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On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."

Eric Rohmer’in ‘Ahlak Üzerine Altı Öykü’ (Six Moral Tales) serisinden ilham alan genç yönetmen Puiu, benzer bir şekilde Bay Lazarescu’nun Ölümü’nü Bükreş banliyölerinde geçen altı filmden oluşacak bir serinin ilk filmi olarak kurgulamış. Bay Lazarescu Bükreş’te bir apartman dairesinde tek başına, üç kedisiyle yaşayan 60’lı yaşlarında bir alkoliktir. Bir gece mide krampları ve bulantısıyla uyanınca acil servisi çağırır ve beklemeye başlar. Ambulans nihayet geldiğinde, Lazarescu’nun büyük şehir tıp dünyasındaki karanlık yolculuğu başlar; bir hastaneden diğerine sürüklenir, yanlış teşhis konur, tekrar teşhis konur, beklemeye alınır ve saatler ilerledikçe durumu kötüleşir. Neredeyse bir belgesel lezzetinde gerçekçi olan film, yönetmenin kendi tabiriyle televizyon dizisi ER ile Rohmer’i buluşturuyor ve bolca kara mizah da içeriyor. Film, eleştirmenlerce bir başyapıt olarak nitelendiriliyor; Bükreş dünyanın herhangi bir şehri, Bay Lazarescu ise pekala yan komşunuz olabilir.

Two teenaged kids discover a miniature bottled city buried beneath a construction site. They must protect the tiny civilization within from reptilian alien hunters after its everlasting power supply.

A taciturn Romanian divorcee acquires a hunting rifle and initiates a killing spree.

Mircea has a 15-year-old daughter whose boyfriend is invited to dine with the family. He arrives early and they go to her bedroom. While watching TV, Mircea can hear his daughter moaning from her room. The dinner starts and Mircea finds out that the boyfriend supports a different football team.

'Pop-Up' is a triptych drama about three strangers affected by one random event. It was filmed in Newcastle, Australia, and Transylvania, Romania.

Florin Şerban, ilk filmiyle Romanya sinemasının son yıllardaki yükselişinin başarılı örneklerinden birine imza atıyor. Islahevinden çıkmasına beş gün kalan Silviu için bu son günler, kendi çocuğu gibi yetiştirdiği kardeşini almak için annesinin geri dönmesiyle iyice uzamıştır. Âşık olduğu görevliyi rehin alarak kaçmaya çalışan Silviu için zaman tükenmektedir. Özgürlük, rüzgâr, yollar, ilk öpücük... her şey olabilir artık... Bu sürükleyici film, daha lise öğrencisi olan başrol oyuncusunun performansıyla dikkat çekiyor.

There's no place like home. As long as you know where your heart is.

Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes - throughout with best intentions.

One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.

On set, a young couple of actors rehearse a love scene without success.

Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex.

Eğlenceli huysuz orta yaşlı bir adam olan Ricardo, altmışlarda hippiler göndererek eskiden yaptığı gibi karadan Hindistan'a seyahat etmeye karar verir. Ancak şimdi aklında başka şeyler var. 10 yıldır tekerlekli sandalyede, dejeneratif bir hastalıktan muzdarip, son aşamalarına doğru ilerliyor. Bu onun son yolculuğu olacak. Kahya Dana eşliğinde Türkiye, İran ve Pakistan üzerinden Avrupa'yı geçerek yola çıkar. Hem Ricardo hem de Dana'nın sonsuza dek kapalı olduğunu düşündüğü kapıları açan komik ve ilham verici bir yolculuk olduğu ortaya çıkıyor. Manzara genişledikçe, hayatın tüm önemli şeyleri önlerinde ortaya çıkıyor. En önemlisi, Ricardo yaşamak için bir sebep bulur.

Romanya'da ekonomik sistemin kurbanı bir grup genç para kazanmanın sıra dışı bir yolunu bulmuşlardır. Luca ve arkadaşları, genç kızları tavlayıp, sevgilileriymiş gibi davranarak daha sonra fahişelik yapmaları için yurtdışına pazarlarlar. Luca bu amaçla Veli adında bir kızla tanışır ama ona aşık olur.

Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, funny, absurd but quite realistic events. It is all about us, people who eat the animals that they love and the animals that love people unconditionally.

This Romanian dramatic comedy offers metaphorical commentary on life after Ceausescu's reign as it tells the story of a rural community turned topsy-turvy in their mad quest for the snails a prominent senator has requested for his dinner. The trouble begins when a rather imposing, pompous senator comes to visit a small rural Romanian town for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new hydro-electric dam. After he finishes his speech, the senator is accosted by a Swiss film crew eager to interview him. The senator is inordinately concerned with presenting a positive image of Romania to the world at large and so when he learns that he and the journalists are to stay at the same villa, does everything he came to make sure that they see nothing scandalous.

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.

While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister experience, he tries to find out what had really happened.

A beautiful Western woman asks a Gypsy to watch her four-year-old child while she is taught how to swim by a flirtatious married man, before she disappears into the sea.

Exploring one of the defining features of modern society, therapy, as seen through the eyes of a psychiatrist whose professional and personal life is on the verge of collapse.

Ana Mateescu knows that the fairy tale time has passed. A learned person over the last few years to face the responsibility of the lured staff in front of the adults is crying. She can barely remember the good times in care she has a happy family, a house of her own and she lived with her parents, grandmother and sister without anyone to worry about tomorrow. After the death of her father, a grandmother and mother’s departure to Spain, other changes followed in Ana’s life. A house lost in the nursing home, being needed to move with Simona, her younger sister, in their aunt’s apartment, Nuta.