Oleg Mutu

Agate – the older and well-off partner of Matiss and the mother of ten-year-old Paula dies unexpectedly. It becomes a devastating blow for Paula and a grand possibility for Matiss, a charming novice bailiff assistant and a cheating boyfriend, to “upgrade” his social status with Agates splendid house. Matiss and Paula are stuck together in order to find the only relative left – the missing brother of Agate. This journey leaves irreversible footprints on both of them.

A drama about the difficult relationship between a mother and a son, and how their choices have dramatic consequences.

A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.

An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.

The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. Determined to take on the night as if they had never aged they face the realities when their families arrive to join the audience.

Viorel, a quiet, upright tractor driver from a small town in west Romania meets Mocanu, a high profile politician campaigning for a seat in the European Parliament. Mocanu’s car has broken down nearby and Viorel and his wife welcome the politician into their humble home. Under investigation for corruption, Mocanu sees an opportunity and decides to stay with this modest family during the rest of the campaign, winning people’s hearts by posing as a common man next to his “old friend”, the honest, hard-working farmer. In return, Viorel will get a new tractor.

In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.

A young man trying to solve the puzzle of his father's last moments rattles the life of a quiet town and unburies unwanted truths. His compulsive quest becomes a downward spiral of love, lust and lies.

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.

Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.

The plot follows an ordinary woman whose family are becoming estranged. Her daughter is a compulsive liar, and her husband seeks escape by working as a stuntman in a B movie with a third-rate film company. The chances of him dying while filming are high, and everybody in the family knows it. Tormented by the thought that she is no longer needed and is unloved by her family, the woman will go to any extreme to prove the opposite, and to keep her family together for ever.

Trying to find their luck, husband and wife, Lucian and Andra start a new business by managing a guesthouse hidden somewhere deep in the mountains.

It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.

Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

Nineteen-year-old Viorel lives with his mother in a remote Moldovan town. He has no great ambitions nor any illusions about life. He and his pal Goos earn a little cash through illegal activities, and Viorel is helping him fulfill his dream of flying. His mother tries to convince him to find a decent job. Eventually, Viorel begins taking control of his life.

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.

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。＞

A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.

Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.

Tales from the Golden Age is composed of 6 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.

チャウシェスク独裁政権末期のルーマニア、大学生のオティリアとガビツァは寮のルームメート同士。実はガビツァは妊娠していたが、中絶は法律で禁じられていた。中絶手術の当日、予想外の事態が重なり手術の機会を逃しそうになるが、オティリアは親友のためにある決断を下す。

チャウシェスク独裁政権末期のルーマニア、大学生のオティリアとガビツァは寮のルームメート同士。実はガビツァは妊娠していたが、中絶は法律で禁じられていた。中絶手術の当日、予想外の事態が重なり手術の機会を逃しそうになるが、オティリアは親友のためにある決断を下す。

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...。

The father, fired two years before retirement, wants to get rehired, requiring the support of his son. The action takes place in a restaurant in Bucharest.

Three young men from western Europe are bringing humanitarian aid to a remote Transylvanian village. They’ll also be the recipients of a little humanitarian aid themselves.

In a shabby apartment somewhere in Romania, a man obsessively zap between his TV channels despite the wife's complaints and nagging. But where his wife fails, a little man inside the TV will appear and tell Sotul a thing or two about the true mechanics of television zapping...