrupt the readers' mind to commit suicide in order to escape the nightmare of the dictatorship. As a punishment, she is deprived of her writer status and ordered to work at a remote re-education camp. She either accepts to be a construction worker (a mason), or she is to be imprisoned for parasitism. To avoid the camp's misery and humiliation, Milena tries to get help from IAN, her former lover. Ian is a French language teacher and a school principal. She used to know him as a tough guy, crazy enough to hire her. But she doesn't know that after her leaving him two years ago, Ian has got some mysterious connections to Bureau nr. 1 of the regime (The Supreme Leader). On this basis, Ian defies the Secret Police's orders, and hires Milena "to reeducate" her as a literature teacher. In exchange, they resume their intimate relationship. Encouraged by her actors-friends, amidst whom the peculiar EDGAR stands out, Milena begins to clandestinely translate her book into English. Edgar promises her to smuggle it out to AUGUSTIN, the leader of the Romanian Exile in Paris. While teaching her students poems like "Have no hope, and have no fear", Milena has an eye for MANU - nicknamed Castle builder -, a young rebellious mason working at the Congress Center construction site neighboring the school. Here there is STAN, an womanizer supervisor, who is after Milena too. Manu is a fervent admirer of her books. His rough, genuine attitude catches Milena's interest. Although he obviously doesn't belong to Milena's milieu, he is in hopeless love with her; so he splits up with MARIA, his current girlfriend, and tries to capture Milena's attention by attempting a fake suicide, mirroring the suicide of the sailor in her book. As a consequence, Milena is arrested and charged with instigation to political sabotage, since the Congress Center construction site was being an important political site of the regime. In the Secret Police interrogation cell, colonel Marcus tries to force her to sign a paper stating that the sailor killed himself not because he couldn't flee to America, but because his girlfriend had been previously raped by other sailors - which Milena refuses. Knowing that a writer usually depicts his or her own secret desire in books, Marcus is wondering whether she wouldn't enjoy the same treatment in real life, so he attempts to rape her and take compromising pictures. She is saved at the very last moment by Ian's phone call. Ian wanted not only to save her, but to get rid of his dangerous younger rival too. So he has talked Manu into turning himself in and playing a madman, as this would exonerate her from any responsibility. Anxious to save Milena, Manu has agreed. Marcus suspects this set-up, but threatened by Ian's high unexplainable connections, release Milena and places Manu in an insane asylum. Impressed with Manu's ordeal, as she begins to fall for him, Milena figures out a way to have him released. She sends an anonymous report, on behalf of "angry workers", to the Supreme Leader, asking for those who hired a madman to be punished (because they had committed the true political sabotage) and threatening to call a strike if not satisfied. Out of the blue, Marcus is ordered to release Manu and declare him sane, since the regime would rather claim there is no madman worker than to punish its own Secret Police servants. Now Marcus hates Ian's gods, and decides to corner him in any way. He places him under permanent surveillance. After her new rescue by Ian, Milena has to surrender again to his protector's sexual fantasies. Tortured by an unknown feeling of culpability, Ian has meanwhile developed an alcohol problem. Unexpectedly released from asylum, Manu pops in and witnesses her sexual submission to Ian, strangely carried on a background screen displaying the Arch of Triumph image in Paris. He is devastated because he never had suspected Milena's intimate relationship with Ian. On top of this, he is now accused by his co-workers of being an informant, otherwise in their view he could not had been released. Devastated, Manu has a nervous breakdown and hurls himself into a freshly made wall, nearly killing himself, thus comitting a true political sabotage. More dead than alive, rejected by hospitals because of his so-called suicidal behavior, Manu is taken by his co-workers to Milena's home. Surrounded by books, Manu is immobilized in bed. She nurses him back to health in a cozy environment that seems this time to be their own only. The young construction worker proves to be not exactly a construction worker, since he had also been assigned at the construction site as a punishment for having written