Maia Morgenstern

Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love.

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.

비좁은 기찻길에 늘어선 빨랫줄, 은퇴를 앞둔 기관사 ‘눌란’은 기차에 딸려온 물건의 주인을 찾아주며 하루를 마무리하곤 한다. 여느 때와 다름없이 기차를 청소하던 날, 그가 기차 앞머리에서 발견한 것은...? 하늘색 레이스 브라...!

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.

버스킹하는 바이올리니스트 조니와 예술학교에 갓 입학한 무용수 루비. 전혀 만날 일 없을 것만 같던 이들은 조니의 바이올린 도난 사건으로 가까워지고, 조니의 아랫집 이웃 스위치 스텝스 멤버들과 친해지면서 상금 2만 5천불의 경연대회에 참여하기로 마음 먹는데…

여행 작가 미리암과 폴은 루마니아 취재 여행 중이다. 미리암은 의문의 죽음을 당해 루마니아 묘가 있다는 이야기를 듣고 아버지의 묘를 찾아간다. 그러던중 도둑을 맞아 모든 소지품을 빼앗기고 만다. 길을 해매 다 아버지의 친구였다는 보그단 일행을 만나게 되고 거기서 머물게 된다. 하지만 보그단 일행은 아버지에게 원한을 가지고 복수를 위해 미리암을 납치하게 되고.. 알수없는게 곳에 갇혀 고문을 당하게 되고 결국 폴은 죽임을 당하게 되는데..

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.

Centers on the Klein family, who live in a remote house in the mountains. Considered the black sheep, youngest son Jean is thrown out. Angry and threatening, he arrives at Nils and Ida's chalet for a hunting expedition. The next day, he learns how to kill. The following night, his mother's car is set on fire and he is blamed. He disappears into the mountains with a gun. On the third day, it pours down with rain and, in the evening, a storm brews. Shut up in their house, the Klein family await with dread the return of Jean, who will challenge them, weapon in hand.

Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woman. He becomes for her a source of both love and suffering through his constant mysterious departures and reappearances.

Contemporary story of young people in search of happiness which one imagines coming from unseen meetings with people "hooked" on the Internet, the acquisition of works of art, from driving a luxury car in psychedelic music, theater, of money, for love.

It depicts the relationship between an elderly woman and her caregiver.

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.

Although it was shot on the set of director Mel Gibson's controversial epic The Passion of the Christ, this thought-provoking documentary is not about the making of the movie. Rather, filmmakers Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari delve into the nature of divinity and spiritual beliefs through revealing interviews with Gibson and members of his cast and crew -- including stars Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci.

마지막 만찬 후에 겟세마니 동산에 올라간 예수는 그 곳에서 사탄의 유혹을 물리친다. 그러나 그 곳에서 예수 그리스도는 유다에게 배신 당해 체포되어 예루살렘으로 끌려온다. 바리새인들은 예수 그리스도를 신성모독죄로 단죄하고, 재판에서 사형을 선고한다. 팔레스타인의 로마 제독, 빌라도는 바리새인들의 주장을 들으며 그의 앞에 끌려온 예수 그리스도를 어떻게 처리할지 고민한다. 자신이 정치적 위기에 직면해 있음을 깨달은 빌라도는 이 문제를 헤롯왕에게 의논한다. 헤롯왕은 빌라도에게 예수 그리스도를 돌려보낸다. 이에 빌라도가 군중들에게 그리스도와 죄수 바라바 중 누구를 석방할지 결정하도록 하자, 군중들은 바라바에게 자유를 예수 그리스도에게 처형을 주장한다. 로마 병사들로부터 처참하게 채찍질을 당한 그리스도는 빌라도 앞에 다시 끌려오게 된다. 빌라도는 만신창이가 된 예수 그리스도를 군중에게 보이며, ‘이 정도면 충분하지 않은가?’라고 묻지만 피에 굶주린 군중들은 만족하지 못한다. 딜레마에 빠진 빌라도는 군중들이 원하는 대로 처리하도록 부하들에게 명령한다. 그리하여 예수 그리스도는 예루살렘 거리를 지나 골고다 언덕까지 십자가를 메고 가도록 명령을 받는다. 골고다 언덕 위에서 예수 그리스도는 십자가에 못 박히게 되고 그 곳에서 마지막 유혹에 직면한다. 그의 아버지가 그를 버렸을 지도 모른다는 두려움 때문이었다. 하지만 예수 그리스도는 두려움을 극복하고 어머니인 마리아를 바라보며 그녀만이 완전히 이해할 수 있는 마지막 한 마디를 하고 죽는다. “다 이루었도다.”“내 영혼을 아버지 손에 맡기나이다.”...

Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.

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.

어릴 적부터 동생 라두(Teen Radu: 닐스 브링크스 분)와 아버지(Dracula's Father: 댄 바다로 분)에게 무술을 배우며 자란 블라드 드라큐라(Teen Vlad Dracula: 세바스찬 루피아 분)는 터키 치하의 루마니아에서 터키의 왕에게 잡혀간 아버지가 생매장 당했다는 사실을 알고 복수를 다짐한다. 터키군에게서 풀려난 블라드(Vlad the Impaler: 루돌프 마틴 분)는 아버지의 죽음에 대한 복수와 라두(Radu: 마이클 슈튼 분)를 구하겠다는 결심으로 헝가리 왕에게 도움을 청하러 간다. 그곳에서 운명의 여인 리디아(Lidia: 제인 마치 분)를 만나 결혼을 하며 루마니아의 왕위를 이어받는다. 블라드는 아버지를 죽인 자들에 대한 강한 적개심과 복수심은 더해져만 갔고 그로인한 복수의 전쟁은 그칠 날이 없었다. 그 와중에 라두는 터키 술탄의 충복이 되어 블라드의 목을 향해 칼을 겨누게 되는 비극적인 상황이 계속된다. 리디아는 블라드를 향한 마음과 사랑은 더욱 깊어갔지만 터키 대군과의 전쟁에서 블라드의 사망 소식을 듣고 성벽에서 몸을 던져 명을 끊는데.

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.

An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.

"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?

쌩 레미에서 출생한 노스트라다무스(Nostradamus : 체키 카리오 분)는 아비뇽 대학에서 다방면에 걸쳐 많은 지식을 습득한 뒤 몽뺄리에로 옮겨 의학을 공부한다. 16세기 초 흑사병이 유럽을 휩쓸자, 노스트라다무스는 위생을 강조함과 동시에 장미 꽃잎으로 제조한 환약을 개발 많은 생명을 구해낸다. 그러나 다른 사람들의 생명을 구하느라 동분서주하는 동안 자신의 아내(줄리아 오몬드 분)와 두 아이가 흑사병으로 죽게 되고 노스트라다무스는 정처없이 이곳저곳을 떠돌게 된다. 이때 종교 재판소로부터 미움과 시기를 사게되고 영화는 긴박하게 돌아간다. 형이 있는 고향으로 돌아와 의사로 활동하던 중 만난 과부 앤(Anne : Assumpta Serna 분)과 재혼을 한 그는 당시 프랑스 국왕인 앙리 2세의 죽음을 예언하고 야망과 복수심에 불타는 캐서린 왕비의 보호아래 미래의 재난을 알려 사람들에게 경각심을 불러 일으키고자 예언서를 출판하는데...

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.