Adrian Titieni

A grand old house has seen generations of war and change, but as demolition looms, its tenants must face corrupt interests that govern this new world.

Recorded over 10 years, România Sălbatică shows the colorful beauty of Romanian nature accompanied with wildlife.

Mircea, antiguo agente de Inteligencia, recibe la noticia de que su hijo se ha perdido en las montañas y viaja al lugar para encontrarlo. Después de días de búsqueda, Mircea reúne a su propio equipo de rescate, generando un conflicto con la patrulla local.

A fantasy and comedy short fiction film about a parking valet suffering from OCD who stumbles upon love.

Otto, a seventeen-year-old punk, becomes involved in the social services investigation of his girlfriend Laura’s death. He is caught up in a vicious circle created by his parents, his mute grandpa and Laura’s mother. Laura is still part of his life through video recordings that he edits constantly, trying to make sense of the events. Through this process, Otto must take his portion of the responsibility for what happened.

During the protests that are taking place on August 10, 2018 in Bucharest, Alex's parents are holding a party for celebrating his University admission. But he will be trying to escape it and meet the reality from the streets.

Devastada por la Primera Guerra Mundial y sumida en una controversia política, cada esperanza de Rumania acompaña a su Reina en su misión a París, para presionar por el reconocimiento internacional de su gran unificación en las conversaciones de paz de 1919.

With little time to live, Carturan, a 60 year old man, tries to fix the most important aspects of his life.

The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting.

To follow in his father’s and older brother’s footsteps, Mihai, a seventeen-year-old Romanian, gets ready for a mission that he must go to France to finish. During the last night with his family, little by little, he is overcome with doubt and fear.

Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable lifestyle. After Ivan’s arrival back to Bucharest, Ioana is found dead, with her wrists cut. Ivan starts living in the absent presence of Ioana, who is starting to be more vivid in death than in life.

Petru is a drilling engineer living in a community of oil industry workers. He has mixed feelings. On the one hand he is about to marry his pregnant girlfriend Laura, on the other he is involved with the wife of one of his colleagues, Sonia, the victim of a serious accident at work. His new life seems about to begin while she feels hers is ending. When Laura finds out about his relationship with Sonia, all hell breaks loose. Petru feels terrible guilt, but also responsibility for the baby-to-be.

Radu Iovan and his high moral principles become the target of a ten thousand souls wager between God and Satan.

When a couple returns to their apartment building on Christmas Eve, they find a man dressed as Santa Claus trying to break into their neighbor's apartment.

Costi (30) suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, and arrange a surprise reunion with the rest of the family that Sandu has neglected all his life. It's Costi's way of running away from his own couple issues for a day.

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.

Un implacable ejecutivo lidia con la competencia, pero una amenaza repentina le obliga a cambiar su estilo de vida y lo lleva a buscar consuelo en un viejo amigo.

Un abogado investiga el último día de la vida de su padre: un juez cuya turbia muerte levanta sospechas en torno a su joven viuda.

Romanian-born Radu Patru is a trainee at a prestigious French news network. Serving as a translator and general problem solver, or "fixer," for the headlining journalists during his trial period, he's looking to make his big break. He sees his opportunity when two underage Romanian prostitutes are repatriated from France, creating an international scandal. Taking advantage of his language skills and local connections, Radu is prepared to do whatever it takes to interview one of the young girls. But as he ventures into tricky moral ground, he must stop to ask himself if, as an aspiring journalist, he can live with the consequences of his actions, and if, as a father, he's setting a good example for his son.

Los jóvenes Toma y Ana se conocen en la universidad, se enamoran y se casan. Toma cuida de ella y parece estar al mando de la situación, cuando, en realidad, únicamente está gravitando en torno a una mujer a la que no puede comprender. Cuando Ana vence sus miedos y logra triunfar, Toma permanece aislado, intentando comprender el torbellino que ha sido su vida con ella, enmarcado en la profunda represión y los tabúes de la sociedad rumana.

Sami and Dora are husband and wife, they have an age-gap marriage filled with compromises. Now they are waiting the social worker from the adoption agency to come at their home to decide if they are eligible to adopt a child. But they are caught in a moral dilemma: can buying a life be the price of saving their own relationship?

At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.

Romeo es un médico de casi 50 años que dejó atrás las ilusiones relacionadas con su matrimonio, ahora acabado, y su Rumanía, destrozada por los acontecimientos. Para él todo lo que importa ahora es su hija, de 18 años. Tras los exámenes finales, la joven irá a estudiar a una prestigiosa escuela en Inglaterra. En la víspera del examen, la hija es atacada en la calle. A partir de entonces, hará todo lo posible para garantizar que ello no perturbe el destino que ha elegido para su hija.

During 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.

Es una noche cualquiera en una tienda de barrio abierto las 24 horas. Achim, el dueño, es el nudo que conecta cuatro historias de personas comunes inmersas en situaciones extraordinarias. Más allá de sus diferencias, el taxista y la prostituta, la pareja de ancianos, los amantes y los gángsters locales tienen una cosa en común: la tienda de 24 horas de Achim.

Drăgan Niță is a humble French teacher from Romania that has always dreamt of visiting Paris one day. To make his dream come true, he saves 1 lei every day.

