Wanting to follow the current trend, Francesca, a young teacher from Bucharest, is eager to emigrate to Italy. Unfortunately,whilst desperately seeking support from those nearest and dearest to her, various untold truths unravel.
Different portraits, four short stories, four moments in time capturing the wanderings of a few souls, stuck at the crossroads of History.
Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
Sile gets out of jail and has the idea to get rich by mining cryptocurrency. Together with Dinel and Pompiliu he meets Ionuţ, the smartest guy in town, who helps them mine six million euros worth of crypto which they store on an USB drive. Dinel is responsible of keeping the drive safe, but he manages to lose it pretty quick, so the three of them start on a quest to recover the lost drive.
While standing in front of her boyfriend's apartment, Monica hears him having sex with another girl. Suddenly, everything appears clear for her. Or not.
Love Building is a comedy about a camp designed to mend broken relationships. 14 couples try to break the deadlock and rebuild their love, with the help of three psychotherapists and trainers. The program lasts for 7 days and the participants go through different stages of redesigning their love lives. But the three trainers meant to assist them have problems of their own and things gradually get out of hand. In an ongoing search for the "happily ever after”, one question pops up: "Can love be fixed in seven days?”
On a rainy day, two guys arrive in a small village with film and a projector in their car. No one from the village comes to meet them. What happened? Who are they? The not knowing relays no small amount of interest at times through tension as in a horror movie, and at times through compassionate laughter.
A night in the life of a 24-hour ‘Non-Stop’ store located in a neighborhood of apartment buildings. Four people lead different stories connected by a key character, Achim, the owner of the Non-Stop.
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
A bloody thriller (sort of Agatha Christie does The Twilight Zone) morphs into its own “making of”, a really talky one - a conversation about film, about fear, about fiction. The type of film where the less you know, the better. The title is almost a malaprop - a better one would’ve been F for Fake, but it was already taken. Howard Hawks said that a great movie needs three good scenes and no bad ones. This movie has only three scenes - so there you go.
3 men from a provincial town who are in an urgent need for money so they decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but very soon, the ticket gets stolen.
A married man has an affair with a much younger colleague. The two decide to celebrate her anniversary on a secluded island in the Danube Delta. From the moment they arrive, everything goes from bad to worse, without any logical explanation. After discovering that the only person who could take them back home is dead, the desperation to escape the island becomes uncontrollable, leading them to do unimaginable things to each other. Only one of them will leave the island in the end, answering the question that has haunted them since their arrival: Who else has been with them on the island all this time?
The drama follows a promising young architect as he tries to balance his personal life with the burdens of his career.
While working on an in memoriam piece for a dead colleague, a famous news reporter loses track of the TV story and becomes part of a father-daughter relationship with the teenager left behind.
On a seemingly normal evening, a young girl has the misfortune of encountering the wrong people. For her, this turns into a nightmare in which she is not even sure if she will survive the night...
The tranquility of a small seaside town is disturbed by a strange event: some vagrants try to rape a girl. A young man jumps to her defense. Intre cei doi se infiripa an idila, pana cand his past seems to sail over the present with cynicism and impatience. A strange mystery floats between them, until the day he is found dead and the girl decides to unravel the mystery of his disappearance.
Three men go into a pub. The first man has too many questions. The second man has the perfect plan. The third man has no chance.
Two boys meet during a summer vacation in the late '90s in a romanian town located on the Danube shore, a few days before the summer eclipse. They become close friends, until one of their actions will cause powerful consequences.
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.
One night, just before the holidays, in an empty park, two small-time thugs hold up a strange looking man. Where's the Christmas spirit?
One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.
After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.
Nine couples attend a weekend retreat to mend their troubled relationships, only to find their counselors need more help than they do.
After the suspicious death of his best friend Nic, Stefan, a fifty-year-old businessman, uncovers the unknown part of their relationship and has to come to terms with his new life.
3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.
Radu lives a solitary, sterile life. A promising job interview seems to give him a chance of breaking free from depression, but after some medical tests required by the company, he finds out that he only has a few more months left to live.
Three stories happening in one city. Three different life dilemmas. One Friday evening and one unexpected end.
When war erupts in Ukraine, three women from different worlds collide at the Romanian border: an Italian woman searching for her missing husband and unborn child, a Romanian mother fighting to save her daughter, and a young Ukrainian surrogate forced to choose between survival and motherhood. Blending documentary reality with fiction, the film explores resilience, sacrifice, and the fragile bonds that emerge in times of conflict.
A married man has an affair with a much younger colleague. The two decide to celebrate her anniversary on a secluded island in the Danube Delta. From the moment they arrive, everything goes from bad to worse, without any logical explanation. After discovering that the only person who could take them back home is dead, the desperation to escape the island becomes uncontrollable, leading them to do unimaginable things to each other. Only one of them will leave the island in the end, answering the question that has haunted them since their arrival: Who else has been with them on the island all this time?