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Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.

A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.

An artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

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.

Delia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.

Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.

On a baking hot day in Bucharest, priest Florin Florescu arrives at a quiet home to administer the last rites to a dying woman. But not everyone is happy with the visitor and his Christian ritual.

The story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.

A boy convinces his father to go into town and fix their TV.

A film constructed using the opposition of what a huge collection of recently discovered glass-plate photographs from the 30's and 40's tell us about Romania and what they do not show.

Radu and Adina, a young couple of graduates, have just made love. She is profoundly in love with him and cannot wait to move to his place; however, he has reservations. While going shopping in a superstore, he bumps into (or thinks to bump into) his ex-girlfriend Nadia.

Accidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family.

There comes a time when the stories told by your parents cannot put you to sleep anymore.

Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music, the 'pop music' of the Roma community. Manele music serves as a way out of poverty for some successful musicians, but more often it's just another opportunity for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching this subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon enough, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty, while Alberto feeds Adi with phrases of love. Little by little, their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.

The former mostwanted gangster Liviu Caramitru succeeds in breaking out of a prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Within a few hours, experienced LKA special investigators Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder begin a large-scale manhunt across the country. The first attempt to apprehend him fails on the banks of river Oder on the border with Poland and Caramitru manages to narrowly escape yet again. His path leads the two police detectives via Bucharest to a remote village at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. There, far away in Caramitru's Romanian homeland, Landauer and Schröder hunt down the fugitive - from the traditional wedding of his sister to the inevitable Western showdown high-up in the mountains.

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

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.

Insolent, spontaneous, funny. Pamela, a young Roma, is different from other girls in her community. A single mother, she lives with her grandmother and her little girl in a small hut where the three of them share a bed. How can she reconcile the needs of her two-year old daughter and her dream of freedom? Pamela embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. "Lapin, pizza, amour". All she has are three words in French and the hope that marriage will change her and her daughter's destiny.

An imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country's businessmen.

A heavy drinker and heavy smoker, the avantgardist poet, composer and illustrator Nina Cassian she was both an accomplice and a problem for the Stalinist regime in Romania. Afterwards she was a direct opposer of Ceausescu's regime.

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.

A film about utopias and a metaphoric drama that threads the similar destinies of monkeys and men.

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

Felicia expects that her sister will drive her to the Bucharest airport for her flight to Amsterdam. The sister flakes out, triggering a chain of frustrating complications that conspire to keep Felicia waiting with her excessively protective yet well-meaning mother at the airport.