The sheer range of Romanian films created as a result of this spring's lockdown has shown us how we can cope with the crisis. A lyrical montage of old footage set within the context of isolation alongside a video art compilation from public cameras around the world evokes feelings of melancholia, whilst a puppet fairytale criticises the establishment and the capitalist machine ...
A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic gardening.
The last village tram of Romania transports people near Nagyszeben. The film gives an insight into its life, tiny problems and joys with the help of a tram-fan driver.
Producer: Aristoteles Workshop
Screenplay: Csuja László
Cinematographer: Svetla Nejkova
Music: Csuja László
Editor: Hristov Angelov
The Resocialization Center at the "Alexandru Obredgia" Neuropsychiatry Hospital is a more or less utopian attempt to reintegrate into the "system" to socially reintegrate patients with mental deficiencies.
Beyond the success or failure of this attempt, emotional memory preserves the inner poetry of some personal universes - as a form of survival in a chaotic and absurd reality ...
A lost monarchy is represented by a princess whose steadfast mission is to restore to her dynasty real political and economic responsibility in contemporary Romania. With great energy, sometimes funny slips, too, but mostly with the appropriate royalist seriousness, Princess Margareta of Romania plays her role as the subject and object of her own campaign. The performance is of...
The documentary explore the situation of the pregnant women in Romania, a country that has the highest children mortality rate in the EU.
A derelict coal mine, a tramway depot, a small ready-made clothing workshop of a former fashion house, a dairy factory, and a world of women who lived their youth in communism. In capitalism, they work in difficult conditions but they do not complain. Their simple and humane stories form a complicated historical puzzle. Routine, frustration, the fear that they may become expend...
In 1947, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito visited, for the first time, Romania. Its communist regime gave him, as present, a painting from a great Romanian artist Ion Andeescu: 'The Leafless Forest'. In the 60s, a young art critic, Radu Bogdan, decided to elaborate a monograph dedicated to the great painter, including reproduction of the painting given to Tito. After countles...