Don't Let Me Die
Maria wanders through a seaside town for the burial of her enigmatic neighbor Isabela. As the nights grow longer, she adopts Isabela’s dogs, meets her son, and encounters a woodcutter who is afraid of sleep.
Maria wanders through a seaside town for the burial of her enigmatic neighbor Isabela. As the nights grow longer, she adopts Isabela’s dogs, meets her son, and encounters a woodcutter who is afraid of sleep.
Overwhelmed by debt, young couple Azamat and Tanshoplan hatch a desperate plan: fake a terminal illness to raise money through a viral charity campaign. But as the donations pour in and public sympathy grows, their lie spirals out of control.
Plan contraplan (Shot Reverse Shot, Radu Jude & Adrian Cioflâncă, România)
Index (Index, Radu Muntean, România)
Cum am învățat să nu mă omor (How I Learned Not to Kill Myself, Norbert Boda, România)
In the scintillating, pop-infused world of a Japanese boarding school that trains teenage girls to become professional mermaids, 17-year-old Akame learns to hold her breath, perform for adoring crowds, and swim alongside sharks.
Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world.
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex starts receiving letters from the abductor.
Blessed (Blessed, Voicu Mureșanu, România)
Geese-y Does It! (Geese-y Does It!, Alina Rusu, România)
Atunci când suntem împreună (When We Are Together, Alexia Drăgan, România)
Marea finală (The Grand Final, Rareș Roșca, România)
Lucia is spending her vacation with her husband and friends in a small Bulgarian seaside village. The arrival of a mysterious man disrupts the group’s fragile harmony, while the disappearance of a local child casts an increasingly unsettling shadow over their holiday.
After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family.
Alec, an introverted teenager, has always viewed life through the lens of his father’s pornography business. When they relocate from London to a sleepy seaside town, Alec hopes for a fresh start, trying to make friends without revealing his unconventional life.
If you want something badly enough, the whole Universe will conspire to help you achieve it, right? Stela becomes obsessed with a famous Balkan musician after seeing him on TV. Convinced she must meet him, she gradually lets this obsession take over her entire life.
Lavinia este o adevărată furtună. E impulsivă, nu se gândeşte de două ori înainte de a acţiona şi nu prea ştie să-şi arate dragostea. Dar îşi doreşte să fie o mamă bună. Visul ei de a extinde casa părintească o aruncă într-un iureş de acţiuni şi obstacole de-a lungul a patru anotimpuri.
Still haunted by a personal tragedy, Ticu Ionescu decides to resume his work as a physicist. When he receives the results of the latest particle collision experiment, he notices that part of the impact energy is missing. Could this prove the existence of dimensions beyond known reality?
During a torrid summer, a family is about to sell their land. Three women depend on what will happen to the farm, until a fire engulfs the region and, prevented from leaving, they will face the uncertainties about the future.
Viitorul ți-l faci cu mâna ta, dar de ce să nu îl lași pe mâna unor specialiști? (Alexandra Schinteie, România)
Praf (Dust, Elena Butică, România)
Memory Pills (Memory Pills, Teodora Mihăilă & Agata Olteanu, România)
Margini (Edges, Roberta Șerban, România)
1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father.
Cristi, a corrupt cop willing to risk everything for a 30-million-euro fortune, believes that El Silbo, the whistled language used on the Spanish island of La Gomera, is the key to uncovering where the money is hidden.
A day in the life of Charles Swann, a young man admired by high society for his artistic refinement. The great passion of his life is Odette de Crécy, who sends him rushing through the fashionable Paris of the Belle Époque.
New Year’s Eve, 1999. A man is fatally shot during a hunting party. Agachi, a young investigator at the beginning of his career, is sent from the capital to determine whether it was murder or an accident. Soon, this apparently simple case turns into a test of conscience.
Charlotte Colace is a singer and songwriter with French and Cuban roots, based in Berlin and active on the local soul and jazz scene. Her voice combines soulful sensitivity with contemporary influences, exploring themes of love, loss, and resilience.
A hybrid documentary following actor Sergiu Voloc, a modern-day Don Quixote whose lonely fight against Lenin monuments across Moldova turns into an absurd confrontation with a system that rebuilds them overnight.
After investigations reveal an unusually high number of residents receiving disability aid in a small Romanian village, social services dispatch a team of inspectors to uncover the truth. What will they discover?
Romania, 1989. In a small, isolated town, ten-year-old Maria is the last person to see her sister before her mysterious disappearance. Torn apart by the loss, she struggles to make sense of a new and terrifying reality in a world on the verge of collapse.
When an overzealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far, his brane explodes. Corey Harlan is sent to find the heart of the brane and its creator Anton Chambers inside a mysterious townhouse where every door can lead to another world.
Vin americanii! (The Americans Are Coming!, Valentin-Rareș Fogoroș, România)
10 mai 1945 (May 10, 1945, Alberto Androne, România)
Cherry Master (Cherry Master, Cosmin Nicolae, România)
Tangent (Tangent, Cristi Păun, România)
Bianca’s world shatters when her fiancé’s mistress crashes their wedding. Reeling from shock, she flees on a tourist train, launching a real-time odyssey of chaotic escape and surreal encounters through the off-season seaside resort.
In a small town in Romania, several teenagers learn how to get by without their parents, who have left the country to work abroad. Forced to grow up too soon, they form their own family in a desperate attempt to fill the void.
45-year-old Laura has lost her memory. Accompanied by her family, she travels to Türkiye, only to find herself trapped in a reality-bending game of illusions that puts trust and personal convictions to the test, leading to hilariously irrational situations.
„10 Years in 60 Minutes” is a CdFD multimedia project that brings together a selection of eight photo stories documented over the past 10 years by Petruț Călinescu, accompanied by an original soundtrack composed by Electric Brother, created from sounds recorded in the field during the documentati
Where the Carpathians meet the Black Sea, Europe’s largest wetland is born, a place of legendary biodiversity and countless stories. This is the unique story of a remarkable land, told through the voice of the character that makes everything possible: the water.