Country: Romania

Direction Liviu Ciulei

Cast Victor Rebengiuc · Anna Széles · Stefan Ciubotarasu · György Kovács

Plot Romanian actor and director Liviu Ciulei’s Pădurea Spânzuratilor (The Forest of the Hanged) adapted from a novel by Liviu Rebreanu, appeared in competition at Cannes in 1965 where it received...

Direction Stere Gulea

Cast Victor Rebengiuc · Luminita Gheorghiu · Gina Patrichi · Dorel Visan

Plot Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more...

Direction Gabriel Liiceanu · Sorin Iliesiu

Direction Radu Jude

Cast Ioana Iacob · Alexandru Dabija · Alex Bogdan · Ion Rizea

Plot A young artist is planning to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.

Direction Tom Barton-Humphreys

Plot This film is a unique production that reveals the beauty of Romania as it is: raw, magical but fragile at the same time.

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Gheorghe Dinica · Ernest Maftei · Ioana Pavelescu

Plot A former soldier and convict returns to his village after World War I and is suspected and rejected by everyone (his wife included), with the exception of a young widow....

Direction Cristian Mungiu

Cast Anamaria Marinca · Vlad Ivanov · Laura Vasiliu · Alexandru Potocean

Plot Romania, during the final days of Communism. Otilia and Gabita are students; they share a room in a hall of residence. Gabita is pregnant. The girls arrange to meet a...

Direction Alexander Nanau

Plot This observational documentary follows the events after the tragedy that took place at the Colectiv Club in Bucharest on 30 October 2015, killing 65 young people and injuring dozens. The...

Direction Cristi Puiu

Cast Ioan Fiscuteanu · Luminita Gheorghiu · Mimi Branescu · Dana Dogaru

Plot Mr. Lazarescu is 63 years old and lives in a block of flats, together with Nusu, Mirandolina and Fritz, his three cats. His wife died eight years ago and Bianca,...

Direction Emanuel Parvu

Cast Bogdan Dumitrache · Laura Vasiliu · Valeriu Andriuta · Adrian Titieni

Plot Set in a conservative Danube Delta community, a gay teenager's journey of self-discovery clashes with the traditional values upheld by his parents and neighbors.

Direction Nae Caranfil

Cast Mircea Diaconu · Gheorghe Dinica · Mara Nicolescu · Viorica Voda

Plot Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.

Direction Radu Jude

Cast Serban Pavlu · Sofia Nicolaescu · Gabriel Spahiu · Mihaela Sirbu

Plot Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to...

Direction Radu Ciorniciuc

Cast Vali Enache · Gica Enache · Niculina Nedelcu · Rica Enache

Plot For two decades, the Enache family—nine kids and their parents—lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations...

Direction Nae Caranfil

Cast Marius Florea Vizante · Ovidiu Niculescu · Mirela Zeta · Vasile Albinet

Plot In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen...

Direction Andrei Gruzsniczki

Cast Sorin Leoveanu · Ofelia Popii · Florin Piersic Jr. · Virgil Ogasanu

Plot Romania, mid-1980s. Sorin (Sorin Leoveanu), a gifted mathematician whose career advancement is blocked because he is not a member of the Communist party, comes to the attention of the security...

Direction Cristian Mungiu

Cast Cosmina Stratan · Cristina Flutur · Valeriu Andriuta · Dana Tapalaga

Plot A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage. Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita - the only...

Direction Bogdan Muresanu

Cast Mircea Andreescu · Ioana Flora · Gabriela Hamzescu · Luca Toma

Plot A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.

Direction Anca Damian

Plot The animated documentary feature-length “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the story of the life of Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while...

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Ion Besoiu · Olga Tudorache · Irina Gardescu

Plot An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pätrascu, known as "Michael the Brave", the prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country...

Direction Horatiu Malaele

Cast Meda Andreea Victor · Alexandru Potocean · Valentin Teodosiu · Alexandru Bindea

Plot A team of reporters go into a village, populated only by old women, to make a report about a paranormal occurrences. The mayor will start to tell a story related...