Gheorghe Dinica

From Debrecen to Las Vegas - the story of a gymnast. (Katapult Film)

Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money. (imdb)

Film was structured around Caragiale's play D-ale carnavalului, and included portions from several other writings--including 1 Aprilie. (wikipedia.org)

15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman learns some shocking truths that were kept hidden from her: Cristina ran away from home, is a drug addict and has a 2-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. Overwhelmed by guilt, Luiza attempts to save her daughter and thus redeem the mistakes of her youth. (imdb)

Death stalks a Rumanian patriot who killed a man during a 1907 uprising. After spending 10 years in prison for this crime, he finds his wife has remarried and his lands have been confiscated. He serves in World War I and returns to his beloved mountains to try to live peaceably, but official suspicion remains, and he is pursued by the police for crimes committed by others. (allmovie.com)

Frant Tandara, former torturer in Romanian prisons, is ready to confess his crimes to a journalist and a former political prisoner. The two meet him at the train station in Giurgiu, where Tandara, a man with a shy demeanor, welcomes them by offering them flowers. But the confession presents problems right from the start: the tape recorder does not work, Tandara talks too fast or too slow... (film.com)

A young man in communist Romania tries to find out what really happened when he was arrested and accused of a terrible crime, and released a few years later, while still affected by his sinister experience.

Adaptation of the novel "The Apprenticeship of Ionut" the first part of the novel "Jderi Brothers" by Mihail Sadoveanu.

After a bloody revolution in December 1989, Romania is slowly discovering that the old communist apparatchiks still have the power and they become the new capitalists. Dissidents of the old regime become dissidents in the new society, wondering if their sacrifice was in vain. The never ending transition is affecting a non-conformist worker and his family in many wicked ways.

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience. (imdb)

the story of a professor of philosophy whose life is crushed after he is imprisoned on false accusations at the end of the Stalinist era. Basically the first part of the film tells the story of his fight for survival in prison, the second describes his tentative to regain his life after being released. His release is actually only apparent, Romania of the 60s asks from him different types of compromises and crimes, but yet his fight for survival is as tough morally as in prison. (imdb)

In post-Ceausescu Bucharest, everybody is struggling to make a living. Vasile Potop, a movie theatre manager, tries to find the money for an abortion for his wife Carolina because he cannot afford to raise three kids. He tries to borrow from his attractive ticket seller Stela, but she quits the theatre and becomes a hooker. He then tries to sell his copy of Ceausescu's book that was not destroyed in the revolution, but that leads him into all kinds of trouble. (Will Gilbert)

A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl. (imdb)

Gypsy Heart is a story about love and passion, dreams and restrictions, ambition and failure. Codrut, a young Gypsy man with ambitions to become a doctor and integrate the Romanian community, must obey the traditions of his ethnic group. But he falls in love with Irina, a very rich and spoiled Romanian girl whose father wants her to marry Luca, a successful businessman. (imdb)