Șerban Pavlu

Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work' video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.

A frothy comedy about life in the corporation, about the challenges of building a career and those of consolidating and motivating a team. The film, a satire of corporate life, reveals the events of a team building in which the robotic corporativism unleash themselves and unleash themselves by showing their human side.

Cosmin plays a tennis game with 3 friends. He looks at the clock and starts panicking: he is late to the Registry Office, to a wedding- his wedding, with his ex-wife, who he had divorced without his friends knowing. Everything starts in 2007 when the real-estate bubble reaches its peak. Cosmin gifts Reli a land on the edge of a lake, for their wedding anniversary. He plans to build 7 villas, sell them and win 1 million Euros.

Six shorts by Radu Jude:Plastic Semiotic,To Punish, To Discipline,The Potemkinists, Memories of the eastern front,Caricaturana and The Marshal's Two Executions

Um dia, a adolescente Magda oferece seu colar extremamente caro para uma criança doente no hospital onde ela é voluntária. Seu pai tem certeza de que ela está mentindo novamente, e quando Magda prova sua inocência, ele se sente envergonhado e culpado, mas é incapaz de admitir que estava errado. Consertar essa relação caótica entre pai e filha não será nada fácil, e as decisões que ambos tomam levam a consequências irreversíveis.

Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamt of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire – a popular French character epitomizing the unscrupulous swindler – as represented in the 101 lithographs of the series Caricaturana by Honoré Daumier. First, a montage of the gestures as Eisenstein envisaged. Then, original texts are added to the caricatures. And finally, we took the liberty to use them as a commentary to some current news.

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.

Ileana gives up trying to heal her sleepwalking condition and decides to embrace the sleepwalker inside. With her lover, Lia, as a guide, she stumbles upon a fairytale ending.

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.

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.

Quando o seu melhor amigo e parceiro morre de forma suspeita, um empresário de meia-idade parte em busca da verdade e descobre mentiras e segredos perturbadores.

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.

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.

Sporadic gunshots echo among the ruins of a village which, though abandoned, is an objective of great import for the Romanian government. This forces two young men to lead a hard negotiation, both for the fate of the settlement and for their own future.

"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.

Four people meet in a bar. Two of them know exactly why they are there. The third has a pretty good idea. The fourth is in for a bit of a shock...

Algumas semanas depois que sua esposa Ioana morre em um acidente de carro, bêbado e sozinho na noite em que ele completar 42 anos, Alexandru recebe uma visita. Sebastian, um homem tímido e mais jovem, é amante de Ioana nos últimos cinco meses. Sebastian tem um pedido ultrajante: ele quer Alexandru para ajudá-lo a superar o desespero causado pela morte de Ioana.

Seven months after their divorce, Ducu pays Maria one last visit...

A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.

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 adolescente entediado conta os dias que faltam para um eclipse solar, até que trava amizade com um recém-chegado que o alicia num esquema arriscado.

Três homens de uma cidade do interior precisam urgentemente de dinheiro e decidem comprar um bilhete de loteria. Eles ganham na loteria, mas logo após o bilhete é roubado. Os três homens desesperados viajam para encontrar seu bilhete de loteria perdido e experimentam todos os tipos de aventuras. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.

One girl. One car. One night. No coincidence.

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.

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.

Three men go into a pub. The first man has too many questions. The second man has the perfect plan. The third man has no chance.

A scholar of mathematics would like to publish his research outside Ceaucescu's Romania, but getting it through the border and the State censorship is not easy.

When a flood strikes Costache's village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help and advice from his neighbors. The village is all he has left, except for an estranged son now living in Tokyo. But when his son Ticu hears of his mother's death and father's plight, he arrives unexpectedly with his Japanese wife and son to bring Costache back home with him. This will not be simple. Ticu fled Romania with many issues left unresolved, the biggest being his relationship with his father. Now there is a whole new family for Costache to deal with, old scores to settle, and painful goodbyes to say.

Bucharest, 2009. Twenty years after Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but quite immature guy for his late 30's finds out from his Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he could be the father of a son he didn't know about. Starting his own secret investigation, Tavi is caught by a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the life's of the ones close to him. For the first time in his life, Tavi is forced to take really mature decisions.

The film tells the story of a generation that cannot adapt to the reality post-revolution. Nostalgic Emilia tries to keep alive the golden age.

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

One night, just before the holidays, in an empty park, two small-time thugs hold up a strange looking man. Where's the Christmas spirit?

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.

O circo é um lugar onde a magia acontece, mas nem sempre. Quando um estrangeiro é obrigado a assumir a sua gestão, o apocalipse pode começar. O Eurochannel viaja para a Romênia para atender a uma companhia de circo hilariante em sua busca para proteger seu ato principal: O Urso. Dirigido por Dan Chisu, uma das principais figuras do cinema romeno, O Urso é uma comédia com os ingredientes certos para um filme de comédia. Um herói, um urso e um gerente sem qualificação levam os espectadores a todos os tipos de aventuras impertinentes em Bucareste para salvar o circo.

Delia, uma adolescente simples de uma pequena cidade do interior da Romênia, entra numa competição de uma marca de refrigerantes e ganha um carro. Mas quando seus pais a levam para Bucareste para filmar um comercial para a empresa, sua sorte começa a mudar.

Esta celebração sofre uma reviravolta invulgar quando a morte do líder soviético José Estaline marca o casamento de um jovem casal romeno com um luto silencioso.

Em uma pequena cidade, Emil (Cosmin Selesi) fica desempregado quando a fábrica onde foi turner fecha. Depois que sua esposa e ela perde o emprego, os dois decidem emigrar para a Austrália. Emil vende seu apartamento e carro comprado no casamento, em seguida, mudou-se com sua família para seus sogros no país. Emil vai a Bucareste para mudar leões em dólares. A casa é abordado por um cara Exchange (Andi Vasluianu) que dá um curso melhor. O medo de que a polícia, os dois são logo partilha e valutistul desaparece.

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...

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.

In this very black comedy about ill-suited neighbors united by marriage, Niki is a former colonel in the Romanian army whose daughter is married to the son of Flo, an aging Bohemian who is full of schemes for the “new” Romania. As the young couple prepares to emigrate to the U.S., Niki is obliged to interact with Flo, whom he finds totally unbearable.

A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.

Feature film.

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.