Corneliu Porumboiu

Sixteen years after the Revolution and just days before Christmas, a local television station in Bucharest has invited several guests to share their moments of glory, as they allegedly stormed city hall, chanting "down with Ceasescu!", before Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife fled the presidential palace by helicopter so many years ago. (Tartan USA)

A police officer feels conflicted about arresting a kid for sharing drugs with his friends.

A beautiful morning, a little village's need of the internet and the toilet that the mayor's wife is crying for, bring together the computer empassioned teacher and the mayor's driver for a little trip to the city. (shortfilmcity.com)

A strange dream forgotten in the morning and an unaccountable feeling of frustration and anxiety about his never born brother are making Liviu view the world he lives in with resignation. Will his awakening open the door for a brighter future? (shortfilmcity.com)

A director (Bogdan Dumitrache) with two weeks left on his latest film fakes an ulcer in order to delay production and pursue a romance with his lead actress and muse (Diana Avramut). (tiff.net)

"I was seven. The phone rang. A man told me I had to convince my father to give up refereeing. He said that, if I failed, one day he would come home in a coffin." As the director and his father watch a 1988 football match refereed by the father, their commentary accompanies the original images, creating a family portrait bridging the past and present through shared reminiscence of individual experience. (alternativa.cccb.org)

A young man wants to get away from his native village, where drunkness has become a way of living. To fulfill his dream of getting to UK, he only has one task left - the medical checkup. In the end, this turns into an unexpected obstacle.

Costi leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favourite is Robin Hood. One evening, his neighbour pays him an unexpected visit and shares a secret: there's treasure buried in his grandparents' garden, he's sure of it. If Costi will hire a metal detector to help locate it, he'll give him half of whatever they get. (Wild Bunch)

One day, Laurentiu, the brother of a childhood friend of director Corneliu Porumboiu, decided to change the rules of football and tried without much success to promote the new sport. This prompted the director to want to know more about football: after all his father played football and hoped that he would become a professional player. What made Laurentiu want to break the rules? Was not it an attempt to point out how important freedom is?

A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from a prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language which includes hissing and spitting. (imdb)