dishes recipes instead of praising the regime in a political-essay test in college. In order to get Milena out of this nightmare for good, and split her up with Manu once forever, Ian offers her a passport to flee the country to Paris, normally an impossible act under the dictatorship. As she is now in love with Manu, she refuses and splits up with Ian, enraging him out of jealousy. She continues to translate her book, to nurse Manu and initiate him in literature issues, forcing him with romantic gestures to read books. Answering his repetitive question (why did the sailor kill himself?), she encourages him to find out the answers to all riddles in the book only. She teaches him that all themes have already been written by masters like Shakespeare or Balzac, and writers ever since have only changed the characters. Thus, reversing the classic legend's roles of Pygmalion and Galathea, Milena brings Manu to a new life and forges him as the real character she wants and needs. Milena finishes the translation of her book. They dream of fleeing to the countryside and write books together. At this point, Maria drops in out of the blue to bring Manu news about his parents, imprisoned in a political camp. Although Manu rejects her, Maria tries to resume their romantic relationship. Suddenly Milena shows up, surprising them embraced. So she leaves Manu and goes back to Ian, accepting to flee the country. Ian, drunk, makes a terrible confession: he is actually an undercover intelligence agent - enrolment that he did for her. After her leaving him two years ago, he had joined the Secret Police forces, being aware that one day she would need his help. He had to be able to provide it, by thus managing to take her back. Milena is bewildered. But Ian's confession continues: he is now assigned to assassinate Augustin in Paris. Once in Paris, he won't accomplish his mission, instead he will defect and join Milena in freedom. Impressed with his sacrifice, Milena goes to an undisclosed address to wait for him to bring her a passport. Manu is looking for Milena everywhere. Apparently she vanished. He goes to Edgar and gives him the translation manuscript that Milena left home, hoping to find out where she could be. Edgar has no clue; instead he brings the manuscript to Marcus, because he is in fact a Secret Police collaborationist. Meanwhile, Marcus had decoded Ian's confession's record at his home. Thus Ian's treason is now exposed. As a consequence, Marcus unleashes Milena and Ian's haunting, as the traitor has now not only lost Bureau nr. 1' s protection, but was even ordered to be arrested and executed. Ian shoots down two agents that have come to arrest him and escapes. Following the sailor's footsteps in Beyond America, Manu ultimately finds Milena in the village on the seacoast where the sailor and his girlfriend in Milena's book used to meet. After their passionate encounter on the beach, they go back home. In the peasant house, there is Ian waiting for them. After Edgar's treason, he and Milena have to flee. He urges her to rush to catch a boat that is to leave in a few hours for Istanbul, but Marcus and a Secret Police platoon show up to arrest them. There is a shooting. Ian resists. He pushes Milena to flee through the back door. In the back yard, there is Stan pointing a gun at her. Milena succeeds escaping. Ian is shut and killed by the platoon agents. Hearing the shooting, Manu comes running. Stan shoots him down. Milena hides on the boat leaving for Istanbul, while Manu is thrown in a prison cell. Many years later, after the collapse of the communism, old Manu, now a writer, inspects his former cell. Over the Ocean, old Milena keeps coming everyday on the ferryboat linking Manhattan with the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. She keeps reading the same book: Beyond America, ferry tales by Manu. History had separated their lives forever.
- DirectorAdrian PopoviciStarsMarius BodochiGabriela ButucMarius ChivuThe decision taken by the hospitals council board of early releasing the neurotics and depressed, throw Mona 36 and Cathy 30 in the real world., a world which cannot offer them any place to live except a little house, without a roof , situated at the edge of the country , in the Danube Delta. Its Monas grandparents house, but both of them are dead. Their arrival triggers weird reactions on behalf of the villagers because they have big plans : to sell the village to a very rich man who own a football team and a political party who wants to turn the place into a luxurious resort. Could Mona and Cathy resist to the villagers reactions ? Could they find a place to live in this world ?
