Of Snails and Men
Of Snails and Men is inspired by true events. In a small town, the state-owned car factory, which employs almost all the local men, is about to be privatised. What the workers do not know is that their manager plans to make money from the deal and approaches two French businessmen, father and son, who […]
8th of March
A derelict coal mine, a tramway depot, a small ready-made clothing workshop of a former fashion house, a dairy factory, and a world of women who lived their youth in communism. In capitalism, they work in difficult conditions but they do not complain. Their simple and humane stories form a complicated historical puzzle. Routine, frustration, […]
Another Christmas (2012)
Parents who leave still believe in Santa Clause. “Another Christmas” is a Romanian short film directed by Tudor Giurgiu, about the drama of the children who are left at home with their grandparents, by parents working abroad. A boy is waiting for his parents to come back from Italy, to spend Christmas together. He hasn’t […]
Our Big Time
Graz 1944. The bombs are no longer targeted at industrial towns only. All cultural centres of the so-called “Ostmark” face numerous air raid warnings per day. Even the children of these towns are now evacuated. The last wave of the children evacuation programme has begun. Ferry and Alex, two blood brothers as defined by Karl […]
Somewhere in Palilula
The 60’s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică. Palilula, an authentic “Macondo” from the region of Oltenia, is a place where the insignificant coexists with charming things; in the hospital, the […]