Después de haber vivido varios años en Alemania, Alina se reúne con una amiga en un aislado convento ortodoxo rumano. Su amistad se remonta a la época en que, siendo niñas, se conocieron en un orfanato. Alina pretende que su amiga vuelva con ella a Alemania, pero ésta se niega porque no sólo ha encontrado refugio en la fe, sino que las monjas constituyen su familia.
Una noche, un hombre de 32 años, que conduce su coche a una velocidad muy superior a la establecida, atropella a un niño que muere poco después. Al temerario conductor le espera una pena de prisión de entre tres y quince años, pero su madre, una arquitecta de la clase alta de Rumania, intentará evitarlo por todos los medios.
El señor Lazarescu es viudo y vive solo en un apartamento con sus tres gatos. Su hija Bianca se marchó a vivir a Canadá. Una noche, el solitario anciano se siente mal y llama a una ambulancia. Lo llevan a un hospital, y desde allí a otro y a otro más, pero en ninguno pueden atenderlo. Mientras tanto, su estado de salud se va agravando rápidamente.
A romantic comedy about the first date between two people who have never had a relationship before but who desperately want one. A movie about fear and love.
La última película del director rumano Cristi Puiu ('La muerte del señor Lazarescu') gira en torno a Viorel (interpretado por el propio Cristi Puiu), un hombre divorciado padre de dos niñas, tiene 42 años y que se encuentra sumergido en una profunda crisis. Aunque aparentemente es un tipo normal y corriente, algunas de sus actitudes hacen presagiar lo peor: conduce por toda la ciudad en posesión de un rifle de caza y no sabemos qué intenciones puede tener de utilizarlo... ¿qué busca? ¿qué pretende? ¿hacia dónde se dirige? Pronto descubriremos que Viorel es en realidad un despiadado asesino, cuando lo veamos acechar a una familia en un solar abandonado. Después, continuará su viaje incierto rodeado de terribles pensamientos.
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
1999. Kosovo War. In a small Romanian village, the chief of the railway station, who also happens to be a local gangster, stops a NATO train transporting military equipment. Their arrival in this small village dramatically changes its landscape.
On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.
¿Qué pasaría si 16 años después de la revolución rumana y la caída de Ceaucescu el dueño de un canal local de televisión rumano ofreciera a dos invitados compartir sus momentos de gloria revolucionaria? Uno es un viejo retirado y eventual Santa Claus, el otro un profesor de historia que acaba de gastarse el sueldo en saldar sus deudas de bebida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Paul y Adriana están casados desde hace diez años y tienen una hija de ocho. Desde hace seis meses, Paul mantiene una relación extraconyugal con la dentista Raluca. Antes de Navidad, Paul, que intenta distribuir su tiempo entre su amante, la compra de regalos y las veladas en familia, decide llevar a su hija al consultorio de Raluca. Un imprevisto en la agenda de Adriana provoca un encuentro entre las dos mujeres, situación que colocará a Paul frente a una difícil elección.
A cop named Cristi must go undercover to trail teen Victor who is suspected of selling pot in the north-eastern city of Vasliu.
A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. The film follows the team from the formation of the squad to the end of the championship. The young people are from Timisoara and Arad, runaway children who now live in abandoned houses or who have managed to get a job and live in rented accommodation after going through orphanages or prisons. After taking a beating from many teams, the young Romanians manage to beat the USA. They are happy. They are all thinking of never going "home" again. It's warm and nice here, the people are nice. "In case I stay, I kissed you all!" says one of them cautiously. But after taking pictures of themselves on the beach with the ocean behind them and beautiful girls by their side, the seven return to Romania and get on with their lives.
The film follows Doru and Mihai, boys from Iasi, Romania, over the course of a couple of days, during which they smoke weed, eat ciorbă and mistakenly shoot their dealer’s grandmother.