When he spies on his partner, Camil discovers something sinister: a cult with white robes and strange rituals. Sebastian Mihăilescu’s experimental narrative cinema plays with myths, gender roles, and the set pieces of the horror genre.
Liviu
A night. Dozens of stories. A city. Lică, a taxi driver, is an all knowing guy, while Liviu, his friend, also a taxi driver keeps a lot to himself. They are completely different and their ideas about life and people only meet when they are eating and drinking at the bar. They are frustrated with their jobs. For Lică money is the most important thing, while Liviu thinks that a happy and fulfilling life represents more. They are trying to rediscover who they are and what they can do with their life, all while being on an on going adventure on the streets of Bucharest where they cross paths with all kinds of clients who end up having an impact on their lives, for better and also for worse.
Dan
Poppy Field sigue la lucha de un joven gendarme rumano, Cristi, que intenta encontrar el equilibrio entre dos partes aparentemente opuestas de su identidad: la de un hombre que trabaja en un entorno jerárquico machista y la de un gay en el armario que intenta mantener su vida personal en secreto. Mientras su novio francés a distancia, Hadi, lo visita, Cristi es llamado para una intervención en un cine, donde un grupo ultranacionalista y homofóbico ha interrumpido la proyección de una película queer. Después de que uno de los manifestantes amenaza con sacarlo del armario, Cristi pierde el control.
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.
Petru is a math professor at the Polytechnic University, who's living an easy life, with no big worries. He is in an open relationship with Irina, who agreed he can sleep with other women from time to time. But when she becomes pregnant, he will be put in the situation to change his lifestyle and be forced to mature at 42 years old. One of his supporting friends decides to write a book based on his story.
Zoe finally met someone (Duncan) that she really cares about enough to introduce to her friends. Everybody seems to be excited for her and they’re trying their best to make Duncan feel at home, but Zoe has a secret. Her mood transforms the evening into the perfect opportunity for scandal and all the characters will get the chance to express how they really feel
Gabi
Tres días después del atentado contra Charlie Hebdo y cuarenta días después de la muerte de su padre, Lary – 40 años, médico – va a pasar el sábado con su familia, reunida en memoria del difunto. El evento, sin embargo, no se desarrolla como estaba previsto. Obligado a afrontar sus miedos y su pasado y forzado a reconsiderar el lugar que ocupa dentro de la familia, Lary tendrá que decir su verdad.
