Bogdan Dumitrache

Drawing inspiration from Wald, a 2015 novel by the bestselling author Doris Knecht, as well as her own traumatic experience of witnessing the 2020 Vienna attack, writer-director Elisabeth Scharang retreats to the woods in this atmospheric and soul-stirring film.

Romania's winning streak at festivals continues, but the most unusual and ambiguous one still lurks in mysterious darkness. The undeservedly underrated Gabriel de Achim challenged the widely renowned Cristi Puiu (“The Death of Mr. Lazarescu”) to make a film using all the things, which the established Romanian master most detests in cinema. He constructed a non-linear story with wickedly tangled flash backs and flash forwards and set the same actors to perform different and multi-faceted roles.

Infidelity drama, male egos, lost dogs in Startsladden favorite Stefan Constantinescu’s arthouse gem about a man consumed by jealousy who risks losing everything while searching for the truth.

O professor de biologia Bence e sua mulher Janka vivem às margens de um lago recluso que atrai muitos pescadores. Até que um dia, inexplicavelmente, todos os peixes aparecem mortos. Enquanto Bence tenta repovoar a fauna do local, Janka passa os dias procurando emprego longe dali. Com o relacionamento do casal cada vez mais próximo do fim, tudo muda quando a misteriosa Nora aparece na vida de Bence.

In the Outskirts of Bucharest, in an area he's known all his life, near 60s Police officer Visoiu is given the mission to find two prostitutes that are willing to testify in an organized crime case.

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.

Apesar dos planos para casar com a namorada grávida, um engenheiro tem um caso com a mulher internada do colega de trabalho, até que a verdade vem ao de cima.

Roxana is about to leave Romania and settle down in Madrid, Spain. Helped by Dan and his wife, Alina, she will soon find a job there and start a new life.

É uma bela manhã ensolarada em Bucareste quando Tudor vai para o parque local com sua filha Maria de 5 anos e seu filho Ilie de 7 anos. Quando ele volta sua atenção para as crianças depois de fazer alguns telefonemas, ele não consegue encontrar sua filha mais nova.

Um homem foge aos planos natalícios da namorada para ir visitar a mãe e os irmãos e convencer o pai afastado da família juntar-se a ele para um reencontro surpresa.

Lary (Mimi Branescu) vai com a esposa à casa da família, para a comemoração de um ano desde a morte do pai. Lá eles encontram outros familiares, das mais diversas gerações. Todos aguardam a chegada de um padre da Igreja Ortodoxa para realizar uma oração e benzer a casa. Enquanto esperam, as conversas paralelas revelam desde banalidades da vida cotidiana até conflitos entre alguns integrantes.

The drama follows a promising young architect as he tries to balance his personal life with the burdens of his career.

Expulsa de casa após ter engravidado misteriosamente, uma curandeira decidida a limpar o nome cruza-se com uma mulher que anseia pelo mesmo milagre.

Costi é um homem de família que recebe uma proposta intrigante de seu vizinho endividado: ajudá-lo a encontrar a fortuna alegadamente enterrada na casa de campo da sua família na Romênia e dividir os lucros.

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

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.

Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes - throughout with best intentions.

Luca (George Pistereanu), um jovem de 20 anos, seduz garotas e depois as entrega a seus amigos no porto de Constanta, no Mar Negro, para integrar uma rede de prostituição. Até conhecer a bela Veli (Ada Condeescu), uma de suas vítimas potenciais, e se apaixonar. É verão no rio Danúbio, em Harsova. A música alta, os carros, as garota bronzeadas fazem parte da paisagem, e Veli foge de casa para os braços de Luca. O primeiro amor nunca pareceu tão perigoso.

It's Christmas Eve in a small mountain train station and no train is coming since all the tracks are blocked with snow. Four people are waiting for a train that doesn't show up. They don't know each other, how long it's going to take or if they will ever reach their destinations. But as the hours pass, Madalina, Cristi, Ozana, Alex share the absurd, the despair and the hope. Because they are accidentally stuck here. Because no one knows when it will end. And because it's Christmas.

Paul e Adriana são casados há dez anos e têm um menina de 8 anos, Mara. Desde há seis meses, Paul tem uma aventura extraconjugal com Raluca, dentista. Paul, que tenta partilhar os poucos dias que precedem Natal entre Raluca, a compra de presentes e as noites em família, decide fazer uma última visita com Mara ao consultório de Raluca. Um imprevisto no emprego do tempo de Adriana faz com que as duas mulheres se encontrem pela primeira vez. Sem dar lugar a confrontação, este encontro põe Paul perante uma escolha difícil.

When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate.

Victor, a business man from Bucharest who can’t stand anymore to see his son beat up in school, takes the boy to boxing classes. But Vlad, who’s 12 years old, is not interested in learning how to fight and refuses to enter the first training. To teach him a lesson, the father enters the boxing ring himself.

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.

Ana and Nicolae, a young Romanian couple, travel by bus from Bucharest to Vienna with the prospect of making quick money by handing over a stolen car. As soon as they arrive, however, they are reassured that the car is not yet ready for them. Ana then wants to go back to Romania, Nicolae would rather travel further west. They are stuck penniless in Vienna.

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.