During the 1980s, the American journalist Edward Serotta documented the harsh realities and Jewish life in socialist Romania. The secret services clandestinely accompanied him on his journey. A photo essay from opposing perspectives.

A gesture of defiance against Russia is made in 1905 by the sailors on the cruiser Potemkin, who received political asylum in Romania. In 2021, a sculptor is trying to make a work inspired by this event.

Two different views of the execution of Romanian wartime dictator Ion Antonescu confront one another. On one side is silent footage recorded in 1946 by cameraman Ovidiu Gologan, and on the other side are scenes from a biographical film shot five decades later by director Sergiu Nicolaescu.

2025 Romanian comedy drama film by Radu Jude

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.

You say my poems are poetry? They're not. Yet if you understand they're not, - Then you see the poetry of them!

A found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements, this brings together these documents of Romania’s long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism.

一名超负荷工作、工资过低的制作助理不得不拍摄一部由跨国公司委托拍摄的工作场所安全视频。 但一位受访者发表的声明迫使他重新编造自己的故事，以适应公司的叙述。

Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamt of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire - a popular French character epitomizing the unscrupulous swindler - as represented in the 101 lithographs of the series Caricaturana by Honoré Daumier. First, a montage of the gestures as Eisenstein envisaged. Then, original texts are added to the caricatures. And finally, we took the liberty to use them as a commentary to some current news.

Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.

2021威尼斯电影节非竞赛展映。

A photo album bears silent witness to history. Handsomely bound and carefully labelled, it traces the path of the 6th Regiment of the Romanian army in the war years of 1941 and 1942. Romania had allied itself with Nazi Germany to fight the Soviet army. This film soberly dissects the perspective of these war photographs. Making use of quotations from historical sources, it puts these banal images of everyday military life in a larger context, supplementing that which has been deliberately left out.

畫面來自攝影師哥斯提卡厄辛特的照相館，是羅馬尼亞小鎮攝於1937 至1946 年間的珍貴照片。聲音則來自一名猶太裔醫生同期的日記，記下當年反猶太主義抬頭， 羅馬尼亞的大屠殺歷史，並穿插那時候的政府宣傳片聲帶。雷杜祖迪繼《押奴記》（39 屆）及《少年詩人的心疤》 （41 屆）後，轉拍非劇情片，同樣充滿震憾力。聲音與畫面，明明出自同一時空，卻彷彿兩個平行宇宙，猶太人面對的苦難命運，與羅馬尼亞小鎮的生活面貌，看似割裂分離，卻又互相對照，彼此補足。

A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set.

Radu Jude / Romania / 2007 / 26 mins Tavi, a man in his late thirties, discovers that Alexandra, his 4 years old daughter, is not calling him “Dad” anymore.

In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer.

A disturbed man records himself leaving a long message to the loved ones. (Basically, the whole movie is done in only one shot which is the man’s recording). His message, both funny and melodramatical, proves to be a farewell message. The man accuses his friends and family for not understanding him, he also accuses the post-communist Romanian society which doesn’t work properly. After this message, the man shoots himself in the head. He doesn’t die, he is just badly wounded. What follows is a hilarious and horrific agony: the man is bleeding and crying for help. The neighbours get in and call the Ambulance…

- I am frightened, grandpa!... Do you hear? [...] - The people in the house are crying, he said. They miss the one who died, that's why they are crying. ("In the Coach-house", by A.P. Checkhov)

Early in the morning, a young taxi driver must drive a forty-year-old woman from Jilava to Bucharest.

In “Spaces #2”, 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. The films are directed by: Tarik Aktaş, Mateo Bendesky, Denis Côté, Rachel Leah Jones, Radu Jude, John Carroll Lynch, Jia Zhang-ke.