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- The life story of Herman, a promising young man who under extreme circumstances changed into Romania's most effective torture machine in the infamous Pitesti Experiment during the Communist Regime.
- In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
- While searching for answers about her past, a lost teenager with amnesia and a medallion is pursued by an orphanage director, a police officer and an assasin.
- A documentary film with ethnographic touches about the house in Iancu Bacalu Street no.11, Iasi, Romania. Our houses formed us but inevitable they disappear just like people, giving way to another generation of people, of buildings.
- On 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « Corriere de la Sera », arrives in Iasi, in the north of Moldova, on his way to the front, which is nearby. He is incapacitated by a severe allergy and his only chance of recovery is to find a Jewish doctor, an allergologist who had studied in Florence, called Josef Gruber. All his attempts to find him are unsuccessful. While looking for him, Curzio discovers that in Iasi, several days prior to his arrival, a violent anti-Semitic pogrom took place and that a large number of the Jewish citizens of Iasi were deported by train and that Dr Gruber may be among them. In order to find him, Curzio, aided by Guido Sartori, the Italian consul in Iasi, tries to obtain an official warrant to bring Josef Gruber back. He confronts indifference, rudeness and the desire by the Romanian authorities to hide something relating to the deportation of the Iasi Jews. His journeys between the garrison of Iasi and its commandant, Colonel Niculescu-Coca, and chief of police Stavarache, are fruitless. After a confrontation with Niculescu-Coca, Curzio and Sartori leave in search of the Jews who, after several nights - during which many of them were shot in the yard of the police station were boarded onto goods wagon and sent to a station 20 kilometres from Iasi. Arriving there, Curzio and Sartori find a number of locked wagons from which moans and whimpers of people in agony are heard. Wanting to open a wagon, Curzio is stopped at gunpoint by a corporal. The two learn from the corporal that the Jews who had died of thirst in the train have already been unloaded and are being buried in a nearby cemetery. Arriving there, before a mass grave where bodies covered in quicklime can be made out, Curzio learns that the man he is looking for, Josef Gruber, is among the dead. The next day, back at the hotel, Curzio receives a visit from Colonel Niculescu-Coca, who, apologizing for the previous days altercation, has some unexpected news for Curzio
- Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.
- Masha, a hired mercenary, and Nick, a bullied high school student, unite to take down the Gorda Mafia. Can they succeed by mixing good and evil?
- An emotional rollercoaster journey within the music and the social transformations of the last 50 years in Romania, seen through the eyes of a famous DJ during communist times.
- Pious girl Paraskeva spent 40 years of her life in desert fighting temptations, sins and inner demons.
- Romania, 1946 - the communists rose to power through fraud and violence. Groups of anti-communist fighters gather in the country's mountains and forests, forming the Resistance. George is one of them, and this is his story.
- A "behind-the-scenes" insight of the Romanian wedding industry, with cameramen, photographers and singers from all around the country in the spotlight. Their life stories, their editing styles, their hands-on-approach know-how and, of course, their performances at weddings, mix up in a shortcut-style film. George Stirbat, the 30-something one-man-show singer from the small town of Onesti returned home after a mini-Broadway career and Petru Manici, the coal mine electrician from the mining town of Petrosani, are just two of the most interesting characters the film follows in their quest to achieve perfection for the bride's and groom's memories. Something to remember.
- The film describes Goldfaden's journey from Iasi to New York via Odessa and Sankt Petersburg.
- On June 29, 1941 thousands of Jews were herded into a courtyard in Iasi, Romania and were massacred by German and Romanian soldiers. Many of the Jacobovicis of Romania died that day. Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici goes back to the land of his forebears and explores issues of memory - his and Romania's.
- The nocturnal routine of a thirty year old man, caught between two consuming relationships, is questioned by the waiting of a pregnancy test result.
- In post-war Romania, religious and political persecution didn't come to an end. The film presents the story of Aristina Pop-Saileanu, who stood out through her guerrilla activity during Communism, in Maramures, but also the history of the partisans in Mount Tibles.
- The film follows Doru and Mihai, boys from Iasi, Romania, over the course of a couple of days, during which they smoke weed, eat ciorba and mistakenly shoot their dealer's grandmother.
- In 2013 director Romulus Balazs discovered a book about an event from his native Romanian history unknown to him.
- In a destitute family from a small village in Romania, a mother and her children try to live a normal live with their abusive father.
- A grieving girl locks herself in the bathroom during her brother's funeral. She would only speak to the priest.
- The Decree no. 770 of October 1, 1966, forbade termination of pregnancy and use of contraceptive methods. Accelerated population growth was desired.
- The creator and his creation must never share the same plane of existence. Adam is the original artist, he wants to create life out of pure love. His mind is filled with dreams of Eve, so he decides to mold her from clay.
- After trying different ways to leave Romania, five young adherents of the Goma Movement are condemned for social parasitism because they wanted to step out of the communist "paradise". Their odyssey is told by the sole survivor of the group, Mr. Radu Negrescu-Sutu.
- A shepherd dog, lost from his flock, adopts a group of school kids.
- There are incredibly cruel and unjust deeds in recent Romanian history. This film explores the abuses and torture suffered in the 1960s by the prisoners in the correctional labour camp Periprava.
- Inspired by Le Corbusiers idea of the city as machine, and by the aesthetics of Brasil's new capital, Brasilia, a city built in only three years - out in the middle of the jungle - the planners and the politicians of Gothenburg decided to build a completely new city, for 200 000 inhabitants - out in the middle of the forest. Nothing turned out quite as they expected. A perfect new world tells the epic story of the segregated suburbs of Gothenburg through the lived experiences of a young woman, the film's main character; Sagal Hussein. Sagal is a 19-year old boxer from the Gothenburg suburb Hjällbo. And she can't imagine a better place to grow up. The film "A perfect new world" begins with Sagal's high school graduation day in 2012 and follows her as she finds her way out into adult life. On her journey, she meets with several experts in the fields of architecture and city planning, all who are middle class and all who try to explain to her, why the suburbs, her home, represent a failure.
- Born in Basarabia at the beginning of the last century, the yet to become famous soprano Ella Urma was shaped in the atmosphere of interwar Romanian city of Iasi. The "Ella Urma. Story of a life" is a intertwining of three different lives: private life, artistic life and teaching life.
- 6ase is about 6 kids that go together trough a life changing adventure.