- DirectorGeorge DorobantuStarsCristi PetrescuIulia VerdesA boy and a girl, both teenagers, want to get away from the world and be alone for a while, so they hide in an abandoned factory on the outskirts. But there they fall in a trap of their own intention, and get stuck in the cargo elevator. There is no one around to hear them, and nobody knows their whereabouts. Tension arises after each failed attempt to escape, while they also have to deal with the fact that their entire universe is now reduced to a metal box smaller than a room.
- DirectorNicolae MargineanuStarsCosmin SelesiAliona MunteanuAndi VasluianuHow far can one person go to try and reclaim what they have lost? In a country town, Emil (Cosmin Selesi) becomes unemployed when the factory where he worked closes. After his wife loses her job as well, the two decide to travel to Australia; drawbacks, however, start even before they board a plane.
- DirectorTom GatsoulisStarsSmileyEduard AndreianuOmuNegruWhat's more important: friends or international fame? Smiley has one day to figure out the answer. An American talent scout is offering him a career in the United States, but on one condition: he has to quit his band, Simplu. The band members realize what's going on and they don't like it, which makes his decision even harder. Smiley's life gets even more complicated when he meets Mia, a mysterious girl with a passion for ballet and... tuned car races. Love at first sight is a great thing, but the clock is ticking and Smiley has to choose. Will Simplu be on the stage of the first block party in Romania at the end of the day? A dance-themed romantic comedy which reminds us that life would be much simpler if we didn't complicate it ourselves.
- DirectorMircea DaneliucStarsValentin PopescuMagda CernatLiviu PintileasaWhile working in Europe, Avram comes to realize that Italians are paying good money for trained dogs that can protect them from the waves of immigrants. That's Avram's big-time idea: he returns to Romania to start breeding watch dogs which he can later export to Italy. As it happens, he settles next to a camp of immigrants recently sent back from Rome. Thus, the Italian tension is willy-nilly reenacted on the banks of the Danube. Avram's life gets complicated. He starts having an affair with his own daughter in law, lands in conflict with his ex-immigrant neighbors and his life is literally under threat. The film ends with an unpredictable situation.
- DirectorCristina IonescuStarsDragos BucurAnca FloreaValentina PelinelStefan is a young manager in a big advertising agency, happily married and having a young daughter. He suddenly falls in love with a woman he sees on the street, at a light stop. His life changes completely as he is desperately trying to find the woman of his dreams.
- DirectorGheorghe PredaStarsEmily DalerAnca FloreaConstantin FlorescuAna is a composer who lives a lonely life in her very clean house. All of a sudden her tidy existence is disturbed by a secret admirer whose actions have one element in common: the colour blue.
- DirectorSerban MarinescuStarsStefan IordacheDorel VisanHoratiu MalaeleAll important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.
- DirectorCristian NemescuStarsArmand AssanteJamie ElmanRazvan VasilescuA railway chief delays a NATO train transporting military equipment during the war in Kosovo in 1999.
- DirectorAlexandru SolomonStarsDoina Cornea
- DirectorRadu GabreaStarsDavid ZimmerschiedAlicja BachledaIoana IacobA moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.
- DirectorThomas CiuleiA father raises his three children alone, while his wife is looking for work abroad.
- DirectorMircea DaneliucStarsMihaela AilincaiGheorghe AurIonut BalanIn a village where bird flu is declared, three young men eager to immigrate get in touch with a businessman who may facilitate their entry into the Foreign Legion.
- DirectorNae CaranfilStarsMarius Florea VizanteOvidiu NiculescuMirela ZetaIn 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.
- DirectorIgor CobileanskiStarsMircea DiaconuConstantin DraganescuMara NicolescuTacke, an old graveyard digger, finds out he has only two months left to live. This is the moment he discovers he does want something out of life: a glamorous funeral service in the cemetery's « downtown » area, where he had spotted for a long time an splendidly situated burial site. Everything goes smoothly, especially that the town's luxury funeral home has just acquired Lady Di's hearth. Tacke has some money for the funeral ceremony, he also has some friends who would mourn for him, but he is out of luck: the funeral site he was hoping to acquire was just given to somebody else.
