Anca Popescu
A long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love.
Director
Alice, a buoyant and impertinent red-hair teenager is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and affected by the specter of her mother’s disappointments, Alice acts with her back against the wall, forging lies and blurring lines between the fiction she designs for herself and the reality of her existence. Until her mother discovers she is pregnant.
Actor
A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
Magda
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.
Carmen
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.
doctor Radu
かつて幼少時代を同じ孤児院で過ごしたアリーナとヴォイキツァ。ドイツに出稼ぎに行っていた身寄りのないアリーナは、修道院にいるヴォイキツァを訪ねて、冬のルーマニアに戻ってくる。アリーナの願いは、世界でただひとり愛するヴォイキツァと一緒に居ること。しかし、修道院で暮らし信仰に目覚めたヴォイキツァとは以前のように心が通わなくなり、アリーナは精神のバランスを崩していく。そしてそれが悪魔の仕業とみなされ悪魔祓いの儀式が執り行われることになり、再び彼女を取り戻そうとするアリーナは次第に精神を患っていく。静かで穏やかな生活を営んでいた修道女たちを戸惑わせ、混乱させるアリーナ。ついに修道院は彼女の病が悪魔の仕業であるとみなし、彼女を救うべくある決断を下すのだった―。<クリスティアン・ムンジウ監督が、05年に同国で起こった事件を題材に、2人の女性が悪魔祓いの犠牲になる悲劇を描いたドラマ。>
Gabriela
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
Dr. Zamfir
ある日突然、体に異変を感じはじめた一人暮らしの老人。体調不良の原因を突き止めて適切な処置を受けるため、いくつか病院をまわる羽目になるが...。