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- The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
- In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival of CIA operatives, the two agents race to determine the hidden agenda of the visit.
- 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. Does he have the right to revenge himself?
- Security guard Aurel (Andi Vasluianu) and his wife Irene have a moderately happy marriage and a moderately comfortable lifestyle in urban Romania. Irene takes a working trip to Cairo and returns invigorated with the swell of success. She sets out again and never returns. What follows is both predictable and unpredictable. Aurel, and the audience, are suspicious of the official explanation of her death so the foundation is laid for the traditional who-dunnit. Aurel proceeds on an emotional search against all odds.
- The documentary presents the life and research of Emil Racovita, one of the first Antarctic explorers, a pioneer of oceanology and the founder of a new science, the bio-speleology. He created in Cluj the first Institute of Speleology in the world. Using photographs made by Emil Racovita in Antarctica, the film focuses mainly on the Belgica expedition (1897-1899), the first scientific expedition who wintered in Antarctica, having Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook on board and Adrien de Gerlache as captain.
- Peli and Nina are a couple from a traditional Roma community who were married by arrangement and are parents to a little girl. However, local custom posits that a marital union can only endure if the couple conceive a boy who can later inherit the family's badge - the chalice (tahtai).
- Stefan is 18 years old and the anniversary gift is a driving lesson, a bottle of vodka and a libertine discussion about women. But this "gift" also contains an unexpected surprise, which overcomes the boy's entire birthday.
- 10 musical pieces, sung by Valeriu Sterian. An ironic commentary on social and political issues in Romania in an original visual style.
- Founded by German ethnics, Lindenfeld has been a prosperous settlement. Today, there are only three inhabitants left with their hates and hopes.
- An essay on Doina Cornea, a famous Romanian dissident under communist regime and a tireless fighter for democracy.
- Lucy Castle, English, came as a 26 year old in Romania in the Maramures region in order to prepare her doctor's degree in ethno-musicology. She ended marrying a plain peasant: Ion Hotea (22). At present, the Castle Hotea family is in Great Britain. People say that's what Ion was after all the time, while Lucy wished to live in the village for the rest of her life.
- 100 years after Tristan Tzara's birth and 80 years after the beginning of dadaism, this documentary is looking for what remains alive from this artistic movement to which three people born in Romania made major contributions: Marcel Iancu, Arthur Segal and of course the legendary Tristan Tzara.
- A Romanian village and a Swiss town, situated at hundreds of kilometers, have populations of different confessions. The two cemeteries, presented in parallel, suggest two attitudes towards life and death.
- A funny tale about a bad woman-driver and a young thief who tries to steal her purse while she's waiting in jammed traffic.
- A documentary about classic Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's time of exile in Berlin, Germany.
- Iosif Demian returns forty years later to Rosia Montana, the place where two memorable films of the Romanian cinema have been shot: "Nunta de piatra" and "Duhul aurului" for which he signed the cinematography.
- In 1929, a team led by Professor Dimitrie Gusti made the first sociological documentary in Romania, in the mountain village of Dragus. 40 years later, in communist times, another film is made in the same village. Nowadays, after another 40 years, the film authors attempt to capture the actual image of Dragus.
- A history of the Romanian animated film, from the beginning until 1990.
- A confession of King Michael of Romania, recorded in 1994 in Versoix, Switzerland. The king presents his life as a common person surrounded by his family, going back from the experience of the exile towards his childhood. A rich archive material illustrates this singular recollection.
- A documentary about the stray dogs phenomenon in Bucharest, where more than 200.000 dogs roamed the streets in a city of 2 milion people.