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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?
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.
In a near-future city consumed by violence and paranoia, Bax desperately searches for his missing twin sister April. His journey through the darkest corners of the metropolis slowly pushes him toward madness in this dystopian sci-fi thriller.
Cristi, a young police detective in a small Romanian town, refuses to arrest a teenager caught smoking marijuana, unwilling to destroy the boy’s future over a minor offense that may soon become legal. His superiors, however, demand that the law be enforced to the letter.
Rahim is from Iran and has settled in Canada, where he works at a funeral home. Business is good, as he has an agreement with the Iranian government to properly give the last rites to his fellow countrymen.
Cornel, a young actor on the verge of divorce, travels with his authoritarian father to Austria. The journey becomes a confrontation with the past, with childhood wounds and the things we struggle to speak about honestly.
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.
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.
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)
Ten-year-old Filip is sent by his mother to the near town to buy a new pair of shoes. After choosing them carefully, he happily heads home, only to discover that both shoes in the box are for the right foot. What will Filip do?
In the isolated landscapes of southern Ireland, Jen works as a conservation ranger in the same forest where her younger sister died in a tragic accident years earlier. When a former boyfriend unexpectedly returns, long-suppressed memories resurface, forcing her to confront their shared past.
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?
Gianina, a young Romanian woman, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. While caring for her employers’ son, her own daughter grows up far away from her, in Romania. As Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion slowly begins to take shape.
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)
Barb travels through frozen Minnesota to scatter the ashes of her recently deceased husband. In the middle of the wilderness, she inadvertently witnesses the kidnapping of a teenage girl and realizes she is the girl’s only chance of survival...
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.
While helping a woman search for her birth mother, Rachel is drawn deeper into her own family history. When Rachel launches an international search for her missing sisters, she uncovers a painful legacy of abuse and exploitation.
Olga, her father and her two younger sisters have been living a carefree life, thanks to the fortune amassed by Ileana, their paternal grandmother, a successful lawyer. Ileana’s sudden death throws their family into disarray.
Finally free from prison after a 20 year sentence, Anker wants to get back the money he has stolen. However, his brother and accomplice Manfred suffers from dissociative identity disorder: he now believes he is John Lennon, and John can’t remember the place in which Manfred buried the money.
Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realising, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence.
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)
Vali is questioned by the police for complicity in a theft and needs an alibi. He meets Anişoara, a young and beautiful shop assistant, and suggests a getaway to the seaside. Their day of romance begins with hopeful thoughts about the future, but...
A young man dreams of opening a kiosk, but for now he lacks the means to do so. A local big shot offers him a substantial sum of money for what appears to be a simple delivery job, but things soon get complicated.