In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam’s father’s remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.
SATURDAY 21.09 / 16:00 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
MONDAY 23.09 / 18:00 / CINEMATECA EFORIE
When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds on holiday Ireland as a series of surreal encounters test them all to their limit.
FRIDAY 20.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
SATURDAY 21.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA UNION
A sudden violent experience catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through sorrow together in hopes of finding family.
TUESDAY 24.09 / 18:00 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
THURSDAY 26.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.
MONDAY 23.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
SUNDAY 22.09 / 18:00 / CINEMATECA EFORIE
On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the 2008 Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new journey together.
MONDAY 23.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
SUNDAY 22.09 / 18:00 / CINEMATECA EFORIE
It is a tragicomedy whose action unfolds in a single day, before the Revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom, and meaning in an absurd world fueled by fear.
THURSDAY 19.09 / 19:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
(Screening followed by a Q&A session)
WEDNESDAY 25.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
(Screening followed by a Q&A session)
Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school.
MONDAY 23.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
FRIDAY 27.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
A man obsessively searches for his missing daughter after receiving disturbing videos exposing his secrets, leading to a chilling confrontation with the voyeur.
SATURDAY 21.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
TUESDAY 24.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA UNION
Three sisters living on Canary Islands find their routines transformed by a sense of magic and meditation. Each sister copes in her own way without a breadwinner expressing themselves through their body mixing realism and fantasy.
WEDNESDAY 25.09 / 20:00 / GRĂDINA CU FILME
SATURDAY 21.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
Nine-year-old Leni and childlike intellectual Marcel, who is 23, kick around Bucharest in a joyous adventure, unruffled by the dark sides of life.
FRIDAY 20.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
A young Romanian woman leaves her homeland and her child to earn money in Germany – by looking after the daughter of a German family. Clara becomes the mother of two children, one in this foreign country, one, painfully neglected, at home.
SUNDAY 22.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA UNION
Episode 1: THE BRUCKENTHAL MUSEUM ROBBERY
Episode 2: The Maglavit Miracle
Episode 3: The death of Mihai Eminescu
Episode 4: THE MYSTERY OF THE OSTARA YACHT
FRIDAY 27.09 / 19:30 / GRĂDINA CU FILME
SUNDAY 22.09 / 19:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
An earthquake causes a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor, which accelerates climate change.
WEDNESDAY 25.09 / 19:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
SATURDAY 28.09 / 19:30 / GRĂDINA CU FILME
During COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, two married couples quarantine together in a country house, leading to rising tensions and revelations about their relationships.
SATURDAY 21.09 / 19:30 / CINEMATECA EFORIE
TUESDAY 24.09 / 20:00 / GRĂDINA CU FILME
Seventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening, with an unexpected twist.
DUMINICĂ 29.09 / 19:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
Investigating Judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
FRIDAY 20.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA UNION
SUNDAY 22.09 / 16:00 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
SUNDAY 22.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA UNION
TUESDAY 24.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
When Mr. Blake, a widower of late, turns up at the Domaine de Beauvillier estate, everyone – the manor itself, along with its owner and staff – are all just as badly off as he is! But unlike Mr. Blake, who has come to this familiar abode merely to collect his thoughts, the other protagonists are in the throes of tackling their respective personal problems. The arrival of this very British guest acts as a trigger, spurring them back to life.
SATURDAY 21.09 / 18:00 / CINEMATECA EFORIE
MONDAY 23.09 / 20:00 / GRADINA CU FILME
The stark personality differences between sisters Karen and Jule become apparent as their families come together for a birthday party.
SATURDAY 21.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA UNION
A writer’s novel is banned and play canceled. He then conceives a satirical novel where a devil-like character metaphorically revenges those responsible. Knowing it cannot be published, his muse Margarita pushes him to write it anyway.
SATURDAY 28.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
(Screening preceded by a special event and followed by a Q&A session)
One evening in 1941, Schlomo, the village madman, brings terrible news to his fellow citizens of the Shtetl (Jewish village in Eastern Europe). They will all disguise themselves either as deportees or as train conductors, German officers, or soldiers, trying to save themselves.
FRIDAY 27.09 / 20:30 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
(Screening followed by a Q&A session)
(based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Nicole Krauss)
New York, 21st century. Leo, an old Polish Jewish immigrant, lives with the memory of his great love.
THURSDAY 26.09 / 18:00 / CINEMA MUZEUL ȚĂRANULUI
(Screening followed by a Q&A session)
Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
MONDAY 23.09 / 18:30 / CINEMA UNION
(Screening followed by a Q&A session)
Montréal is in the midst of a series of kidnappings of young boys, and Félix, at ten, is just finishing up the year at school. Gradually, his “imaginary demons” start to reflect those of the remarkably troubling and disruptive world around him.
THURSDAY 26.09 / 20:00 / GRĂDINA CU FILME
(Screening followed by a Q&A session)
Jeff is invited by his friend Max to travel deep in the woods and stay at the isolated estate of acclaimed director Blake Cadieux. He has high expectations for the trip: Cadieux is an artist he greatly admires – plus Aliocha, Max’s older sister, with whom he is secretly in love, is also coming. The untouched and hostile forest and the director’s huge cabin become the territory where the youthful search for ideals and freedom confronts the wounded egos of the adults.
VINERI 20.09 / 18:00 / CINEMATECA EFORIE
(Screening followed by a Q&A session)
