Dana Bunescu

The film follows the life and work of Romanian visual artist ION GRIGORESCU, one of the pioneers of experimental art in Europe. The film discusses our evanescent existence, morality, and spirituality and interrogates the possible extent of the inglorious recollection of our own biography.

Traditional Roma-communities of Romania are culturally rich communities, ruled with complicated rituals and customs. Marriage is maybe the most set in stone such custom, with everything about it being under very strict community control. What keeps everyone alert is Roma marriage’s highest stake: fertility and conceiving boys.

Gheorghe Blondă is the analog film laboratory technician from the National Film University of Bucharest. Under the pretext of modernizing the university, he is to be replaced and have his life-long career end. With the filming taking place at the same time as the anti-corruption protests in 2017, Romania, the film brings to light the ways in which the university, a public institution, mirrors the autorities that rule the country. Despite the leading board of the university claiming that it's a natural technological transition, Gheorghe's struggle to keep his job becomes a matter of life or death.

Ducu is a a 45-year-old Romanian writer facing a midlife crisis. He leaves Bucharest to be part of a creative residence in Berlin and in an attempt to rebuild his life. He swings between two countries and two women: Andra, his hot-tempered wife, who wants a divorce, and Giulia, Ducu's love from his youth, who lives in an eco-village in Germany - Lebensdorf. Looking for an answer, he goes through a series of strange, funny and even eye-opening events.

Emi, uma professora, vê sua carreira e reputação ameaçadas depois que uma fita de sexo pessoal vazou na Internet. Forçada a encontrar os pais exigindo sua demissão, Emi se recusa a ceder à pressão deles. Radu Jude (Aferim!) Oferece uma mistura incendiária de forma não convencional, humor irreverente e comentários mordazes sobre hipocrisia e preconceito em nossas sociedades.

Em 29 de junho de 1941, os judeus da cidade de Iasi, na Romênia, foram presos e agredidos, tiveram suas lojas e casas saqueadas e a maioria dos homens foram alvejados ou amontoados em trens, onde morreram asfixiados. Enquanto os alemães participaram desse massacre étnico, a maior parte dos perpetradores eram policiais, militares e civis romenos. Com uma abordagem radical e reduzida, o filme lista os nomes daqueles que morreram, ilustrando-os com fotos de passaportes e álbuns de família, enquanto relatos são ouvidos através de uma narração. Por meio da repetição, do acúmulo e da variação, os cineastas tornam palpável a escala da atrocidade e dão forma concreta ao número de vítimas.

Otto, a seventeen-year-old punk, becomes involved in the social services investigation of his girlfriend Laura’s death. He is caught up in a vicious circle created by his parents, his mute grandpa and Laura’s mother. Laura is still part of his life through video recordings that he edits constantly, trying to make sense of the events. Through this process, Otto must take his portion of the responsibility for what happened.

A história de Mugur Calinescu, um adolescente romeno que pichou mensagens de protesto contra o regime do ditador Nicolae Ceausescu e foi posteriormente preso, interrogado e aniquilado pela polícia secreta.

Poet, musician, intellectual, and committed communist Nina Cassian wrestled for decades with the central contradiction of her life: how to reconcile her artistic ideals with the strict censorship imposed by Romania’s Communist Party — a tension that put her at odds with the totalitarian Ceaușescu regime and eventually led to her exile. Interweaving archival footage with firsthand interviews, this thought-provoking documentary illuminates the complex relationships between art, politics, and personal truths.

Após um trágico incêndio em um clube romeno, em 30 de outubro de 2015, as vítimas de queimaduras começam a morrer em hospitais devido a ferimentos que não são fatais. Uma equipe de jornalistas investigativos entra em ação, descobrindo a corrupção em massa do sistema de saúde e das instituições do Estado, abordando questões sobre propaganda e manipulação que até hoje afetam não apenas a Romênia, mas também sociedades em todo o mundo.

Com a família a tentar adaptar-se à Roménia do pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, o filho mais novo de Ilie Moromete é obrigado a desistir do liceu entre atitudes inconstantes.

Com a família a tentar adaptar-se à Roménia do pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, o filho mais novo de Ilie Moromete é obrigado a desistir do liceu entre atitudes inconstantes.

Com a família a tentar adaptar-se à Roménia do pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, o filho mais novo de Ilie Moromete é obrigado a desistir do liceu entre atitudes inconstantes.

The film confronts two different views of the execution of General Ion Antonescu, Romania's leader during the Second World War.

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

A trio of quirky lifelong friends create a makeshift family, but their tight bond is tested when one of them falls in love with a writer.

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.

Um documentário-ensaio que mostra uma coleção de fotografias de uma pequena cidade romena nas décadas de 1930 e 1940. A trilha sonora, composta principalmente por excertos tirados do diário de um médico judeu da mesma época, retrata o que as fotografias não fazem: o aumento do antisemitismo e, eventualmente, a descrição angustiante da perseguição romena dos judeus, um assunto raramente falou no contemporâneo Romênia.

