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Auntie

Marcel is a 40-year old Belgian business man and he is married to Marilena. He has developed an obsession for her. His second obsession - the homeless children, because Mr. Marcel loves Romania, the country in which the homeless children are plenteously and where, for his pedophile urges, is enough a little bit of discretion. Marilena has to accept this for the sake of a so-called marriage harmony. Soon, Mr. Marcel considers that his marital equilibrium has become unstable. For that, Simona, who recommends herself as a teacher, gets added to these sensual searches, with drugs and ingenuity. Thus she earns more and satisfies her need for “dope” by helping willing couples to escape routine. Jealous Marilena banishes her and reaches the point of breaking up the marriage.

Different Mothers

“Different Mothers” is based on a true story that happened to polish movie director Krysztof Kieslowski during the filming of “Station” (1981) in which some of his footage was nearly used as evidence in a criminal case. Kieslowski later said that he abandoned documentary film making due, in part, to this incident and he realized that fiction films not only allowed more artistic freedom, but could portray everyday life truthfully.   Inspired by this incident, in the film “Different Mothers”, five young men go to a “Station” to film a documentary about “people waiting”. Deciding to finish everything in one day, they stay till late in the night. As time passes by each of the characters is influenced, in a different way, by the events in the station and the accumulated fatigue. The movie unveils stories, told by the characters, in which the mother’s attitude towards them in childhood had a deep impact over each character’s personal life. This is happening the same way in real life and becomes a subject of thought regarding the relationship between parents and children and not only that, also putting the viewers in a spot where they can discover events in their own lives or heard about from others. The “Station” grows to the dimensions of a huge life crossroad, point of going and coming, waiting for something or somebody, coming into being the feelings of waiting, loneliness… A leitmotif through out the movie dialogue is sentences like “Arrival of a Train at a Station” (Lumiere) 1895 and “about people waiting “(Kieslowski). The movie has 10 (ten) sequences, the last one depicting a tragic event, similar to the happenings in 1981 documentary “Station”, but with a different impact.  Our movie wants to show the relationship between the movie maker and the filmed reality, thus creating the illusion of control.

First of All, Felicia

Felicia's departure day (after the annual visit to her parents in Bucharest) is very tight: packing too late, an elaborate breakfast and the father's fear that he will not live to see her again. On top, her sister calls to say she can't drive her to the airport. As the taxi drives through the jammed streets, Felicia and her mother realize they will never be in time for the flight. While trying to rebook her ticket, Felicia is confronted with her two families (her ex-husband and her child in Holland & her father and sister in Bucharest). All these and the disrupted communication with her mother, reveal the painful ordeal Felicia had to go through in the last 19 years of separation from her family.

Floating Things

At work in Europe, Avram finds out that Italians pay well for the trained dogs, in order to feel in safe in front of the new waves of imigrants. That’s the big idea of Avram!... Returned to Romania he puts up a canis for guard dogs, thinking of exporting them to Italy. Happens to be, but in the neighbor of a nomadic camp expelled from Rome. Thus, “volens, nolens” the Italian conflict moves nearby the Danube. His life gets complicated: he enters into a valetudinarian love relationship with his own daughter-in-law , arouses a state of hostility with his “Italian” neighbors and the threat with death becomes real. The  end reveals and unexpected situation.

Francesca

Francesca (Monica Birladeanu) is a young teacher whose dream is to go to Italy. Looking for a better life, Francesca is ready to face anything, even the reservations of the ones close to her. The plan is that Mita (Doru Boguţă), her boyfriend, also reaches Italy once his small businesses in Romania will be done. Butevents do not turn out fortunately, painful truths come to light and priorities change.

Australia

The documentary describes the experiences of the Romanian National Football team and their participation at the Homeless World Cup which took place in Melbourne, Australia in December 2008. The characters are six homeless people from Timisoara and the surrounding areas, gathered by Mihai Rosus, the coordinator and the coach of the team. He is trying to change the athletes, even though they are simple amateurs, in spite of their social status. Vasile Bereghi, Beniamin Calancea, Pavel Calancea, Daniel Podină, Claudiu Kostity, Radu Muntean are the members of the Romanian National Football team. The other team. The documentary, an HBO Romania original production, tells the story of each player and accompanies them on the streets of Timisoara, in their training camp from Buzias, it shows the experience of getting their first passport and arriving on other continent where they have the chance to represent their country.

Birds Way

In the Danube Delta, in Periprava, the old ones die and the traditions are lost. The Lipovan community, made up of old-rite believers, has remained without a priest. The priest has ever since been chosen from the community and he did not need to have theological studies. Now, the old priest is ill, bound to the bed for some time, and the new one cannot take care of his duties because he is unmarried and there is no girl willing to become a priest’s wife. The villagers are desperate – funerals are performed by the deacon, and the Easter and Christmas services are also held without a priest. The villagers remember that when they were children and the cries of the prisoners on the Danube were heard and the parents were lying to them that it was nothing, just the cry of the birds. “We are sinful”, the villagers say to themselves, looking into the past. The film follows three years from the community life, where recent changes and modernization unveil the fragility and vulnerability of a traditional society.

Children of Uranium

After working in the mines for decades, the survivors are there even in their dreams: in the uranium mine. However, in reality, in Băiţa Plai nothing resembles what once was. The “Avram Iancu” mine was closed in 1998 due to environmental concerns. The settlement is ailing. From the labourers of those times, few are alive. The once nice blocks are but a ruin. The people live by collecting mushrooms and selling them abroad. Because “who gives you a job, all sick and irradiated? We kick the bucket one after the other.” A black irony – even though the mine is closed, the traces of uranium can be found everywhere. The radiation level is high, the houses are double afflicted: from both the mine and the construction materials taken from the area. There is ore everywhere: locals can find pieces in the road dust, the children play in soil with a radiation level much above the allowed threshold. Above all, an innocent boy’s whistling is heard.

