On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have...
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
In modern-day Transylvania, vampire hunts and labor strikes collide with sci-fi twists, romance, and AI-crafted tales, as multiple storylines blend...
Dracula
A Chilean woman, Teresa, comes into a firmly structured and isolated mountain community of Croatian shepherds in the early 20th century, claiming to...
God Will Not Help
In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom,...
Uppercase Print
An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.
It Can Pass Through the Wall
Elena, a Romanian single mother in Athens, dreams of a better future and a sense of belonging she has long been denied. When she is unjustly fired,...
Elena's Shift
As she stands on the verge of leaving the orphanage she called home, Rebeca, a young Roma girl, clings to the hope that her father's release from...
I Matter
Infidelity drama, male egos, lost dogs in Startsladden favorite Stefan Constantinescu’s arthouse gem about a man consumed by jealousy who risks...
Man and Dog
36-year-old Stela has higher education but unable to keep a job. Since she was 12, she's been in love with a Serbian musician from the former...
Cloistered Sister
Punish: a reading of parts of a novel in which a military officer gives a clinical, amoral account about his role in the violent oppression of...
Punish and Discipline
A documentary filmmaker is filming an old Securitate officer with a hidden camera. He suspects that, 60 years ago, the officer had followed and...
Cameras Do Not Record Such Things
A film composed entirely of archival photographs and documents related to the Iași Pogrom of June 1941. The first part of the film consists of...
The Exit of the Trains
A docu-comedy about politics in a world where citizens are dogs, politicians are dog breeders, national institutions are local dog breeders’...
Whose Dog Am I?
Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania....
On the Impossibility of an Homage
Directed by four different filmmakers and produced by different production companies, these four short films share a common theme - life and death -...
Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã
A cinematic analysis of a photo album made by a Romanian Army unit in WW2.
Memories from the Eastern Front
The life of human beings, seen from birth to old age. Only that this generic life is not represented with humans, but with the artefacts that we the...
Semiotic Plastic
A gesture of defiance against Russia is made in 1905 by the sailors on the cruiser Potemkin, who received political asylum in Romania. In 2021, a...
The Potemkinists
Young theatre actress Mina struggles to play the role of scandalous 12th century poetess Mahsati Ganjavi. Urged to loosen up by her friends, she goes...
Mahsati
Boško Tokin, the hero, was the first filmmaker in the Balkans and the first in the world to go to prison for it.
The Great Tram Robbery