Ema is the successful TV anchor of a national TV broadcaster, the star of a popular tabloid show. A perfectionist, she has no hesitation in putting at steak her health or money for higher ratings.

Every year Mihai carries his motorcycle in his tenth floor apartment during the winter and bring it back downstairs in spring with the help of his friends. But this year Mihai finds out how fragile friendships can become.

Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then disappears. When he is found, the little boy's footage is misinterpreted by the media.

In a small village close to the mountains, Mariana and Puiu are a young family with two children: Carmen and Mircea. One morning, the mother and the ten year-old daughter leave for Bucharest, having a hospital as their destination. One doctor alone, Sitaru, believes that Carmen, who can no longer smile, stands any chances at survival. He believes he can perform a miracle and save Carmen's life. Struggling for her daughter, abandoned by almost everybody she trusted, Mariana discovers she is pregnant. After dr. Sitaru operates on the little girl, in a risky manner, Carmen begins to feel increasingly worse. Without any hope, Mariana leaves the hospital and rushes to take Carmen home: while one life ends, another one begins to flicker.

Un hombre de mediana edad reprimido se da cuenta de que su vida se había convertido en una vida de miseria y soledad. Después de hacerse amigo de un escritor ciego al que tuvo que desalojar de su casa, encuentra la inspiración y el coraje que necesita para romper todas las reglas que se había visto obligado a respetar y volver a conectar con la alegría y la emoción de la vida.

Una noche, un hombre de 32 años, que conduce su coche a una velocidad muy superior a la establecida, atropella a un niño que muere poco después. Al temerario conductor le espera una pena de prisión de entre tres y quince años, pero su madre, una arquitecta de la clase alta de Rumania, intentará evitarlo por todos los medios.

Revenge. Feels so good. Are you ready to pay the price for it?

Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, funny, absurd but quite realistic events. It is all about us, people who eat the animals that they love and the animals that love people unconditionally.

A story about the illusion of getting rich in Romania. In a country where stories of striking it rich are everywhere, anyone thinks such a thing is not only possible, but it's easily achievable. The storyline follows two destinies: one is of a young couple, Marius and Cosmina. Marius wrote an imaginary name on a lottery promotion ticket just to drag Cosmina. And the draw makes him the winner. The other is of two adults. Because of their lack of knowledge when it comes to modern technology, they get fooled by e-mail spam, fall for a false online lottery and loose their last savings. The stories meet at the end, when they loose all hope and refuse their only chance of getting rich. Finally we realize that the illusion of becoming rich puts ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

On a hot summer day, Vasile, a 50-something year old peasant, refuses to accompany his wife Lucretia to a religious ceremony arguing he has to finish the ditch in front of their house to avoid paying a fine. Scared by the hard work ahead of him, he tries to find somebody to help him. Petre, a Gypsy young man seems to be the right person. After changing a few words with him, Vasile notices that Petre is upset because none of the villagers wants to be the Godfather for his kid. Vasile decides to baptize the child himself asking Petre in exchange to help him finish the ditch. In the evening, Lucretia learns about Vasile's decision and a new ordinary domestic fight starts between them.

Children who are born in family feuds, automatically become grown men, from very early ages. Just because it is a traumatic reality, precisely because we don't read on their faces innocence, happiness or desire to live his childhood, but the weight that burdened his life. The 19 years old young girl is the only source of income support and family. Kiddo is passionate about boxing and the ring is her only refuge.

Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes - throughout with best intentions.

Although he hates dogs, Toni is engaged in finding lost animals and then sentimentally blackmails the masters in order to obtain beautiful large amounts of money. Because of an old and ugly Pekinese that Toni cannot succeed of getting rid of, feelings of affection awake in him that surprise even Toni.

A young couple visits the girl's grandmother and also meets the girl's father who has a birthday.

Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex.

A math teacher from Bucharest and his lover go out for a picnic to relax. The film follows what happens after an accident occurs and the two characters argue about how to handle the situation. Things take a twist and as the victim becomes an part of the story.

A beautiful Western woman asks a Gypsy to watch her four-year-old child while she is taught how to swim by a flirtatious married man, before she disappears into the sea.

El señor Lazarescu es viudo y vive solo en un apartamento con sus tres gatos. Su hija Bianca se marchó a vivir a Canadá. Una noche, el solitario anciano se siente mal y llama a una ambulancia. Lo llevan a un hospital, y desde allí a otro y a otro más, pero en ninguno pueden atenderlo. Mientras tanto, su estado de salud se va agravando rápidamente.

A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.

The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.

Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI

Two parallel stories about unhappy marriages that take place during inter-war period in the Banat village within Romanian ethnic minority in Serbia.

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.

Dana, a young teacher, loses her husband in a car accident. Her four year old son misses a father a lot. Dragoș appears in their lives to fill the void.

A history professor decides to take kids from his class in a trek across the country so they can experience various places and people.

Several students spend their last days of high school in a cheerful and musical atmosphere. Petrica and 'Sunny Smile', who has become a fairy tale princess in the meantime, find their way back to each other, from the real world to the dream one and the other way around, in order to meet their love halfway between the two realms.

Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in the United States. Dorel is going to watch the wedding through a webcam, together with two of his son’s friends. On a small screen, they are about to meet the bride and her father, and witness the ceremony.