Program TIFF.20 Sibiu

Cornel, a young actor on the verge of divorce, travels with his authoritarian father to Austria. The journey becomes a confrontation with the past, with childhood wounds and the things we struggle to speak about honestly.

New Year’s Eve, 1999. A man is fatally shot during a hunting party. Agachi, a young investigator at the beginning of his career, is sent from the capital to determine whether it was murder or an accident. Soon, this apparently simple case turns into a test of conscience.

A young man dreams of opening a kiosk, but for now he lacks the means to do so. A local big shot offers him a substantial sum of money for what appears to be a simple delivery job, but things soon get complicated. At first convinced he has sold only his time, the young man realizes — when it is already too late — that he has in fact sold his conscience.

Where the Carpathians meet the Black Sea, Europe’s largest wetland is born, a place of legendary biodiversity and countless stories. This is the unique story of a remarkable land, told through the voice of the character that makes everything possible: the water.

45-year-old Laura has lost her memory. Accompanied by her family, she travels to Türkiye, only to find herself trapped in a reality-bending game of illusions that puts trust and personal convictions to the test, leading to hilariously irrational situations.

Everyone saw the furious crowds forcing Ceauşescu to flee by helicopter. In a quiet little town near the capital, the owner of a local TV station wants to answer a question that has remained unresolved for 16 years: did the town join the Revolution or not?

In the early 1930s, painter Leonora Carrington, a rebel against social expectations, joins the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons. During the war, Leonora flees to Mexico and finally empowers herself....See more details

Gianina, a young Romanian woman, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. While caring for her employers’ son, her own daughter grows up far away from her, in Romania. As Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion slowly begins to take shape.

In a small town in Romania, several teenagers learn how to get by without their parents, who have left the country to work abroad. Forced to grow up too soon, they form their own family in a desperate attempt to fill the void. At the center of it all is Flavia, a strong young woman accustomed to hiding her emotions behind sarcasm....See more details