Gabriel Spahiu

Alex is an artist shunned by success whose love life is affected by the career rise of his girlfriend, Carmen. Alex is sent to a maximum security penitentiary to stage the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The great Shakespeare with prisoners. In the face of their efforts to overcome his limits, Alex realizes that he is a prisoner in his own life. For their part, the inmates do everything to be selected in the penitentiary theater festival, because each scene has a hatch through which they can escape.

Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.

After a water pipe incident a young couple receives an unexpected visit from their older neighbors. Things get heated and cause the smoldering problems of the couple to come out.

남편과 합의 하에 찍은 섹스 비디오가 포르노 사이트에 유출된 사실을 뒤늦게 발견한 교사 에미. 학생들 사이에서 비디오가 금세 퍼졌고, 이를 알게 된 동료 교사들과 학부모들이 에미를 해임하기 위해 긴급 회의를 소집한다. 심판대에 서서 온갖 조롱과 모욕을 당하던 에미는 결국 분노를 대폭발시키는데...

This is Emil’s story, the man who doesn’t believe in ghosts, and his best friend, Titi. The plot unfolds in a remote hamlet, a place looking like a slice of heaven. However, the story begins at the 40-day memorial service for Smaranda, the late wife of Emil. Days pass by, and Emil realizes that Titi looks like his days are numbered. He wants to brighten him up, but nothing helps. That’s because 40 days after her death, Smaranda moves into Titi’s house and starts haunting him.

인종청소 운동이 시작될 무렵인 1941년, 루마니아의 장관회의에서 나온 유명한 이야기를 바탕으로 한 무대를 신랄하게 재현하는 동시에, 이를 지켜보는 관객을 날카로운 시선으로 담아낸다.

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

마사지 치료사로 근근이 살아가는 20대 청년. 미 정부의 무기 거래를 따내자는 친구의 제안에 귀가 솔깃해진다. 파이가 크면 부스러기도 쏠쏠한 법이라나. 하지만 점차 욕심이 커지면서 부스러기 대신 파이를 노리는 싸움이 시작된다.

During a night shift, an emergency ambulance with a team of three, a doctor, a paramedic and a driver, is called to an old man's apartment. The event will change their lives forever.

Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.

Directed by four different filmmakers and produced by different production companies, these four short films share a common theme - life and death - and a common origin - all four are independent productions made with a little help from all our friends.

A French real estate developer prepares an old Romanian thermal resort for renovation. A Roman fresco in a crypt delays the project, so he tries to burn it down. But he locks himself in a courtyard by mistake. He stays trapped for days, the neighborhood being deserted. He tries communicating with the few remaining residents and changes from a civilized being to a beast, until finding new perspectives. Will he leave the courtyard, or not?

An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.

Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.

Considering that his life is a failure, a man records himself leaving a video-message to his loved ones. After this message, which tackles, in funny and sad ways, a lot of issues, both personal and social, he shoots himself in the head. But he fails. And what follows is the a ridiculous and horrific agony, that probably changes the characters' vision about life... A film done basically in one single shot.

It's not just any day at the factory for our shady but somehow admirable hero Iulica (Gabriel Spahiu), Health and Safety Chief, but the morning after the glorious victory of underdogs Steaua Bucharest in the European Champions Cup over the mighty Barcelona - the only Romanian team ever to win it. Everyone, or at least the men, really wants to be celebrating this, but in fact it's Romanian Communist Party Day which is taking centre stage in the works canteen.

At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet the Germans. A crazy road movie starts following the bear.

A Nazi Luger Pistol from W.W.2 with dark and mystical powers re-emerges in modern day Bucharest and is taken to London. En-route it falls into the hands of a Media Mogul intent on using its power to bring the return of the Forth Reich through Technology and Music .

