Ion Ioachim Stroe

Date Night

Andrei works at a car-wash. Due to a series of unfortunate events he gets fired. This is terrible news for Andrei, as he is getting married soon. At home he and his future wife argue and Andrei invents a story in order to avoid the fight. Who knew this was going to be a bad idea?

No Man's Land

A woman needs to urgently drive her terminally ill father from a German clinic back to Romania. When at the border, she can’t go further.

The Village Called Sands

Every year on August 29 ("since the world and the earth", says a local in the film), the village of Nisipuri is celebrating: there is a bâlci whose spirit has gone all over the south of the country. The locals are very proud of their town, at least until they come to the comparison of the past with the present, when the balance inevitably tilts in favor of the former term. The documentary captures—through hand-held footage and long shots (let's not forget that the cinematographer is Andrei Butica)—the day before the big day, the preparations, the actual event, and... the breaking of the fair.

November

Vlad, 38, works as a tour guide on cruise ships. When he started work ten years ago, he left behind a failed relationship and a small child: Max, his son, who is now almost a teenager. Vlad happens to come back to Romania for a week and tries to connect with his son and make up for the lost time.

01.05.2020

Typically, every year, May 1st opens the summer season, always crowded with crowds that rush to the seaside to mark the start of summer with joy and gusto, on which occasion going out of town becomes an event. In 2020, however, May 1 comes with a muted and deserted atmosphere. In contrast to the usual days of May 1, this year, the silence and desolation of the sea were the consequences of the extreme quarantine of that period, in the midst of a global pandemic.

31 hours

Stefan, the only surgeon available, takes on one final patient after working a 31-hour shift. In what should have been a simple procedure the 8-year old boy dies on the table. In this powerful short, the corrupt Romanian health care system is put under close scrutiny upon the backdrop of sorrow, payoffs and threats.

You Are Ceaușescu to Me

An experimental blend of documentary and fiction in which young people aged between 15 and 22 from different backgrounds are auditioning for the role of young Nicolae Ceausescu in the mid-1930s while trying to find the drive behind his actions.