Maia Morgenstern

Un ambicioso senador y su esposa viajan a Europa cuando su hija es hospitalizada tras sufrir un grave accidente con su novio. Esta experiencia les obligará a replantearse su matrimonio.

Secluded from the world, in XIX century rural Romania, a widow and mother of three must defend what's left of her family, at all costs, from an old family friend turned foe. Based on one of the best-known Romanian folk tales (The Goat and Her Three Kids by Ion Creanga), this film aims to unveil the true nature of the famed bedtime story and to treat the audience to a different perspective, one that offers a glimpse of what the tragedy looks like beyond the happy songs and affable characters.

What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today's society respond to the return of the Son of God? With The New Gospel, Milo Rau is staging a "Revolt of Dignity". Led by political activist Yvan Sagnet, the movement is fighting for the rights of migrants who came to Europe across the Mediterranean to be enslaved on the tomato fields in southern Italy and to live in ghettos under inhumane conditions.

On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait includes eleven complete films: Bassem Ben Brahim's animated "Chromophobia"… Jimi Vall Peterson's "Sleepover" starring Hjalmar Hardestam and Simon Eriksson… Mickey Jones's "Just Me" starring Philip Olivier and Carl Loughlin… Matthew Jacobs Morgan's "Mine" starring Joshua McGuire and John Macmillan… Dale John Allen's "Don't Blame Jack" starring Jordan Tweddle and Kane Surry… Timothy Ryan Hickernell's "Foreign Lovers" co-starring Lucio Nieto… Layke Anderson's "Mankind" starring Ricky Nixon and Alexis Gregory… Christopher Manning's "Isha" starring Horia Săvescu and Dario Coates… Jay Russell's "ruok" starring Peter Mark Kendall, Zachary Booth, and Sydney James Harcourt… Chintis Lundgren's animated "Manivald"… and Zoe McIntosh's "The World In Your Window" starring Joe Folau and David Lolofakangalo Rounds.

Un solitario conductor de tren encuentra un sujetador en su tren y recorre toda la vía buscando a su propietaria para devolvérselo.

Rahmi, a Romanian immigrant living in England, creates a new life for himself while trying to keep up appearances with his Muslim family. This moving, evocative drama costars renowned Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern and Game of Thrones’ Lino Facioli alongside newcomer Hora Savescu as Rahmi.

An ancient dying land is brought back to life by the primal force of a young mute girl, who witnesses the fatal clash between two fathers.

Secluded from the world, a single mother of three has to defend that what's left of her family, at all cost, from a cold blooded killer. Based on one of the best known Romanian fairy tales (The Goat and Her Three Kids by Ion Creanga), this short film aims to unveil the true nature of the famed bed time story and to treat the audience to a different perspective, one that offers a glimpse at what the tragedy actually looks like beyond the happy songs and colorful characters.

Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania.

A young couple struggles to keep their marriage afloat in a foreign country.

Rudy Adams es una bailarina del Medio Oeste con una beca para estudiar, que disfruta de su primer día viviendo en Nueva York. Johnnie Blackwell es un músico británico que toca en el metro para ganarse la vida. Ella vive en un mundo clásico y disciplinado, para él todo es improvisación e inteligencia callejera. Pero cuando una batalla de hip-hop no sale como esperaban, sus dos realidades colisionarán, haciendo que salten chispas.

Un par de periodistas italoamericanos desaparecen durante su trabajo en Rumania.

Exodus to Shanghai tells the story of two lovers who have to escape from Vienna to China after Dr. Ho, the Chinese Consul in Vienna in 1938, issued Exit Visas to many Jews against the instruction of his superiors. Fannia, a New York Jewish Violin student, falls in love with the Consul's nephew Bruce. Together they must leave Vienna as the Gestapo is chasing them to get the Jews and Hitler's painting.

The film is an adaptation of the well known short story "Miss Christina" by Mircea Eliade. Moscu arrived at the mansion with his girlfriend, Sanda, the young artist Egor Paşchievici notes that her entire family worships Miss Christina, her aunt murdered in unclear circumstances when she was just 20 years old, during the riots of 1907. Egor is inexplicably drawn into a portrait of Miss Christina and begins to dream. Soon, however, the boundary between dream and reality is blurred and Miss Christina, love Egor, is brought back to life through occult rituals even by her family. When realized, however, that life is in danger Egor Sanda decides to fight the ghost.

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.

Thriller rural, arisco y brumoso que se desliza por los márgenes de territorios fronterizos, bajo el peso del western agreste de sensibilidad contemporánea y la tragedia soterrada sobre la ineluctabilidad del destino. Un escabroso episodio doméstico, nunca manifiesto categóricamente, es la fuerza motriz que nos permite, en última instancia, dilucidar la naturaleza de la conducta violenta del protagonista, un joven huraño e impetuoso, que, respaldado por el cobijo fraternal que le brinda un matrimonio vecino, se desvanece, como un depredador, en la espesura del bosque, armado con un rifle y cegado por un propósito desafiante. Un animal herido en busca de su identidad. (FILMAFFINITY)

En su dieciseisavo cumpleaños, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Eva conoce a Tudor y se convierte en el amor de su vida. Pero su relación sufre a través de sus constantes salidas misteriosas y reapariciones. En ausencia de Tudor, ella conoce y se casa con el barón Von Oswald Seele, pero cuando vuelve Tudor el amor de Eva por él se enciende de nuevo y pasan un verano inolvidable juntos, dejando a Eva embarazada y su matrimonio en ruinas. A medida que la guerra avanza, Europa se encuentra en un estado de total desorden. Tudor vuelve a Eva para encontrar tragedia a cada paso: la pérdida de un hijo, políticos asesinados, ataques y rebeliones que culminan en la masacre de judíos. Cuando Tudor aparece por última vez, entonces es cuando Eva se entera de los secretos de su pasado. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un grupo de jóvenes en busca de la felicidad emprende un viaje por carretera cargado de acontecimientos inesperados.

