Eva
Eve and Adam meet in Eden. It soon becomes apparent that they don’t find each other particularly attractive. But do they have a choice? Writing helps. They each start keeping a diary about this first encounter between two human beings — from very different perspectives, as one might imagine. And as they get on each other’s nerves and recount terrible things about each other, they discover an unexpected new emotion: love.
Romania's winning streak at festivals continues, but the most unusual and ambiguous one still lurks in mysterious darkness. The undeservedly underrated Gabriel de Achim challenged the widely renowned Cristi Puiu (“The Death of Mr. Lazarescu”) to make a film using all the things, which the established Romanian master most detests in cinema. He constructed a non-linear story with wickedly tangled flash backs and flash forwards and set the same actors to perform different and multi-faceted roles.
Mother
Un laboratorio científico mantiene en cautividad a una anaconda gigante con fines experimentales. Cuando ésta y otra de las serpientes del laboratorio escapan y empiezan a atacar a los científicos, un equipo de especialistas deberá intervenir para dar caza a los animales.
Tatiana / Adalbert
It's not just any day at the factory for our shady but somehow admirable hero Iulica (Gabriel Spahiu), Health and Safety Chief, but the morning after the glorious victory of underdogs Steaua Bucharest in the European Champions Cup over the mighty Barcelona - the only Romanian team ever to win it. Everyone, or at least the men, really wants to be celebrating this, but in fact it's Romanian Communist Party Day which is taking centre stage in the works canteen.
Zenia
Tras la guerra de los Balcanes, una agente de la policía de Nebraska que viaja a Bosnia como observadora de las Naciones Unidas denuncia ante la ONU a una multinacional por haber encubierto varios casos de tráfico sexual. El guión se basa en la historia de Kathryn Bolkovac, que fue a Bosnia en 1999 como miembro del comité de las Naciones Unidas para el mantenimiento de la paz.
Wendy
Una cría de anaconda, genéticamente mejorada, se ha regenerado y crece monstruosamente. La cría sedienta de sangre es aparentemente invencible, y se desliza entre explosiones y disparos para regenerarse y alimentarse insaciablemente de todo lo que se encuentre en su camino.
Victorine Taillefer
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
Widow
En el corazón de las remotas montañas de los Cárpatos en Rumania, 4 estudiantes inician un viaje de grandes descubrimientos. Pero uno de ellos oculta un secreto que desatará una fuerza maligna sin precedentes, un mal que causará la muerte de algunos y que cambiará a los supervivientes para siempre.
Nurse
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
Sorina
"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
