Ana Ciontea

When a devoted elderly couple faces the devastating reality of terminal illness, they are left to deal with a radical decision that will reshape their bond.

Bay Lazarescu’nun Ölümü ile tanınan Cristi Puiu’nun yönettiği ve Romanya’nın Oscar adayı olan Sieranevada, Romanya Yeni Dalgası’nın son dönemde en heyecan verici temsilcisi. Cannes’da yarışan Sieranevada, izleyiciyi bir yas evinde toplanmış kalabalık bir aileyle baş başa bırakıyor ve bu ailede bütün insanlık durumlarını buluyor. Mizahın ihmal edilmediği bu dram, hemen hemen tek bir mekânda bile sinemanın imkânlarının ne kadar geniş olduğunu hatırlatan modern bir başyapıt.

Several residents discover an unconscious woman lying in front of the block. Even though she lives on the third floor, nobody knows her name. While waiting for rescue, the neighbours reflect on her life and their own.

Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.

Infidelity drama, male egos, lost dogs in Startsladden favorite Stefan Constantinescu’s arthouse gem about a man consumed by jealousy who risks losing everything while searching for the truth.

A few weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pago, Rice and Bibi leave the calm city of Cesena looking for adventure: a ten-days-long holiday in Eastern Europe, in those places where the Soviet regime is still alive.

Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in Rotterdam. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.

The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.

The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.

A sad satire about the Internet age. A Romanian echo of the famous story of the first high-profile case of online bullying. In 2005, a dog happened to make a pile in the Seoul subway. For some unknown reason, the owner of the dog refused to clean up the poop. The crime of the dog and the inexplicable inaction of the lady was recorded on camera and caused a huge online scandal.

Six passengers are traveling to the seaside in a train compartment. After a while, a suspicion makes some of them lose their composure and the remainder of the trip goes terribly wrong.

On the night before Easter, a priest has to bring the Holy Fire from Jerusalem to his rural church. The closer he gets to the destination, the darker the night becomes.

Olga's grandmother, a successful lawyer, reveals on her deathbed that the adoptions she handled in the wake of the Romanian Revolution are riddled with shortcomings and the fate of many children unknown. Olga sets out to dig up the past.

Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30

The story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young writer who lives his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere tainted by suspicion.

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.

Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself.

Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still alive. Wishing to save its life, the doctor puts the mother on artificial life support. Just then, Bebe, the supposed father of the unborn child, enters the scene. A former teacher and mountain climber, Bebe will soon fall in love with the doctor...

Two men depend on each other for survival in the first world war, but something in their past might prevent them to get along. Will they be able to put everything aside in order to survive?

An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania.

Fifteen years later, Viișoara has not changed much: the shepherd remains the same lonely character, Varvara the same energetic woman caught in complicated administrative tasks, Toderaș with his palinca hidden in the barn and his fading authority, elders wise and active, young people enthusiastic—but not all of them.

Genç bir kadın olan Emi, bir okulda öğretmenlik yapar. Onun hayatı, kişisel görüntülerinin yer aldığı bir kasetin internete yayılmasıyla bambaşka bir hal alır. Öğrencilerin aileleri, Emi’nin okuldan ayrılmasını ister. Kendisinin görevden alınmasını isteyen ebeveynlerle buluşmaya zorlanan Emi, onların baskılarına teslim olmamaya karar verir.

One stressful morning, like every other morning, Cristina suddenly stops in the doorway. She is unable to take the step that would lead her out of the house.