Jonathan Vogel (Guillaume Depardieu) would like to turn back the clock and undo the accident that led to his disability and destroyed his life. When he learns that Stivlas Karr (Carlo Brandt), a well-known professor and geneticist, has developed a gene therapy for regenerating the human body, he makes an appointment with him for some clinical tests. But the therapy doesnt go according to Professor Karrs plan and leads to unexpected results. Jonathan, whose life is now in danger, has become aware that there is only one person who can help him: Alice (Alysson Paradis), the professors daughter.

Velicanu considers himself a fulfilled person. He's got money, a new villa, married a younger woman and has a son from a previous marriage. Before the holidays he has to leave everything in order, but things start to get complicated. The crisis at the end of the day make him wonder whatever he is indeed a happy, fulfilled person...

Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress Gabriela live like two strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous contrast to their staid, passionless lives, characters in a constant state of sexual arousal surround them. Their libidinous teen son, whose hilarious voiceover commentary intermittently provides important narrative information, prides himself on being the high school stud and aspires to a career in porn. Gabriela's sexy employee switches boyfriends the way she changes clothes. And despite being married, Gabriel's colleague is working his way through the female members of their orchestra. Ultimately, the two Gabys find their virtual affairs reconnect them with their own desires, but in a way less movie-fantasy and more satisfyingly real-life. Written by Palm Springs Internation Film Festival

Oxygen is a free re-enactment of a real case: a man who tried to cross the Danube illegally using an oxygen cylinder, to escape the communist Romania.

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.

Security guard Aurel (Andi Vasluianu) and his wife Irene have a moderately happy marriage and a moderately comfortable lifestyle in urban Romania. Irene takes a working trip to Cairo and returns invigorated with the swell of success. She sets out again and never returns. What follows is both predictable and unpredictable. Aurel, and the audience, are suspicious of the official explanation of her death so the foundation is laid for the traditional who-dunnit. Aurel proceeds on an emotional search against all odds.

루마니아의 작은 마을의 ‘이안쿠’와 ‘마라’는 마을에서도 유명한 닭살 커플이다. 둘의 결혼식은 마을 최고의 성대한 파티로 시끌벅적하게 마련되지만 하필 결혼식 당일 스탈린의 갑작스러운 죽음! 소련군은 일주일간 애도기간을 선포하며 파티, 집회, 웃음을 절대 금지시킨다. 눈물을 머금고 뿔뿔이 흩어진 하객들…하지만 동이 틀 무렵, 마을 사람들의 조용하고 분산한 움직임이 시작되고, 세상에서 가장 조용한 비밀 결혼식을 시작하는데…

A story which might take place in anybody's life. The death of a person starts a chain reaction which involves the neighbours. A satire of the world we live in based on a true story.

Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Klein's "dog", entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. "Adam Resurrected" is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.

Cover-boy racconta l’amicizia fra Ioan (Eduard Gabia) e Michele (Luca Lionello) l’uno rumeno e l’altro italiano. Due mondi che casualmente s’incontrano: l’esperienza di chi, figlio della rivoluzione post comunista, è fuggito dal proprio paese alla ricerca di un futuro migliore e l’esperienza di chi, precario, vive la crisi del lavoro occidentale.

Radu Ana is born on a Friday, the 13th and is the most unlucky man on Earth. Things, however, are subject to change.

Cristian Nemescu's comedy unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet, transporting a plethora of weapons across the country -- without official documents, and equipped only with the verbal consent of the Romanian authorities. The transport thus grows intensely vulnerable.

On Christmas Eve, a taxi driver takes home a man returning from working abroad.

Tacke, an old graveyard digger, finds out he has only two months left to live. This is the moment he discovers he does want something out of life: a glamorous funeral service in the cemetery's « downtown » area, where he had spotted for a long time an splendidly situated burial site. Everything goes smoothly, especially that the town's luxury funeral home has just acquired Lady Di's hearth. Tacke has some money for the funeral ceremony, he also has some friends who would mourn for him, but he is out of luck: the funeral site he was hoping to acquire was just given to somebody else.

