Vlad Ivanov
2) Dogs
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Romanian
Description
One of the most acclaimed directorial debuts of recent years, and the winner of the coveted FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Bogdan Mirică’s DOGS is the most haunting and gruesome Western to come out of Europe in decades. DOGS begins with an elegant tracking shot through a marshland near the Black Sea, eventually landing on a severed foot, bobbing in the swampy water. Soon after, we meet Roman (Dragoș...
3) Servants
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Slovak
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects. Michal and Juraj, students of a theological seminary, must decide if they will collaborate with the government or becoming targets of the secret police.
4) Graduation
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Romanian
Description
Acclaimed filmmaker Cristian Mungiu returns with this searing human saga about a father driven to extremes in order to protect his daughter's future. Winner Best Director, Cannes
5) Child's Pose
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Romanian
Description
Luminita Gheorghiu (*The Death of Mr. Lazarescu*) stars as a steely, well-to-do Bucharest architect determined to keep her 30-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses and even the victim’s family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European...
6) Servants
Author
Language
Slovak
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. Servants follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...