cadRO Section
1. Global Gypsy
Romanian title: Global Gypsy
Director: Jan Filkorn
Director of photography: Jan Filkorn
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Running time: 52 min
Synopsis: Andreea left her mother after the collapse of communism in Romania and became a successful investment banker in Paris, New York and London. Now pregnant, she is looking for a real home. “Global Gypsy” tells us the story of a globalized family who tries to deal with distance, difference & loneliness.
   
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2. The Flying Shepherd
Romanian title: Ciobanul zburător
Director: Cătălin Mușat
Director of photography: Marius Iacob
Country: Romania
Running time: 26 min
Synopsis: The ordinary, boring life of five shepherds becomes extraordinary when strange flying men appear out of nowhere.
   
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3. Bolek Majerik – The White Wolf
Romanian titlel: Bolek Majerik – Lupul Alb
Regie: Andreea Știliuc
Imagine: Relu Tabără
Țara: România
Durata: 28 min
Sinopsis: Bolek Majerik, the white wolf of the Carpathian Mountains, was born in Plesa, a small village in the north of Romania. He is of Polish origin, but he feels Romanian in spirit. He enjoys his true alchemy and considers himself a new shoot off the millennial trunk of Dacia.
   
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4. Grigore Vieru - the Last Interview
Original title: Grigore Vieru - ultimul interviu
Director: Gavriloaia Sandrino
Director of photography: Iulian Ene
Country: Romania
Running time: 29 min
Synopsis: The enigma of poetry always defended Grigore Vieru, despite his political, literary and artistic struggle. A meeting in Chisinau, in the poet’s home, recorded what was to become the latest television interview with the Bessarabian poet Grigore Vieru.
  
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5. Romania’s 1st of December
Original title: 1 decembrie la români
Director: Răzvan Butaru
Director of photography: Răzvan Butaru
Country: Romania
Running time: 24 min
Synopsis: December 1st — the National Day of Romania. An ocassion for celebrations and walks down memory lane. An occassion for pride and national dignity. An opportunity to meet again with our own history, with the most glorious side of the national history. The Great Romania was born on December 1st, 1918. A miracle. But what really lies behind this first day of December? The other plain 364 days, filled with oblivion, days during which Romanians don’t know and don’t want to know anything about their past. |
6. Home Far Away from Home
Original title: O casă departe de casă
Director: Alina Anghel
Director of photography: Sergiu Cumatrenco Jr
Country: Germany, Republic of Moldova
Running time: 19 min
Synopsis: In our time, thousands of Moldovans leave for foreign land, driven away by poverty at home. In the nineteenth century, thousands of Germans had left their homes behind and came to populate the steppes of Bessarabia for the very same reasons. Strangely enough, there are Germans today who make the trek to Moldova, which is, unfortunately, the poorest country of Europe. What drives them to come and, especially, to stay here? What makes a man decide where his home is? |
7. An Imaginary Border
Original title: Un hotar închipuit
Director: Raluca Chirilă
Director of photography: Adrian Butnaru
Country: Romania
Running time: 26 min
Synopsis: The Csangos on the Trotus Valley are an obscure ethnic group and the subject of controversy among experts. “Csango” in Hungarian means mongrel. Some Csangos say that they are magyarized Romanians, while others claim the contrary, that they are Romanized Hungarians. The film shows a Csango community from Ghimes, a village crossed before 1918 by the border between Romania and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, also known as “the 1000 years border.” |
8. Bee Moldovan  
Original title: Bee Moldovan
Director: Sergiu Cumatrenco Jr, Valeriu Șova
Director of photography: Valeriu Șova
Country: Republic of Moldova
Running time: 57 min
Synopsis: A family of Moldovan bees works abroad, similarly to the characters of this film, who left for Paris searching for nectar.
   
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9. In Between Worlds
Original title: Zwischen-Welten
Romanian title: Între Lumi
Director: Katharina Koch
Director of photography: Roland Ibold
Country: Germany
Running time: 55 min
Synopsis: The film is a portrait of Tatiana S, a student. She was born in Moldova but has been living in Germany for the last 10 years. Her family is split across three different countries. The film accompanies Tatiana on her way from Germany to Moldova where she vistis her father and sister. Expressive images show her encounters with people and locations important to her. This is a film about migration and life "in-between.”
   
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10. Interstice
Original title: Lacune
Romanian title: Lacună
Director: Eliane Esther Bots
Director of photography: Eliane Esther Bots
Country: Holland
Running time: 9 min
Synopsis: In “Interstice,” a woman talks about her youth and her parental home, while the camera observes calmly the details and the atmosphere of her house. Sometimes the interior and the story of the woman become one. At other times, the text and the images clearly follow their own storylines.
  
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11. Communist Fairytales of Joy and Sorrow
Original title: Povești comuniste și vesele, și triste
Director: Diana Deleanu
Director of photography: Petre Constatinescu
Country: Romania
Running time: 75 min
Synopsis: Three stories from the communist era; three characters who lived different lives behind the “Iron Curtain.”
   
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12. I’m Richard from Vaslui
Romanian title: Sunt Richard din Vaslui
Director: Vasile Arhire
Director of photography: Radu Vizitiu
Country: Romania
Running time: 27 min
Synopsis: For Romanians, the EU has meant an opening to free circulation. Violeta was born in Vaslui, Romania. Richard is from the United Kingdom. Their destinies met in Amsterdam. They had their wedding ceremony in Romania. |
13. The Seven Churches of Michael Gritta
Original title: Cele șapte biserici ale lui Mihăilă Gritta
Director: Cristina Oancea
Director of photography: Ion Cristodulo
Country: Romania
Running time: 49 min
Synopsis: Following the trail of legendary gold, we piece together the true story of a miner who built seven Romanian churches and seven Romanian schools, the dramatic history of three centuries of struggle in defense of the Orthodox faith and national identity in Transylvania, as well as the threat to the churches of Rosia Montana.
 
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14. The Other Europeans 
Romanian title: Alți europeni
Director: Yvonne & Wolfgang Andra
Director of photography: Wolfgang Andra
Country: Germany
Running time: 122 min
Synopsis: Fourteen internationally known Jewish and Roma musicians go on a journey through Europe. They want to find their way back to a culture in which the Jews and the Roma lived and performed music together in Eastern Europe, especially on Bessarabian land.
   
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