- DirectorAlexandru SolomonThis is a film about what the car traffic turns us into. For 5 months the director in the passenger seat accompanies five ordinary people (A half paralyzed man who not only drives a car, but he also helps other people to avail themselves of cars; Peruvian woman, who was been raised in a city with an equally crazed traffic; a father who has recently lost his daughter in a traffic accident; a policeman who was beaten up by the militia before December 1989) on their every day journeys around the capital.
- DirectorFanny ArdantStarsRonit ElkabetzAbraham BelagaMarc RuchmannAfter her husband was murdered a decade ago, Judith lives in exile in Marseille with her children. But now she is invited to a wedding in her homeland, and she decides to accept the invitation and return for a short time.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsAleksey GuskovMélanie LaurentDmitriy NazarovThirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Bolshoi orchestra in Paris.
- DirectorAnca DamianStarsMimi BranescuOxana MoravecAndi Vasluianu3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally. The three stories are united not only by the characters but also by re-readings of the same theme at different registers.
- DirectorMelissa de RaafRazvan RadulescuStarsOzana OanceaVasile MentzelIleana CernatFelicia expects that her sister will drive her to the Bucharest airport for her flight to Amsterdam. The sister flakes out, triggering a chain of frustrating complications that conspire to keep Felicia waiting with her excessively protective yet well-meaning mother at the airport.
- DirectorBobby PaunescuStarsMonica BarladeanuDorian BogutaLuminita GheorghiuWanting to follow the current trend, Francesca, a young teacher from Bucharest, is eager to emigrate to Italy. Unfortunately, whilst desperately seeking support from those nearest and dearest to her, various untold truths unravel.
- DirectorRadu GabreaStarsFlorin Piersic Jr.Marcel IuresUdo SchenkOn 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « Corriere de la Sera », arrives in Iasi, in the north of Moldova, on his way to the front, which is nearby. He is incapacitated by a severe allergy and his only chance of recovery is to find a Jewish doctor, an allergologist who had studied in Florence, called Josef Gruber. All his attempts to find him are unsuccessful. While looking for him, Curzio discovers that in Iasi, several days prior to his arrival, a violent anti-Semitic pogrom took place and that a large number of the Jewish citizens of Iasi were deported by train and that Dr Gruber may be among them. In order to find him, Curzio, aided by Guido Sartori, the Italian consul in Iasi, tries to obtain an official warrant to bring Josef Gruber back. He confronts indifference, rudeness and the desire by the Romanian authorities to hide something relating to the deportation of the Iasi Jews. His journeys between the garrison of Iasi and its commandant, Colonel Niculescu-Coca, and chief of police Stavarache, are fruitless. After a confrontation with Niculescu-Coca, Curzio and Sartori leave in search of the Jews who, after several nights - during which many of them were shot in the yard of the police station were boarded onto goods wagon and sent to a station 20 kilometres from Iasi. Arriving there, Curzio and Sartori find a number of locked wagons from which moans and whimpers of people in agony are heard. Wanting to open a wagon, Curzio is stopped at gunpoint by a corporal. The two learn from the corporal that the Jews who had died of thirst in the train have already been unloaded and are being buried in a nearby cemetery. Arriving there, before a mass grave where bodies covered in quicklime can be made out, Curzio learns that the man he is looking for, Josef Gruber, is among the dead. The next day, back at the hotel, Curzio receives a visit from Colonel Niculescu-Coca, who, apologizing for the previous days altercation, has some unexpected news for Curzio
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsAndreea BosneagVioleta Haret-PopaVasile MuraruDelia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.
- DirectorAdrian SitaruStarsAdrian TitieniIoana FloraMaria DinulescuThe story of some ordinary people who undergo a relationship crisis, as well as a consciousness crisis - people who find themselves in an extreme situation and give up their principles.
- DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsDragos BucurVlad IvanovIon StoicaA police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
- DirectorTitus MunteanStarsDorian BogutaEduard CirlanMircea DiaconuOn a rainy day, two guys arrive in a small village with film and a projector in their car. No one from the village comes to meet them. What happened? Who are they? The not knowing relays no small amount of interest at times through tension as in a horror movie, and at times through compassionate laughter.
- DirectorMircea DaneliucStarsCecilia BârboraAndrea Ivett ErössNoémi Zsófia ErössMarilena a 40 yo Woman lives her life at maximum. She works in a furniture factory where she is sexually harassed by his boss. At home she has a new born child with the husband of her bet friend. Her lover is in Canada and he have no idea about the existence of the child. When he returns from Canada life of Marilena becomes a nightmare.
- DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsVictor RebengiucCamelia ZorlescuMimi BranescuAccidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family.
- DirectorAndrei GruzsniczkiStarsAndi VasluianuSimona PopescuDan AstileanuSecurity guard Aurel (Andi Vasluianu) and his wife Irene have a moderately happy marriage and a moderately comfortable lifestyle in urban Romania. Irene takes a working trip to Cairo and returns invigorated with the swell of success. She sets out again and never returns. What follows is both predictable and unpredictable. Aurel, and the audience, are suspicious of the official explanation of her death so the foundation is laid for the traditional who-dunnit. Aurel proceeds on an emotional search against all odds.
- DirectorConstantin PopescuStarsConstantin DitaBogdan DumitracheIonut CarasThe story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.
- DirectorConstantin PopescuStarsVlad IvanovConstantin DitaCrina MuresanVelicanu considers himself a fulfilled person. He's got money, a new villa, married a younger woman and has a son from a previous marriage. Before the holidays he has to leave everything in order, but things start to get complicated. The crisis at the end of the day make him wonder whatever he is indeed a happy, fulfilled person...
- DirectorNap ToaderStarsVlad LogiganVictoria BobuConstantin FlorescuLove and wedding business in the time of transition.
- DirectorMarian CrisanStarsAndrás HatháziYilmaz YalçinElvira RimbuA low-key satire that takes a droll approach to the serious subject of illegal immigration.
- DirectorBogdan George ApetriStarsAna UlaruAndi VasluianuIoana FloraA drama about a woman who seems able to overcome everything for freedom, except for her past mistakes.
- DirectorAlexandru SolomonStarsGeorge BecaliGeorge CoposDan DiaconescuAn imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country's businessmen.
- DirectorSinisa DraginStarsMustafa NadarevicDan ConduracheIoana BarbuA touching tale of how far a father will go for his child, no matter how old they get. During the illegal crossing of the Danube, the two fathers meet; Nicu, a Romanian searching for his kidnapped daughter Ina who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and Iorgovan, a Serbian seeking the body of his son Milan killed in a car accident in Romania. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church across the frozen lake upto the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.
- DirectorIoan CãrmãzanStarsBogdan DumitracheRudy RosenfeldGabriel SpahiuA story of friendship and betrayal between two escaped convicts hunted by the law at every step.
- DirectorAnca DamianStarsVlad IvanovJamie SivesSandrine BonnaireWhile being in Poland, Romanian Claudio Crulic is wrongly accused of theft. In jail he goes on a hunger strike.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsSerban PavluSofia NicolaescuGabriel SpahiuMarius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
- DirectorHoratiu MalaeleStarsHoratiu MalaeleCrina SemciucIgor Caras-RomanovIt's about three lifelong friends. One evening, all three of them go to a fortune teller and are told that they will die in a week, on a specific day and in a certain way.
- DirectorAdrian SitaruStarsTudor IstodorMehdi NebbouNicolas WanczyckiThe film is inspired by true events and centers on a young journalist, who goes to Transylvania together with a French TV crew led by a top reporter, to deal with a case of a young prostitute repatriated from France.
- DirectorAnca DamianStarsVlad IvanovAnghel DamianOlimpia MelinteA young man trying to solve the puzzle of his father's last moments rattles the life of a quiet town and unburies unwanted truths. His compulsive quest becomes a downward spiral of love, lust and lies.
