Procuror Socaciu
Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist.
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 night. Dozens of stories. A city. Lică, a taxi driver, is an all knowing guy, while Liviu, his friend, also a taxi driver keeps a lot to himself. They are completely different and their ideas about life and people only meet when they are eating and drinking at the bar. They are frustrated with their jobs. For Lică money is the most important thing, while Liviu thinks that a happy and fulfilling life represents more. They are trying to rediscover who they are and what they can do with their life, all while being on an on going adventure on the streets of Bucharest where they cross paths with all kinds of clients who end up having an impact on their lives, for better and also for worse.
Mr. Otopeanu
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.
NEDELCU
He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else.
Vasile al Moasei
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.
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...
Lavinel Petricel / God
Radu Iovan and his high moral principles become the target of a ten thousand souls wager between God and Satan.
Paul Tomescu
When a couple returns to their apartment building on Christmas Eve, they find a man dressed as Santa Claus trying to break into their neighbor's apartment.
Hawaii is a story on the struggle of inheriting $3 million in communist-era Romania when owning $1 could mean losing your freedom and touches on the theme of how money could buy if not happiness, at least the freedom to choose unhappiness.
Marcel
When an elderly man returns to his family home after decades of absence, the apparition of his childhood sweetheart triggers a rewind to the life-changing events from his youth.
Alex Mazilu
Enquanto trabalha em uma peça in memoriam para um colega morto, um famoso repórter perde a noção da história da TV e se torna parte de uma relação pai-filha com o adolescente deixado para trás.
Victor
Uma engenheira arranja o trabalho dos seus sonhos na Roménia, mas causa uma crise matrimonial com a mudança ao comprometer a carreira autoral do marido.
Costel Dorohoi
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)
Andi Vasluianu
One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.
Boyfriend
A young woman deals with a self-centered, abusive boyfriend.
One girl. One car. One night. No coincidence.
Petrica
Robert is a young writer passing through a difficult time in his life. He decides to return home into his native village for the first time since his mother passed away three years ago. In more than 10 years, he paid only few visits to his parents and this fact is reflected by the distant relationship Robert has with his father. As it happens, he meets two former classmates: Petrica - his old best friend, now married with children and Paula- his teenage sweetheart. She is divorced after an unhappy marriage and is now working at a local store. She doesn’t seem to be engaged in a relationship…
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.
Kopalski
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.
Thug no 1
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?
Dani
The sweetest girl, Dana (Diana Dumitrescu) has to go out on a date with a broker, Dani (Andi Vasluianu) because her chubby friend, Oana (Antoaneta Zaharia), doesn't have the courage to meet her Facebook lover face to face. A hacker (Marius Damian) is cheating his partner, the computer, with a Facebook profile picture of two exquisite "delicious" girls. The whip cream/ chocolate teacher (Loredana Groza), a French woman who knows the insights of living in Bucharest teaches her pupils the art of Savarin by day and Marquis de Sade's practices by night. No one is what they pretend to be and they all believe that telling lies is the most beautiful truth, and this leads to a series of misunderstandings.
George
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.
The Father
Matei is preparing himself for an important game. He is not afraid of his opponent.
Vali
Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.
Matilda takes a one-day release from jail to attend her mother’s funeral, with no intention of returning. The clock is ticking as Matilda tries one last time to get help from her family and is forced to confront her troubled past.
Tatăl
On the morning of Christmas Eve, Robert travels, together with his daughter, from Tulcea to Bucharest. Robert has to take some black spawn to Mrs. Zina, a wealthy woman who lives in a select neighborhood in the capital. For his daughter, this is the first visit to the capital.
Viorel
Mona Paparu é húngara e mora na Romênia. Ela deixa a filha pequena com um parente distante para poder acompanhar o pai numa viagem à Alemanha. Ela não o via há anos e ele diz estar muito doente. Mas, chegando lá, Mona descobre que o pai está endividado com traficantes. Ele a entrega aos cuidados de dois traficantes de escravas, que a levam para a Inglaterra. Mona termina num elegante mas estranho bordel, o Bibliothèque Pascal, onde as prostitutas são forçadas a agir como personagens de histórias literárias.
Vlad Ursescu
The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, describing how a totalitarian state imposes itself by fear, rooting out individuals almost randomly and demanding their submission. By cutting back to scenes from the old life of Felix, the author manages to achieve balance and contrast with the suffocating atmosphere of the prison. We are shown our hero as an idealistic young man, searching for love and fulfillment.
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.
Cinematographer
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.
Mircea
narrator
Keyboard party.
Johnny
15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman learns some shocking truths that were kept hidden from her: Cristina ran away from home, is a drug addict and has a 2-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. Overwhelmed by guilt, Luiza attempts to save her daughter
Andrei Muscalu
3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.
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.
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
Marian
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.
Aurel
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.
Marilena's pimp
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.
Peștele
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.
Zetu
Following a competitive circumstances, Russian Federation returned the Romanian state treasury found in Moscow. Among the items brought into the country is also a bust of the early twentieth century (porcelain bust made in 1915, signed I. Andropov) that is not in inventory; experts consider it a "regular kitch". The bust was stored at the Museum of Art in Bucharest.
Taxi driver
While on his way for a business meeting, Tudor is having an unexpected 30 minutes break, because of the impossible traffic. He’s got enough time to have a coffee, to talk a little about his beloved little girl and to take a picture.
Felie
In a city full of "manele", drugs and illegal car races you don't survive unless you know how to pay. Sometimes with other's lives. Young people today are trying to adapt to a world without consciousness, a world of money, unscrupulous businesses. A film-adrenaline with accents of black humor, irony at the society which is run by large rubble and where life is just a currency.
Nicky
Everything is scheduled. A strange car accident and he is late. 17 minutes. He is going to his ex-girlfriend's bar. The place is empty and quiet. He would like to rest a little.
Niki
Niki wants to leave his family and work illegally in Germany. The voyage with his friend Cretu proves difficult.