Alexandru Potocean – MRQE

Monsters.

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love.

Poppy Field

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Poppy Field follows the struggle of a young Romanian gendarme, Cristi, who tries to find the balance between two apparently opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho hierarchical environment and that of a closeted gay person who tries to keep his personal life a secret. While his long-distance French boyfriend, Hadi, is visiting him, Cristi is called in for an intervention at a movie theatre, where an ultra-nationalist, homophobic group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. After one of the protesters threatens to out him, Cristi spirals out of control.

Tipografic majuscul

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romanias socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Clinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Crbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.

Dincolo de calea feratã

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After a year away for work, a husband spends his first night back home trying to reconnect with a wife who seems more distant than he remembered.

Portretul luptatorului la tinerete

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 Gavril-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 Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret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.

L’armée du crime

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team’s members became martyrs for the Resistance.

Amintiri din epoca de aur

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tales from the Golden Age is composed of 6 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alluded “Golden Age” of the last 15 years of Ceauescu’s regime.

Nunta muta

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

Hîrtia va fi albastrã

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.