- DirectorDaniel SanduStarsStefan IancuVlad IvanovToto DumitrescuA group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.
- DirectorCristi IftimeStarsAlexandru PotoceanAdrian TitieniLucian IftimeThere comes a time when the stories told by your parents cannot put you to sleep anymore.
- DirectorSerban Georgescu1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?
- DirectorAndrei DascalescuStarsIon BarbuCatalin CenusaMihai BarbuIn Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.
- DirectorGheorghe PredaStarsGheorghe PredaFlorin AndreescuOnut DanciuDuring comunist era in Romania, the cine-clubs were very active. A documentary about resistance and passion for making film in front of insurmountable obstacles (political, social, and especially technical).
- DirectorAnca Miruna LazarescuStarsAlexandru MargineanuRazvan EnciuOvidiu SchumacherThe story is set in 1968, when a Romanian-German family from the city of Arad starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic.
- DirectorRadu PotcoavãStarsDan HurducNicholas BohorCrina TofanTwo boys meet during a summer vacation in the late '90s in a romanian town located on the Danube shore, a few days before the summer eclipse. They become close friends, until one of their actions will cause powerful consequences.
- DirectorIulia RuginaStarsDorin AndoneValeriu AndriutaDavid BlajWhile working on an in memoriam piece for a dead colleague, a famous news reporter loses track of the TV story and becomes part of a father-daughter relationship with the teenager left behind.
- DirectorCristina JacobStarsCrina SemciucOlimpia MelinteVlad LogiganYour best friends are also the friends who'll make you do the stupidest things. After parting hardcore, Roxi, Yasmine and Ana meet in a bet that will change their lives: Who gets married first in three days?
- DirectorNicolae MargineanuStarsCristian BotaSergiu BucurIulian BurciuAdrian and Ninel are among the inmates crammed into the freight cars that have just arrived in one of the forced labor camps of the Danube-Black Sea Canal. Among those convicted, there are teachers, lawyers, poets, philosophers, peasants, artists, scientists. Gradually, they realize they are there because the communist regime wants to exterminate them all.
- DirectorNae CaranfilStarsLaurentiu BãnescuMaria ObretinTeodor CorbanA humble Romanian actor in his 30s, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
- DirectorIgor CobileanskiStarsIon SapdaruConstantin PuscasuDaniel BusuiocTwo friends begin a journey full of adventures in Eastern Europe, trying to make it in business and fulfill their long-time dreams.
- DirectorBogdan MiricaStarsAlexandru PotoceanMirela ZetaTeodor CorbanION lives in one of the most drought-affected areas in Romania. Wishing to put an end to his bad luck, Ion commits to work for a foreigner, unaware of the fact that he becomes involved in illegal activities.
- DirectorEmanuel ParvuStarsSerban PavluAdrian TitieniFlorin ZamfirescuA 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.
- DirectorSorin MarinStarsAdrian TitieniVlad IvanovAdina EadyRadu, 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, a game that required risk-taking, effort and skill. A heart attack and the news that he might need a heart transplant determines him to head to a remote place, where the Danube river meets the sea, a place of simple people and age-old customs.
- DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsMircea PostelnicuDiana CavalliotiTania PopaToma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty and quickly fall in love.
- DirectorBogdan MiricaStarsDragos BucurGheorghe VisuVlad IvanovRoman returns to the land he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land..
- DirectorPaul NegoescuStarsDorian BogutaDragos BucurAlexandru PapadopolThree men from a provincial town are in urgent need of money and decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but soon after their ticket gets stolen.
- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsMara Elena AndreiMirela ApostuEugenia BosânceanuCenters around a family gathering on the anniversary of a patriarch's recent death.
- DirectorAdrian SitaruStarsAdrian TitieniAlina GrigoreRobi UrsTwo siblings and an illegitimate love. A father who's a doctor and several accusations. A family in which no one ever drew a line between what's moral and what's legal. Not even when it comes to abortion.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAdrian TitieniMaria DragusLia BugnarA film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
- DirectorHanno HöferRazvan MarculescuCristian MungiuStarsDiana CavalliotiRadu IacobanVlad IvanovSeveral urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.
