I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians 2018

6.90

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

2018

The Happiest Girl in the World

The Happiest Girl in the World 2009

6.90

Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest's sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism

2009

Uppercase Print

Uppercase Print 2020

6.60

In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.

2020

Fii cu ochii pe fericire

Fii cu ochii pe fericire 1999

4.50

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat.

1999

Ivana the Terrible

Ivana the Terrible 2019

6.40

It's based on the story of a crisis that took place in the summer of 2017 in the life of Mladenovic, a Serbian-born director living in Romania.

2019

Eagles From Țaga

Eagles From Țaga 2022

1

In a Transylvanian village, locals of various backgrounds play football in the 5th-league team Vulturul Ţaga, which is officially the weakest team in entire Romania. The team's catastrophic evolution during the last season stands proof: all their 30 matches ended with a loss! And the new season starts with a disaster: 2-17. However, the players haven't lost either their hope or their passion for the game and they continue to play football.

2022

Children of the Decree

Children of the Decree 2005

6.00

Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women, was the political thinking during the 1960s and 1970s in Romania. In 1966, Ceaucescu issued Decree 770, in which he forbade abortion for all women unless they were over forty or were already taking care of four children. All forms of contraception were totally banned. The New Romanian Man was born. By 1969, the country had a million babies more than the previous average. Romanian society was rapidly changing. By using very interesting archival footage and excerpts from old fiction films and by interviewing famous personalities from that time – gynecologists or mothers who were part of the new society - the director revives this period of tremendous oppression of personal freedom. Many deaths were caused by the mere fact that women, including wives of secret Romanian agents, famous TV presenters, and actresses, had to undergo illegal abortions. Many women were jailed for having them.

2005

Miss Christina

Miss Christina 1992

8.00

Christina's ghost haunts the mansion where she was born.

1992

The Long Journey by Train

The Long Journey by Train 1997

7.00

The drama of a young man who wants to emigrate in the west, but in order to do that he has to sell a kidney.

1997

The Drake's Head

The Drake's Head 1992

3.50

After a play of the same name by Gheorghe Ciprian.

1992

Escu

Escu 1990

5.00

TV movie made after the 1933 homonymous play by Tudor Mușatescu.

1990

Ivan Turbincă

Ivan Turbincă 1996

3.50

Movie based on Ion Creangă story, which in its turn is based on slavic lore.

1996