(Nae Caranfil, Romania, 1993, 104 min, in Romanian with English subtitles)

Horațiu, an army recruit, is hot on the heels after Cristina, a senior in high school. She’s not necessarily against it, but only after a mandatory engagement, something he will soon give up on with the appearance in town of Dino, a second-rate actor, but reputed provincial Casanova.

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(Paul Negoescu, Romania & Bulgaria, 2022, drama, 106 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

** Lead actor Iulian Postelnicu in attendance! **

Ilie, a small-town police chief, wants to build a modest, comfortable life for himself, but ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to a part of something – to build an orchard, even a home. Although dubious things happen in the village, Ilie only sees what suits him. The moment he gets involved in the village marks the beginning of his collapse. In a vacuum of solutions, he tries to be what he has never been before: the justice seeker who arrests everyone guilty.

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(Bogdan Mirică, Romania, Luxembourg & Sweden, 2022, thriller, 126 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

Bogdan, an innocuous ambulance driver, becomes involved in an armed robbery to support his ailing mother’s medical needs. While fleeing from the scene, he accidentally hits a witness, who ends up in a coma. As Bogdan’s paranoia intensifies, he immerses himself further into the lives of his accomplices, while causing major problems in his own.

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(Cătălina Tesăr & Dana Bunescu, Romania, 2023, documentary, 83 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

This documentary follows Peli and Nina, a young Roma couple striving to conceive a son in order to comply with local custom. While they live under tremendous strain and keep taking fertility and ultrasound checks, their respective families are disputing their rights in the chalice pledged by Peli’s father to Nina’s family when they arranged the couple’s match. The intricacies of this marriage are teased out by Peli’s sister, Bara, who provides a gripping confession about the women’s lives in this community.

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(Paul Negoescu, Romania & Bulgaria, 2022, drama, 106 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

Ilie, a small-town police chief, wants to build a modest, comfortable life for himself, but ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to a part of something – to build an orchard, even a home. Although dubious things happen in the village, Ilie only sees what suits him. The moment he gets involved in the village marks the beginning of his collapse. In a vacuum of solutions, he tries to be what he has never been before: the justice seeker who arrests everyone guilty.

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(Cornel Mihalache, Romania, 2022, documentary, 107 min, Romanian & Hungarian with English subtitles)

Phoenix. Har/Jar reunites the members of the legendary rock band from the period before they left communist Romania in 1977, and highlights the important moments in the band’s tumultuous chronology, from the first appearances in 1962 under the name “Sfinții” (the Saints) to the present day. The documentary presents, for the first time, the events that the musicians went through in the country, the relationship with the Securitate, the communist political police, their departure from Romania and the band’s activity before and after the 1989 Revolution.

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(Bogdan Theodor Olteanu, Romania, 2023, dark comedy, 100 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

Taxi drivers Liviu and Lică navigate the nocturnal life of Bucharest, picking up passengers who turn to them for therapy, political discussions, assistance in criminal enterprises, and more. Each driver must decide what’s more important to him: the wild ride or their lives off the meter.

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(Alin Boeru, 2023, documentary, Romania, 85 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

Why Do They Write On Walls? delves into the history and ideology of Romanian street art and graffiti, interwoven with interviews of the country’s most renowned street artists. Started as an objective analysis of a counterculture, the film transforms into an intimate coming-of-age story of a young corporate employee who gets sucked into a world that is in total opposition to his own.

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(Bogdan Mirică, Romania, Luxembourg & Sweden, 2022, thriller, 126 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

Bogdan, an innocuous ambulance driver, becomes involved in an armed robbery to support his ailing mother’s medical needs. While fleeing from the scene, he accidentally hits a witness, who ends up in a coma. As Bogdan’s paranoia intensifies, he immerses himself further into the lives of his accomplices, while causing major problems in his own.

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(Iulia Rugină, Romania, 2023, 77 min, in Romanian with English subtitles)

In communist Romania of the 80s, outside music was trafficked on vinyl or secretly recorded from foreign radio stations. Playback tells the story of one of the most famous DJs during that time and of the musical events that changed the face of a society.

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(Vlad Petri, Romania, 2023, 68 min, in Romanian with English subtitles)

Two friends separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.

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(Bogdan Theodor Olteanu, Romania, 2023, dark comedy, 100 min, Romanian with English subtitles)

Taxi drivers Liviu and Lică navigate the nocturnal life of Bucharest, picking up passengers who turn to them for therapy, political discussions, assistance in criminal enterprises, and more. Each driver must decide what’s more important to him: the wild ride or their lives off the meter.

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