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- DirectorCarla Maria TeahaStarsNora IugaCarla Maria TeahaMircea CartarescuPoet, novelist and translator, 92-year-old Nora Iuga is a unique character on the contemporary literature scene. Discover the Romanian writer banned by communists for "morbid eroticism" and learn her secret of always staying young.
- DirectorVlad PetriStarsIlinca HarnutVictoria StoiciuTwo women separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.
- DirectorAlexandru SolomonStarsGheorghe AlexandrescuGheorghe BlidaruGheorghe BratescuIn 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenklatura and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to play themselves in a film which reconstitutes the crime and the investigation. At the end of their trial, filmed live, they are sentenced to death and executed. A month later, the film Reconstitution was released and became a sensation throughout the country.
- 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.
- DirectorDana BunescuMona NicoaraStarsNina CassianMaurice EdwardsMona NicoaraA heavy drinker and heavy smoker, the avantgardist poet, composer and illustrator Nina Cassian she was both an accomplice and a problem for the Stalinist regime in Romania. Afterwards she was a direct opposer of Ceausescu's regime.
- 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.
- DirectorAlexandru SolomonA film about utopias and a metaphoric drama that threads the similar destinies of monkeys and men.
- DirectorTudor PlatonStarsAna-Maria BondarAura ChindeaIleana CraciunHouse of Dolls is an exploration of a special universe: the annual vacation of a bunch of 70-year-old ladies. Far from men and the madness of daily life, Cica, Nana and their friends isolate themselves voluntarily in a villa in the countryside. Together they blend joie de vivre and memories, melancholia and joyfulness, gossip and jokes. All that to keep up the illusion that time has not passed, that they are still the same beautiful and attractive girls they were 50 years ago.
- 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.
- DirectorEugene BuicaIt's no surprise that no one ever celebrated Mrs. Buica - her worldly accomplishments were raising a family and surviving a bad marriage.
- DirectorIulian Manuel GhervasAdina PopescuStarsIbi TirnovanNelu TirnovanDocumentary following the exploits of the football team Vulturul Taga, from the village of Taga, Cluj, playing in the bottom division of Romanian football, centered around its main driving force, coach and factotum Nelu Tirnovan.
- DirectorIlinca CalugareanuStarsIrina Margareta NistorTeodor ZamfirMircea CojocaruIn the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.
- DirectorIlinca CalugareanuStarsHaoming Chen16-year-old Yuguo, who has a passion for Eastern European romantic poetry, makes a pilgrimage from his home in China to the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
- DirectorIlinca CalugareanuA 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.
- DirectorAndrei DascalescuStarsConstantin VincaElena VincaA warm documentary about an elderly Romanian couple. Each day, they still manage to enjoy life and each other, but grieve over the finiteness of it all.
- DirectorAndrei DascalescuStarsIon BarbuCatalin CenusaMihai BarbuIn Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.
- DirectorDana BunescuCatalina TesarPeli and Nina are a couple from a traditional Roma community who were married by arrangement and are parents to a little girl. However, local custom posits that a marital union can only endure if the couple conceive a boy who can later inherit the family's badge - the chalice (tahtai).
- DirectorSerban GeorgescuLiviu TofanStarsAndrei UrsuMarch 4, 1977. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Romania, leaving a trail of destruction: a death toll of more than 1,500; dozens of buildings collapsed and thousands more damaged. Exactly 4 months later, Ceausescu specifically forbids any projects connected with the consolidation work, and threatens to throw in jail anyone failing to comply. The only man who will denounce this criminal order is engineer Gheorghe Ursu. He will pay for this with his life, as the Securitate officers torture and eventually kill him. Following the collapse of the communist regime in December 1989, Andrei Ursu seeks justice by bringing to trial the two officers responsible for his father's death.
- DirectorAlexandra DiaconuDuring the pandemic, a grieving family finds solace through dark humor and online calls with relatives abroad.