Toma conhece Ana enquanto ambos estudam literatura na universidade. Ela tem um leve transtorno mental e sofre de ataques de pânico. Toma a segue por cada um desses lugares escuros onde ela habita. Ele parece estar no controle do relacionamento, mas, na verdade, apenas gravita ao redor de uma mulher que não consegue entender. Quando Ana supera seus medos, Toma permanece sozinho, juntando as peças desse quebra-cabeça e tentando compreender a tempestade pela qual passou.

Toma conhece Ana enquanto ambos estudam literatura na universidade. Ela tem um leve transtorno mental e sofre de ataques de pânico. Toma a segue por cada um desses lugares escuros onde ela habita. Ele parece estar no controle do relacionamento, mas, na verdade, apenas gravita ao redor de uma mulher que não consegue entender. Quando Ana supera seus medos, Toma permanece sozinho, juntando as peças desse quebra-cabeça e tentando compreender a tempestade pela qual passou.

Cristiana tem 30 anos e vem de uma clássica família burguesa. Ela trabalha no seu doutorado, encontra-se com os amigos e tem uma relação amorosa com Dan, um homem casado. Quando seus pais se mudam, deixando o apartamento para ela, a jovem vai atrás de algo com que sonha desde criança: ter um cachorro.

Na Europa, no início do século XIX, um guarda e seu filho atravessam o continente em busca de um escravo em fuga. Pelo caminho, descobrem diversas diferenças culturais, e muitos preconceitos que os povos alimentam uns contra os outros. Vencedor do Prêmio de Melhor Diretor (para Radu Jude) no Festival de Berlim, em 2015. Representante da Romênia na disputa pelo Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro, em 2016.

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

A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.

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.

A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.

In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer.

Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.

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.

A partir de vídeos oficiais e privados, idealizados pelo próprio ditador romeno, o realizador traça um percurso da ascensão e queda de Nicolae Ceausescu.

Ana is 30 years old and lives with her parents. As her ex-husband takes their daughter and her nagging mother to the countryside, she prepares for a laidback evening with her friends. Soon she comes to realize she lost her cell phone which prevents her from receiving a much awaited call from her previous night's stand. Her friends, Iulia, Andrei and Marius, arrive and try to watch a movie. The screening is frequently interrupted by an increasingly annoying and rather absurd dialogue that takes place between the thief/finder of the cell phone and Ana.

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.

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.

3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.

Em 1987, nos últimos dias do comunismo, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) e Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) dividem um quarto num dormitório estudantil. Elas são colegas de classe na universidade de uma pequena cidade romena. Gabita está grávida e o aborto é ilegal no país. Otilia aluga um quarto num hotel barato. Lá elas recebem um certo Sr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), chamado para resolver a questão. Mas, ao saber que Gabita está com a gravidez mais adiantada do que havia informado, Sr. Bebe aumenta as exigências para o serviço. Ele cobra um preço que as duas não estão preparadas para pagar.

Em 1987, nos últimos dias do comunismo, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) e Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) dividem um quarto num dormitório estudantil. Elas são colegas de classe na universidade de uma pequena cidade romena. Gabita está grávida e o aborto é ilegal no país. Otilia aluga um quarto num hotel barato. Lá elas recebem um certo Sr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), chamado para resolver a questão. Mas, ao saber que Gabita está com a gravidez mais adiantada do que havia informado, Sr. Bebe aumenta as exigências para o serviço. Ele cobra um preço que as duas não estão preparadas para pagar.

Tavi, a forty-year-old divorced father, comes to his ex-wife's home to repair his four-year-old daughter's bike. He realizes with amazement that Alexandra does not call him "Daddy" any more. He asks an explanation from his ex-wife...

Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories.

O Sr Lazarescu já se encontra com 63 anos e vive sozinho em um apartamento com seus gatos. Certa manhã levanta se sentindo mal, com dores na cabeça e na barriga, desconfiando que há algum problema com uma cirurgia de úlcera feita há muitos anos atrás. O idoso pede uma ambulância para leva-lo ao hospital mas dois problemas farão com que não seja aceito em nenhum hospital para onde tentam leva-lo: um acidente acontecido na cidade entre um caminhão e um ônibus; e o cheiro de bebida que fará os médicos responsabilizarem o doente por sua condição.

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.

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.

A young TV reporter would like to shoot a program about a former political prisoner nicknamed The Pharaoh, who spent forty years in Siberian exile. She manages to locate a former lover, his sister, and his onetime cellmate, but questions still remain...

Andrei is now a truck driver, but in one of his travels to Germany, he must become once again a boxer just for one night at the middleweight category.