Gopo - a legendary name

Ion Popescu Gopo  remains the first name that comes to mind when talking about Romanian feature film animation.

Gopo means over 50 awards in international competitions, if we only  refer to some of he’s important creations. He is a unique cartoon artistis in the short gold history of Romanian film animation.

If Gopo wouldn t have existed, he would have had to be invented. And, fortunately, he was selfinvented.

Kapitalism – Our Improved Formula

Imagine Ceausescu would come back 20 years after he was overthrown and executed. That he would start comparing the state in which he left the country for us, with the state of today. Imagine the former Communist dictator would understand it is some of his nearest who built Capitalism and that – generally – Romanians think only about money, cars and consumption. The proposal might seem absurd or funny – and it is. Because how else is post communist reality? I prefer to see it as a comedy. Anyway, there’s nothing more we can change about it. After Eastern European countries joined the EU, our recipe for capitalism might be successful in other parts of the world.

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Big Fellow

Big Fellow is the story of a boy who looses his legs in an accident. In despair of what happened, he loses the will to live and tries to persuade the doctor to help him die.

Caviar

Robert, age 35, and his seven year old daughter, Joan, leave Tulcea on Christmas Eve's morning heading for  Bucharest. Robert has to deliver a jar of caviar to Mrs. Zina, a wealthy women, leading a modeling agency. The man makes a living out of this and now he decides to take his daughter for a visit to the capital city ...

Deaf Rock n' Roll

A deaf woman tries to resume contact with her son, a rock star, after abandoning him 35 years ago. While going to the concert, she must overcome her fears and a world that does not understand her.

Joke's on You

Liminal Introspect

An interlude in a period of absence.

My Friend Is a Cloud

On a floating island, a boy is lost in a vision of the future.

The Grumbling Roza (Hummogó Róza)

Grumbling Roza is an old lady facing the metropolitanisation and modernization of city that has until now been quiet.

Trying Will Not Kill You

"Trying will not kill you" a Romanian proverb says. The film is centered on a character who, inspired by a TV commercial, decides to install, on the roof of his house, the electrical equipment used to generate electricity.

Urban Tree

The "Urban Tree"Animation launches the idea of an indefinite replication of a unique module. The universal stereotype at the level of an industry in which the operating principle is routine.

In a Can

People live like fish: in an aquarium.

Lullaby

What can a detective who is used to facts and reports do, when he finds someone in a house that has been for 90 empty years? A short story takes place.

Off the Track

During  three days a girl lives her daily routine followed by this strange feminine presence. After a motorcycle accident in the hospital's reserve tacit judgments about girls right to live is being taken.

13 14 15

Summer in Siberia. During a few short months, the vast, bleak expanses of snow and depressing darkness make way for cheerful greenery and soft light: lots of soft light. Somewhere, in the middle of nowhere, there is a cluster of wooden houses, linked to the outside world only by a dirt road. Everyday, repetitive actions shape the lives of the young Russians who live here. Chopping wood, lighting the stove, swimming in the river, doing errands with a horse and cart, eating together. The visual language employed by German director Claudius Beutler matches the archaic nature of this rural, outdoor life. 13, 14, 15 subtly copies the style of silent films from the earliest years of film history. Boys and girls acting silly, the axe cleaving through wood, driving wild horses -- we see it all, but we don't hear any of it. The seemingly essential information we miss out on through the lack of ambient sound is made up for by lyrical piano music, which emphasizes the cyclical nature of life in rural Siberia through repeated rhythmic patterns and melodies. Backbreaking work, healthy meals, and lots of sports and play. Simple and traditional, and close to Mother Nature: this is the pure life.

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An Education

In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford.

From Paris with Love

A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta) - a trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back... and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.

Gomorrah

"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.

Le concert

Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.

Les herbes folles

A wallet lost and found opens the door to romantic adventure for Georges and Marguerite. After examining the ID papers of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the red wallet he found in to the police. Nor is it that Marguerite can recuperate her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about whom it was who found it. As they navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their otherwise quotidian lives.

A piece of chalk

An Eco movie about the need for a change of mindset.

Another world

It's a film without actors,with no script, which can bring both advantages and disadvantages for  this achievement! In the interwar years, Brunea Fox speaks of "Five days among lepers" , about the live's o æepers and the disease. Intrigued by this story we wanted to see how life in the hospital is nowadays. A film that cries out through  images, we hope that the story the journey of high school students among lepers  captures the viewers interest.

We hope that we could express ourselves trough images well enough.

The one minute documentary, talks about the life of the last lepers from last leprosy in Romania.

"Another World" talks about how people made peace with leprosy, as they tried live forth their life's, as normal as possible. It talk about peoples frustrations, about a seemingly dark and isolated world, a reserve of humanity, a corner of people approaching extinction. One corner that the modern society perhaps needs. It is not about leprosy, which no longer officially exists in Romania, but about ordinary people, who bear the agony on their face, while the contemporary man bears it in his mind,a crippled soul.

Maybe it talks about the leprosy mastering us all , because we are more and more ignorant.

It is an educational video, in which religious motives, the self punishment of the people who bared a lifetime of leprosy shout out for those who go through this fraction of a story.

Domino Effect

When drugs threaten to demolish all the songs you play, learn to say no.

Dose

Are you not tired of passing along to others the environmental problems?

Eyes Wide Open