Gheorghe Ifrim

Cosmin plays a tennis game with 3 friends. He looks at the clock and starts panicking: he is late to the Registry Office, to a wedding- his wedding, with his ex-wife, who he had divorced without his friends knowing. Everything starts in 2007 when the real-estate bubble reaches its peak. Cosmin gifts Reli a land on the edge of a lake, for their wedding anniversary. He plans to build 7 villas, sell them and win 1 million Euros.

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.

Unos días antes de Navidad, Matthias vuelve a su pueblo natal, una localidad multiétnica de Transilvania, tras dejar su trabajo en Alemania. Está preocupado por su hijo, Rudi, que ha crecido sin él, y por su padre, Otto, que se había quedado solo, y desea volver a ver a Csilla, su exnovia. Trata de implicarse más en la educación del niño, que ha pasado demasiado tiempo a cargo de su madre, Ana, y quiere ayudarle a superar sus miedos irracionales. Cuando la fábrica que Csilla dirige decide contratar a empleados extranjeros, la paz de esta pequeña comunidad se verá perturbada, y las inquietudes afectarán también a los adultos. Las frustraciones, los conflictos y las pasiones volverán a aflorar, rompiendo la paz aparente de la comunidad.

Hawaii is a story on the struggle of inheriting $3 million in communist-era Romania when owning $1 could mean losing your freedom and touches on the theme of how money could buy if not happiness, at least the freedom to choose unhappiness.

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.

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.

Ionut and Mariana will get married soon. It's time to meet their families and to plot the happy event. In-laws seem to understand perfectly: passion for TV series unites luxury, Romanian music of the '80s and brandy. Especially brandy. As the bottles are emptied, misunderstandings begin to appear. Three couples, three visions on marriage: fast and opulence (with white doves and Holograf Fuego), traditional wedding (with musicians and tent), or a youthful? Different options, different camps. No one fails. Moreover, the two parents-in-law remember that they met once, 25 years ago. They were in different camps. Now that miraculously brought back to life to face. Follow great challenge. It takes a miracle that this wedding is to be held.

Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour.

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.

Después de haber vivido varios años en Alemania, Alina se reúne con una amiga en un aislado convento ortodoxo rumano. Su amistad se remonta a la época en que, siendo niñas, se conocieron en un orfanato. Alina pretende que su amiga vuelva con ella a Alemania, pero ésta se niega porque no sólo ha encontrado refugio en la fe, sino que las monjas constituyen su familia.

Nina, a former Miss of a province town currently unemployed, who has enough of her boring life with her husband, Cornel. She decides to kidnap Marinela, the bride of an local mobs wedding, in exchange of a huge ransom that hopefully will provide her a better life. Surprisingly enough the bride refuses to return to her disgusting husband and provokes a series of events very serious for her family, but hilarious for the movie.

Jennifer is an American who lives in Romania. Radu Prodan is married and with it has a very intelligent boy of 10 years. Jennifer is a teacher of literature in Bucharest. Located at a baptism as NASA, the police arrest her husband and so was the fact her husband has a business that consists of money laundering. Due to restrictions of law, not allowed to leave the country. Jennifer, NASA, trying hard to find a solution to solve all problems.

La última película del director rumano Cristi Puiu ('La muerte del señor Lazarescu') gira en torno a Viorel (interpretado por el propio Cristi Puiu), un hombre divorciado padre de dos niñas, tiene 42 años y que se encuentra sumergido en una profunda crisis. Aunque aparentemente es un tipo normal y corriente, algunas de sus actitudes hacen presagiar lo peor: conduce por toda la ciudad en posesión de un rifle de caza y no sabemos qué intenciones puede tener de utilizarlo... ¿qué busca? ¿qué pretende? ¿hacia dónde se dirige? Pronto descubriremos que Viorel es en realidad un despiadado asesino, cuando lo veamos acechar a una familia en un solar abandonado. Después, continuará su viaje incierto rodeado de terribles pensamientos.

Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.