삼십대 후반의 남성 태비, 그는 어느 날부터인가 그의 딸 알렉산드라가 더 이상 그를 “아빠” 라고 부르지 않음을 깨닫게 된다. - 2008 오버하우젠국제영화제 최우수 단편영화상

A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set.

첩보원 생활을 접고 기업가로 활동하고 있는 잭. 바쁜 일상중에 어느덧 아내가 죽은지 5년이 되간다. 바쁘다는 핑계로 딸 아만다와 함께했던 시간이 없던차에 딸과 조지와 함께 아내의 고향인 루마니아 여행을 계획한다. 하지만 루마니아 부쿠레슈티 공항에 도착하자마자 아만다는 누군가에 의해 납치당하고, 조지가 탄 차는 폭발하고 만다. 한편, 만든 장본인들도 두려워할 만큼 치명적인 바이러스 MK울트라 프로그램이 있다. 이 바이러스에 노출되면 각종 질병에 무방비 상태가 되고 6개월에서 1년 사이에 죽고 만다. 또한 바이러스에 언제 걸렸는지 조차 추적할 수도 없기 때문에 치명적인 이것을 조지가 첩보부에서 빼돌려 한 몫을 단단히 챙기려했던 것이다. 잭이 최고가를 부르는 쪽에 팔아 넘기려 했기 때문에 KGB의 새 지국인 FSB는 잭이 그 물건을 가지고 있는 줄 알고 잭을 쫓는다. 조지는 잭이 항상 PDA를 가지고 다니는 것을 알기에 PDA에 그 바이러스를 숨겼던 것이다. 살상용으로 비밀리에 만들어진 바이러스를 둘러싼 음모라는 것을 알게 된 잭은 딸을 되찾기 위해 나서는데...

Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.

Andrei, a 13 year old teenager, living on Bucharest outskirts, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he fell in love with.

A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.

Mr. Lazarescu is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. When he starts feeling unusually ill, he first seeks painkillers from his neighbors. It soon becomes apparent that Lazarescu is indeed sick, and an ambulance arrives with a nurse who has a few ideas about what could be the problem. However, a major traffic accident and poor organization leaves little room in Romanian hospitals for the fading Lazarescu.

The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption.

고립된 대지 위에 선 외딴집. 메리가 친구 알렉스의 집을 방문한다. 도착 첫날 밤, 피에 굶주려 거리를 배회하던 의문의 남자가 집에 찾아오고 알렉스의 가족은 모두 살해된다. 알렉스를 데리고 어디론가 떠나는 살인마. 메리는 알렉스를 구하기 위해 그를 뒤따른다. 처절한 싸움 끝에 그를 죽이고, 알렉스를 구한 메리. 하지만, 알렉스는 미친 듯이 칼을 휘두르며 그녀를 거부한다. "저리가, 니가 우리 가족을 죽였어!" 도대체, 누가 살인자인가? 두 소녀와 한 남자, 세 사람의 1:1 지능살인, 그 비밀은 무엇일까?