Muestra la relación entre una anciana y su cuidadora.

At 15 he and his family became victims of state terror. At 16 he became a freedom fighter to participate in the 1956 Revolution against Soviet oppression. At 17 he is betrayed and arrested by the dreaded Secret Police (AVH). Now he has to spend the remainder of his life in a political prison, called Hell's Hallway, to reach the legal age of 18 before his death penalty can be carried out. Peter Mansfeld was 18 when he was unjustly executed by the totalitarian regime of Hungary. Today he is remembered as one of the national heroes of Hungary.

Being forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal.

A love story that happens in the background Revolution in Timișoara.

An antiques dealer misses out on some of life's pleasures because of his obsession with doing everything fast.

At an old age, prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, after having lead an eventful youth. There he is seen upon as a rare bird by the local folk, due to his strange attitude towards life and his exquisit manners, which don't fit in the way of life of the villagers. But, in the end, despite trying to distance himself from the local people, he can't but influence their humble existences.

Nothing seems to threaten the quiet and happy life of Alexandra and Mircea, a couple who's both admired and envied: love, successful careers, and wealth. And nothing seems to ever threaten the very special relation between a renowned university teacher and one her most gifted student, Alexandra and Corina: two women, two friends who, against the age gap, share the same goals, the same interests. Even the same love interests. Until one day, when the sensibility is stronger than the reason. And all of a sudden, everything that seemed certain, such as friendship, loyalty, love and devotion, turns into a terrible hate.

Durante el rodaje de "La pasión de Cristo" dirigida por Mel Gibson, Francesco Cabras y Alberto Molinari se acercan a los involucrados en el rodaje para hacerles "La gran pregunta": ¿Qué es Dios para ti? y para que cuenten sus opiniones y creencias. Las respuestas son a menudo inesperadas y a veces provocativas. Alma alegórica y conductora de todo el testimonio es el viaje casi onírico y hierático de un perro blanco que atraviesa valles, montañas y paisajes de Lucania.

Año 33 de nuestra era. En la provincia romana de Judea, un misterioso carpintero llamado Jesús de Nazareth comienza a anunciar la llegada del "reino de Dios" y se rodea de un grupo de humildes pescadores: los Apóstoles. Durante siglos, el pueblo judío había esperado la llegada del Mesías - personaje providencial que liberaría su sagrada patria e instauraría un nuevo orden basado en la justicia-. Las enseñanzas de Jesús atraen a una gran multitud de seguidores que lo reconocen como el Mesías. Alarmado por la situación, el Sanedrín, con la ayuda de Judas Iscariote, uno de los doce Apóstoles, arresta a Jesús. Acusado de traición a Roma, Cristo es entregado a Poncio Pilato, quien, para evitar un motín, lo condena a a morir en la cruz como un vulgar criminal.

Un músico poco sociable acoge en su casa a refugiados judíos. Son los años de la persecución nazi, y aunque el soprano Irme Rose es judío, su fama hace que su hogar se respete. La familia Halász se beneficia de la situación, y aunque nunca ven a Rose, todas las noches disfrutan de la voz, un momento de paz en medio de la pesadilla.

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.

Un señor de la guerra, en la remota Rumanía, se ve obligado a desencadenar toda una serie de sangrientas batallas para recuperar sus tierras. Ésto le hará conventirse en toda una leyenda por su despiadado y brutal trato hacia sus enemigos.

The Romanian army faces the German army in the epic battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, marking a turning point in World War 1.

Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.

Edith Stein se ha convertido al catolicismo, después de encontrar en Cristo la respuesta a su búsqueda de la verdad, leyendo los escritos de santa Teresa de Jesús. Debido a sus orígenes judíos, la decisión le acarreará la repulsa de su propia madre y las críticas de algunos compañeros. Mientras tanto, en Alemania se vive una época muy tensa por el implacable avance del Tercer Reich. En este contexto, Edith dejará atrás su exitosa carrera como filósofa, para ingresar como novicia en un convento carmelita.

Un cineasta griego, exiliado en los Estados Unidos, regresa a su ciudad natal para emprender un apasionante viaje. De Albania a Macedonia, de Bucarest a Constanza (Rumanía), a través del Danubio hasta Belgrado y por fin a Sarajevo. En su camino se cruza con su propia historia, con el pasado de los Balcanes, con las mujeres que podría amar. Espera recobrar con estas imágenes olvidadas la inocencia de la primera mirada.

Historia del famoso médico y astrólogo francés de origen judío que vivió en el siglo XVI. Es autor de un libro que contiene diversas profecías.

After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.

The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.

Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ningea în Bărăgan” novel by Fănuș Neagu.

The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her.

An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.

The wife of a sea captain has a tough time being alone without her husband which is in a long trip.

The action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and some young workers.

At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.

Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.

Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.

A sequel to The Passion of the Christ (2004) focuses on the events that occurred 3 days between the crucifixion and resurrection when Jesus Christ descended to Abraham's Bosom to preach and resurrect Old Testament saints.