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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Após uma experiência mal sucedida em fazer negócios com o governo, dois amigos moradores de Miami Beach, que levam uma vida tranquila e que só queriam dinheiro para sustentar seu vício em maconha, descobrem que existe um mercado ilícito em expansão com a venda de armas para o exterior. Ao fechar um contrato de 300 milhões de dólares, eles terão de ir para o Afeganistão acompanhar a explosiva transação pessoalmente.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A história de Adam Stein, um homem que viveu o drama de ser judeu na Alemanha nazista e sobreviveu aos traumas dos campos de concentração. Sua mente ficou afetada e agora está internado em um hospital psiquiátrico, no qual tentam reconduzí-lo a uma existência o mais normal possível para quem viveu os horrores do Holocausto. Mas Adam não é um homem comum nem um doente comum. Ele é muito inteligente para confundir os seus médicos e perceber o que está além da realidade.

Um encontro de dois mundos distantes: Ioan, um jovem romeno, filho da Revolução Pós-Comunista, que sai de seu país em busca de um futuro melhor, e Michele, um jovem italiano que come pelas beiradas de uma sociedade ocidental incapaz de oferecer emprego a boa parte de sua juventude. No plano de fundo desta amizade, há um Ocidente que de um lado ainda está sentindo o impacto do colapso da ideologia comunista. E que de outro é refém das garras do mito capitalista que cada vez mais gera competitividade cruel e intensifica a desigualdade social. Ioan conhece uma fotógrafa famosa e confunde exploração com amor, o que finalmente reforça sua amizade com Michele e o leva ao fim de sua busca.

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

A Califórnia Dreamin' desvela-se tendo como pano de fundo a Guerra do Kosovo, por volta de 1999. Um comboio da NATO circula através de uma aldeia romena, transportando uma pletora de armas através do país - sem documentos oficiais e equipados apenas com o consentimento verbal das autoridades romenas. O transporte, portanto, torna-se intensamente vulnerável.

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.

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...

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

Jack Foster (Steven Seagal), ex-agente da CIA, volta a ação e precisa desvendar uma trama de espionagem internacional para salvar sua filha. Além disso, Foster vai tentar evitar que um vírus mortal caia nas mãos dos seus inimigos.

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.

Benjamin Barker passou 15 anos afastado de Londres, após ser obrigado a deixar sua esposa e sua filha. Ele retorna à cidade ávido por vingança, agora usando a alcunha de Sweeney Todd. Logo ele decide ir à sua antiga barbearia, agora transformada em uma loja de fachada para vender as tortas feitas pela sra. Lovett. Com o apoio dela Todd volta a trabalhar como barbeiro, numa sala acima da loja. Porém o grande objetivo de Todd é se vingar do juiz Turpin, que o enviou para a Austrália sob falsas acusações para que pudesse roubar sua mulher Lucy e sua filha.

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.

Na Segunda Guerra Mundial, numa zona rural da França, Deming, um soldado violento e selvagem, e Losey com seu bom coração e as memórias de um grande amor, sucumbem aos horrores da guerra e encontram uma maneira de desertar do exército americano. Completamente perdidos, sob um rigoroso inverno, eles se abrigam num prédio abandonado. Pouco depois, são surpreendidos por um casal, que traz com eles as crianças do orfanato onde davam aulas. Treinadas para sobreviver a qualquer custo, as crianças vão se juntar aos quatro adultos para enfrentar uma última e aterrorizante batalha, quando o prédio é cercado por um gigantesco tanque de guerra e um pelotão do exército alemão. Escrito e dirigido por Jeff Burr, Combate Na Escuridão é uma aterrorizante história sobre a condição humana submetida às mais terríveis provas. Que só uma grande guerra pode gerar.

Marie e Alexia são amigas e companheiras na universidade. Num final de semana, Alexia leva Marie para a fazenda de seus pais, mas elas não imaginam que um inferno baterá a sua porta, e que a ida até a fazenda trará conseqüências drásticas e sombrias.

A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.

"Ocidente" é uma comédia amarga sobre as pessoas que querem emigrar da Roménia, e sobre aqueles que ficam para trás. O filme tem uma estrutura rica e interessante: existem três histórias diferentes - com a duração de uma semana no filme - que se cruzam, interligam e acontecem no mesmo período. As personagens influenciam a vida uns dos outros, às vezes mesmo sem saber. As personagens principais de uma história tornam-se personagens secundárias noutra. Ao mesmo tempo, cenas da primeira parte do filme trazem factos inesperados quando vistas a segunda ou a terceira vez. As histórias não têm apenas um fim: a primeira história termina em cada uma das terceiras partes num ponto diferente, sugerindo soluções radicalmente diferentes para as personagens. A maneira em que o realizador encaixa o tempo e liga eventos muitas vezes produz resultados tematicamente inesperados.

Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) é um oficial do Terceiro Reich que trabalhou na elaboração do Zyklon B, gás mortífero originalmente desenvolvido para a matança de animais mas usado para exterminar milhares de judeus durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial. Gerstein se revolta com o que testemunha e tenta informar os aliados sobre as atrocidades nos campos de concentração. Católico, busca chamar a atenção do Vaticano, mas suas denúncias são ignoradas pelo alto clero. Apenas um jovem jesuíta lhe dá ouvidos e o ajuda a organizar uma campanha para que o Papa (Marcel Iures) quebre o silêncio e se manifeste contra as violências ocorridas em nome de uma suposta supremacia racial.

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.