20세기 최고의 오페라 가수로 꼽히는 천상의 목소리 '디바' 마리아 칼라스(화니 아르당 분). 세기의 스캔들로 전세계를 떠들썩하게 했던 선박왕 오나시스와의 사랑도, 그토록 아름다웠던 자신의 목소리까지 모두 세월 속에 묻어버린 채 남은 여생을 은둔하며 지내려 한다. 이때 그녀 앞에 나타난 오랜 친구이자 공연기획자인 래리(제레미 아이언스 분)는 그녀의 예술성과 천재성을 다시 한번 세상에 되돌려 놓기 위해 놀라운 제안을 한다. 바로 현대과학의 기술로 그녀 전성기 때의 목소리를 되살려 오페라 영화를 제작하자는 것. 절대 노래하지 않겠다고 결심한 그녀는 단호히 제의를 거절하나 집요한 래리의 설득 아래 다시는 기억하고 싶지 않은 마지막 공연실황에 젊은 시절 목소리를 덧입힌 편집본을 본 순간, 다시금 노래에 대한 전율이 되살아나면서 그의 제안을 수락하기에 이른다. 영화화 될 작품은 불후의 명작 오페라<카르멘>. 그녀는 지난 사랑의 아픔과 예술에 대한 정열을 다시 한번 매혹의 집시여인 '카르멘'이 되어 쏟아내기 시작한다. 칼라스의 절친한 친구이자 베테랑 저널리스트인 새라(조안 플로라이트 분)도 진실된 마음으로 그녀가 재기할 수 있도록 조언을 아끼지 않고 기꺼이 그녀를 돕는다. 그녀를 잊지 않은 팬들과 관계자들의 성원에 힘입어 작품은 완성되고 성공적인 평가를 받게 되는 칼라스. 기획자인 래리는 더없이 만족하며 차기작을 운운하지만 성공의 기쁨도 잠시, 칼라스는 정직하지 못한 예술작품이란 생각에 또 한번의 고비를 맞는다.

약혼한 커플 루치와 소리나는 세 들어 살던 집에서 쫓겨나 길거리에 나앉게 된다. 소리나는 돌아가신 아버지가 하늘에서 메시지를 보낼 것이라고 하며 루치와 함께 아버지의 무덤을 찾는데, 하늘에서 떨어진 것은 빈 병, 그것도 루치의 머리 위로 떨어진다. 그들은 친절한 프랑스인 제롬의 차를 얻어 타고 병원으로 가게 된다. 루치의 머리는 다 나았지만, 소리나는 구질구질한 생활에서 탈피하기 위해 제롬의 아파트로 거처를 옮기고 만다. 한편 생활고를 해결하기 위해 맥주병 모양의 의상을 입고 광고 전단을 나눠 주던 루치는 핸드폰 의상을 입은 미하엘라를 만나게 된다. 미하엘라는 루치에게 관심을 보이지만 이를 눈치채지 못하는 루치. 결국 미하엘라는 부모가 원하는 대로 국제결혼을 하기 위해 외국에서 찾아온 신랑 후보를 만난다

독일의 유대인 학살에 침묵한 ‘교황청’ 위선에 가득찬 기득권을 고발한 두 남자. 나치제도 그리고 바티칸과 연합군들의 외교. 이 두 가지 시스템 안에서 투쟁하는 두 남자가 있다. 컬츠 게르스타인은 유태인 집단 처형장의 책임자이지만 그는 가족의 목숨을 걸고 이런 학살을 연합군과 교황 그리고 독일 시민에게 알려주려 애를 쓴다. 그리고 사제 리카르도는 자기 목숨을 걸고 나치제도에 반항한 모든 교회인을 대표한다. 이 영화에서는 알면서도 모르는 척 하던 교황청을 비롯한 모든 권력의 중심부에서 자신의 안위만을 염려하던 기득권 세력들의 위선과 허식 감추어진 양심을 지닌 사람들의 냉담함을 재판한다.

While visiting a museum, two siblings Ben and Kim a fierce electrical storm creates a passage between the real world and worlds within the paintings. They are magically whisked through time to the 1600's and find they must square off against a wicked magician and also locate a valuable jewel in order to return to the present day.

When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.

When a sixteen year-old boy and his two young siblings set off on a quest to find their missing parents, their search leads them to a ghost town in the middle of the desert. They soon discover that this is no ordinary tourist spot. In fact, according to the maps, it doesn't exist at all! Finding their way into this mysterious place, the kids must confront the sinister force that dwells beneath it in order to rescue their parents - and save themselves.

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat.

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.

The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.

Toni and Simina are two lonely souls on the road who meet by chance in a supermarket parking lot. They immediately like each other and decide to continue their journey together.