Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.

An overworked and underpaid production assistant is tasked with shooting a workplace safety video for a multinational company. During the process, an interviewee's statement threatens to jeopardize the project. To salvage it, the assistant must creatively alter the narrative to align with the company's agenda.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians is a comedy-drama film that takes place during World War II in Romania. It explores themes of racism, war crimes, infidelity, and the persecution of Jews. The plot follows a filmmaker who is determined to stage a reenactment of a historical event involving the Romanian army and Jewish persecution. As the filmmaker delves deeper into his project, he encounters various challenges and confronts the dark history of his country.

In a small event hall, a woman in traditional costume begins playing a melody on a tambal (hammered dulcimer). The quirky, clever and shrewd greeting that Radu Jude is sending us from his homeland to Vienna soon becomes clear. It is the Tritsch-Tratsch Polka by Johann Strauss, which the folk musician Nicoleta Tudorache, who is famous in Romania, performs with verve – and which has certainly never been heard in this rendition. But what is the intellectual joker Radu Jude, who never shies away from a satirical jab, up to? Is it appreciation? A joke? An allusion to the debates on cultural appropriation?

A found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements, this brings together these documents of Romania’s long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism.

Aferim! este o poveste dramatică și comică în care căpitanul Costandin și fiul său, licuriciul, se întorc în Țara Românească în anul 1835. Călătoria lor este plină de aventuri, iar scopul lor este să găsească un țigan care a fugit cu mult timp în urmă de la un boier și care se crede că l-a sedus și răpit pe fiul său.

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties. The narration, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, tells the rising of the antisemitism and eventually a harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust.

Scarred Hearts is a movie set in a Romanian sanatorium in the 1930s, where a young man named Emanuel suffers from tuberculosis and spends his days in a plaster-cast. The film explores his experiences, relationships with other patients and staff, and the challenges of living with a disability during that time. As the summer unfolds, Emanuel finds moments of sadness, loneliness, and hope amidst the beautiful backdrop of the Black Sea.

In this captivating drama, a curious tube with a hat appears in a small town, bringing unexpected consequences for its residents. As they unravel the secrets of this enigmatic object, they also discover secrets about themselves and their town. With each twist and turn, the tube with a hat becomes a symbol of hope, love, and redemption. Don't miss this intriguing story that will keep you guessing until the very end!

In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer.

A film composed entirely of archival photographs and documents related to the Iași Pogrom of June 1941. The first part of the film consists of photographs of the victims, accompanied by statements and testimonies about their fate. The second part, shorter, is a montage of photos of the pogrom itself.

Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamt of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire – a popular French character epitomizing the unscrupulous swindler – as represented in the 101 lithographs of the series Caricaturana by Honoré Daumier. First, a montage of the gestures as Eisenstein envisaged. Then, original texts are added to the caricatures. And finally, we took the liberty to use them as a commentary to some current news.

When a divorced father's ex-wife plans to take custody of their daughter, he resorts to desperate and violent actions to protect her.

The film written and directed by Radu Jude starts from the gesture of defiance against Russia made in 1905 by the sailors on the cruiser Potemkin, who received political asylum in Romania. In 2021, a sculptor (played by Alexander Dabija) is trying to make a work inspired by this event.

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.

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

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...

The life of human beings, seen from birth to old age. Only that this generic life is not represented with humans, but with the artefacts that we the humans have created for our children (or should we say ‘cubs’?), in order to prepare them for life: the toys. So, the film is a collage of scenes in which the toys help us understand better a possible essence of our life.

A cinematic analysis of a photo album made by a Romanian Army unit in WW2.

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.