Emanuel Pârvu

Better This Way

Sixteen-year-old Adi struggles with persecution. The boy is taken for forensic examination, he has clear signs of being beaten, he doesn't say much. The police quickly determine that the attack may be related to his sexual orientation.

Familiar

Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself.

Miracle

A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.

Unidentified

An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.

The Ladder

Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.

Nine Stories of Love and Hate in Isolation

Dan Chisu made a new film, while in isolation. Some of the most famous Romanian actors performed, by filming themselves with their mobile phones.

5 Minutes Too Late

The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting.

Michelangelo

A father is forced to have one of the most crucial conversations in parenthood: the talk about death.

The Anniversary

At Radu Maligan's 94th anniversary the family members and the former colleagues of the old man come to his birthday party. Everything gets complicated when half of the guests try to convince Radu to confess his sins to a priest, while the others think that no one should be forced to do something beyond their will.

Black Clothes

A glimpse into the life of a middle-aged orthodox priest who struggles with his misdemeaning son.

The Fixer

Romanian-born Radu Patru is a trainee at a prestigious French news network. Serving as a translator and general problem solver, or "fixer," for the headlining journalists during his trial period, he's looking to make his big break. He sees his opportunity when two underage Romanian prostitutes are repatriated from France, creating an international scandal. Taking advantage of his language skills and local connections, Radu is prepared to do whatever it takes to interview one of the young girls. But as he ventures into tricky moral ground, he must stop to ask himself if, as an aspiring journalist, he can live with the consequences of his actions, and if, as a father, he's setting a good example for his son.

Cupa Regelui

A journalist ventures to interview the owner the first gypsy minority football team, The King of the Roma people himself.

Why Me?

“Why me?” focuses on some of the aspects of the New Romanian Cinema, using its own aesthetics. The short film describes the ridicule situation three film-makers create when all their paths to “glory” seem to be blocked. The only solution they find to their problem is an extreme one.

Graduation

After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.

Art

A 14-year-old girl auditions for a film role as an abused sex worker, and the director tries to convince her mother of the artistic rationale behind the provocative part.

Two

The short film Two, directed by Emanuel Parvu, is a one-shot film, shot from the crane, which tells a story in two characters sitting on a bench in a park.

Square One

In the Danube Delta, people are guided by archaic beliefs not understood by others. Not even the Earth is in harmony with their antiquated habits, and digging up the dead after ten years to wash their bones can Skiddle into an unpleasant event. But members of a family in Saint George decide to ignore the priest's requirement to stop digging for bodies, believing that they are doing the right thing according to Customs and customs.

High Schoolers, The Film of a Generation

A parody of the movie "The High Schoolers" (1986), in our generation.

Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man

When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate.

Tales from the Golden Age

Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.

A Family

Attack Force

Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his friend Dwayne.

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes

He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.

Shadow Man

An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.

Second in Command

Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged.

The Detonator

Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.

Catherine the Great

Drama documentary reconstructing the life and times of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Fix Alert

This film is a puzzle, which fits together in many different ways, only one of which is right. And all of which are deadly.

Eminescu versus Eminem

Three directing students brainstorm ideas for a feature film.

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