- DirectorRadu MunteanStarsTeodor CorbanIulian PostelnicuOxana MoravecAfter being the sole unfortunate witness of a domestic quarrel that ends up in a murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer, the other one his very own conscience.
- DirectorDelia AntalStarsDelia AntalJulian ByrdMihai ArseneRomania 1996, six years since communism regime has ended. Yet people are still living deplorable lives. Passports are scarce, travel and the western lives seen in magazines and on TV, no more than fantasy. Dora is the dramatic story of a young girl from a village deep in the Romanian countryside who decides to escape. Smuggled in the back of a van, Dora, a university graduate, travels 1900 km to London, where her life is about to change beyond belief, as she embarks on a life of crime.
- StarsEmilian OpreaOvidiu NiculescuRodica Lazar"Valea Mutã" is a gripping, fast-paced thriller seen through the eyes of two teenagers whose clandestine meeting unravels into a nightmare.
- DirectorConstantin PopescuStarsBogdan DumitracheIulia LumânareConstantin DogioiuThe story follows Tudor and his family, where his life was destroyed after the disappearance their daughter at the park.
- DirectorNap ToaderStarsIoana CraciunescuIrina DinescuTache FlorescuDuring a night shift, an emergency ambulance with a team of three, a doctor, a paramedic and a driver, is called to an old man's apartment. The event will change their lives forever.
- DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsLuminita GheorghiuBogdan DumitracheNatasa RaabAfter the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.
- DirectorNae CaranfilStarsVera FarmigaMark StrongHarry LloydA Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
- DirectorFlorin SerbanStarsValeriu AndriutaVitalie BantasHritcu FlorinA solitary mountain man finds a young woman who has been beaten and abandoned in the woods. He makes her the object of his passion, but her dark past catches up on them.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsIoana IacobAlexandru DabijaAlex BogdanAn artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.
- DirectorIvana MladenovicStarsDan BursucSorin CocisCezar GrumazescuAdi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music, the 'pop music' of the Roma community. Manele music serves as a way out of poverty for some successful musicians, but more often it's just another opportunity for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching this subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon enough, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty, while Alberto feeds Adi with phrases of love. Little by little, their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
- DirectorVlad ZamfirescuStarsTheo MartonIrina VelcescuVlad ZamfirescuFor two friends there is only one secret to happiness, that is easy to understand, but, perhaps, difficult to accept.
- DirectorPaul NegoescuStarsAdrian AnghelIulia CiochinaMarius DrogeanuPetru is a professor of mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and leads a carefree life. He's in an open relationship with Irina, who overlooks that he sleeps with other women from time to time. But once Irina gets pregnant, Petru is forced to change his lifestyle and grow up, even he's 42. One of his friends, who was always there for him, decides to write a book about his story.
- DirectorBogdan Theodor OlteanuStarsSilvana MihaiFlorentina NastaseDenisse MoiseTwo girls begin to chat about another girl, a former lover of both. As they grow closer, the gap between them widens, as one them is looking for answers and love while safely closeted. A try-out for love confined within suffocating prejudices, in today's Romania.
- DirectorIoana UricaruStarsMãlina ManoviciDylan SmithSteve BacicMara, a Romanian nurse, has married one of her patients. She is waiting for US citizenship and is being blackmailed for an alleged sham marriage. She is on her own. Her husband does not help her.
- DirectorSerban MarinescuStarsDorel VisanMircea DiaconuRazvan VasilescuProfessor Nitza is the good guy: soft-spoken and mild-mannered. Everyone in the movie gets license to treat him like a punching bag.
- DirectorStere GuleaStarsHoratiu MalaeleIosif PastinaDana DogaruA sequel to Morometii (1987), the tale follows the life of the Moromete family after WWII, with Romania being overpowered by Communism.