Raisa

Transit Times

Invalid date •German

A year in the life of a family in a typical backyard in the center of the Moldovan capital Chisinau in the 1990s: Zina lives here with her husband Victor and daughter Eva and, like the other inhabitants of the house, struggles for the family's financial survival. Through the eyes of the family, we experience a country in transition after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Seeds

April 2020 •English

When three generations of women return to post-Soviet Europe to care for an ailing patriarch, they face a corrupt healthcare system and discover a society and a past that both links them together and sets them apart.

Siblings

March 2016 •German

The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.

Varvara

November 2023 •

Sasha works for a natural gas company. When his wife gives birth 2 months early, Sasha is searching for money to save the premature baby. Despite this, he refuses to take bribes, which threatens his job and leads to friction with his colleagues. His wife doesn't understand him anymore. Faced with a crisis, Sasha receives an order to install a furnace in a church, where he will have to destroy an icon painted on the church wall. Hoping to save the sacred image, Sasha has to corrupt the system.

What a Wonderful World

April 2014 •Romanian

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.

Andriesh

January 1981 •

Moldavian fairy tale about young shepherd called Andriesh, who heads off to rescue the good fairy Dona from evil warlock. Based on the poem of the same name by Emilian Bucov.

Children beyond the war

June 2024 •English

Extinction

July 2018 •Portuguese

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory. As in Transnistria, an unrecognized state, seceded from Moldova since 1990. Kolja is a silent witness of how borders and bureaucracy shape the lives of citizens, finally forced to lose their identity.

Constantin di Bessarabia

Invalid date •Italian

Absent

November 2015 •Romanian

For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak honestly or completely about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Filmed entirely on location, the film documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places.

Otona no Doukyuusei

November 2018 •Japanese

A sensual love story that depicts the whereabouts of love that two women with opposite personalities weave around one man. When I was a student, Reiji and Sumire graduated without feelings though they had both feelings. After a while, Reiji reunites with Sumire, who returned from her former girlfriend, Koko. Popular sexy actress, Airi Natsume made her first appearance in a pink movie.

Gifu to shimai: Momojiru ajikurabe

January 2013 •Japanese

Ayaka, a former president's secretary, was married to her son Naoki and had a happy day. One day, when Shinsuke, the president and father of Naoki, was injured and was in need of nursing care, his feelings for Shinsuke who was sleeping inside her and Naoki began to shake. And nursing care will eventually be forbidden sexual care. Ayaka's older sister, Reiko, who lost her job due to the recession appeared there...

El barro humano

May 1955 •Spanish

A marital conflict reaches the courts and becomes public comment.

Jokyôshi himitsu no hôkago

December 2013 •Japanese

A high school teacher, Rina, who has been married for 5 years, seemed to have a happy life on the surface, but in reality she was dissatisfied with her husband's sex with her and wanted to masturbate alone. Was met. One day, her sister, Aki, brought her fiancé. The other party was a student, Sumio, who was held by a new teacher, Rina, to be fucked in an empty classroom. Rina tries to avoid Sumio as much as possible, but he does not allow it, and opens the gap to reach Rina's body and asks for the old relationship. And while Rina is away from her husband, she goes crazy by her sister's fiance, becoming a lewd sister...

3 Minute Heroes

October 1982 •English

"Hello. I'm Billy and I'm going to enjoy myself first." Saturday. Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. Billy, living for Two-Tone music. Adrian, only limping when he walks. Lectric, dressed to kill. Debbo, bored with stereotypes. Rhoda, bored with Elvis. Elvis, playing games. They move around the city in the day, making life happen wherever they are. They come together at nights to listen to their music. For as long as the song lasts, they're heroes. Three minute heroes.

Bunny

August 2020 •Finnish

A short film about two siblings, Tuukka and Lili, who have been living separately in foster care. One night things escalate when Tuukka comes to take his little sister with him to their summer cottage.

Papá, por que quitas a música?

September 2019 •Galician

After going through a difficult economic situation, a father loses his job and becomes depressed. When the relationship with his wife and son deteriorates, they attempt to help him.

The Making Of

Invalid date •English

Long-married filmmakers have cast overemotional actors to portray their younger selves in the story of their great love. Unfortunately, by the time shooting begins, their fabled marriage is unraveling. The filmmakers want to make a hit; the actors want to tell the true story. Whose version really is the truth? And how do they distinguish between real love and movie love when their lives and their work become hopelessly intertwined?

Noise of Silence

February 2021 •Hindi

A story about love and lost; Something that was never told. Something that needs to be shown. An agony and betrayal in a journey of a young woman's life who is out to search for her mother.

Home

July 2016 •

When the path to safety has been destroyed and you’re forced to abandon your life because the enemy is at the gates, all that’s left to do, is save your home in your heart.