Program ARTA Cinema

Beyond the river lies a world where suffering, poverty, and violence define everyday life. The film doesn’t explain or judge - it listens. With no external narration, the community tells its own story - with pain, with humor, with dignity. An unforgiving mirror held up to a society that keeps what it doesn’t want to see at arm’s length.

Pedro, a loss adjuster, travels across Mexico investigating the causes of major catastrophes. To escape the depravity and violence of his daily life, Pedro decides to become an art collector. Also, Pedro becomes involved in a theater production, but his lack of experience and the repulsive character he must portray plunge him into an identity crisis....See more details

In Turin in 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche is witness to a brutal scene: a hansom cab driver whipping his stubborn horse. Nietzsche throws his arms around the animal’s neck, sobbing. Two days later he mutters his famous last words, spending the next decade silent and demented, cared for by his mother and sisters.

Director of Photography: Alexandru Mavrodineanu Editor: Alexandru Mavrodineanu, Eugen Kelemen Cast: Ciprian Panaite, Oana Panaite, Mihail Ristea, Roxana Ristea Producer: Alexandru Mavrodineanu Production: Almafilm Production FILMOGRAPHY Love Hurts (doc, 2025), Caisă (doc, 2018), One Night for Love (sm/short, 2016), The Birdman (doc, 2014), Music in the Blood (sm/short, 2010), The Boxing Lesson (sm/short, 2007), Oven Baked Apples (sm/short, 2005) Love Hurts is an intimate documentary about the fragility and power of love, which tells the true stories of two couples over two years of suffering, separations and reconciliations....See more details

In the summer of 1989, thousands of people from various nations and beliefs gathered in North Korea for a grand student festival that championed peace, friendship, and anti-imperialism. Here is a documentary about the festival that took place at a pivotal moment in history.

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archive from actress Callie Hernandez's actual late father, the film explores the process of grieving a complicated parent, and the filmmaking itself becomes a part of the process.

A female voice is haunting a male gaze. An archival documentary about three men making images of women, in Romania, from WW II until the Revolution: an engineer filming his daughter, a music professor documenting his family and an aristocrat capturing the summer spent with his wife during wartime. These stories are linked and told by a questioning female narrator whose obsession with the figure of Alexandru P. gets out of hand.

16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry....See more details

Old Mr. Lãzãrescu is suddenly sick and the neighbours call the ambulance. The dying man is shuttled from hospital to hospital as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis. A special screening celebrating the 20th anniversary of a seminal work that triggered the global supremacy of the Romanian New Wave!

Director of Photography: Reem Karssli, David Simon Gross Editor: Mădălina Roșca, Reem Karssli, Andu Radu Producer: Paul Arne Wagner, Mădălina Roșca Production: Make a Point, Passport Productions Festivals: CPH:DOX 2025, doKumentale 2025, Buenos Aires 2025, Sydney 2025 Awards: Human Rights Award - CPH:DOX 2025 FILMOGRAPHY Mădălina Roșca Little Syria (doc, 2025), In the Air (sm/short, 2020), Stolen Rivers (sm/short, 2020), Once Upon a Train (sm/short, 2009), New Year’s Eve 2008 (sm/short, 2009), The Eiffel Tower (sm/short, 2009) Reem Karssli Little Syria (doc, 2025), Every Day, Every Day (sm/short, 2013) Shot over 20 years, Little Syria follows the quest of a brother, his sister and her boyfriend trapped between Syria, from where they ran for their lives, and Europe, which seems at times to embrace them and and then to push them back where they came from.