Varvara

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.

2023-11-06 | mo

Siblings

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

2016-03-01 | de

What a Wonderful World

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.

2014-04-04 | ro

Transit Times

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.

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Seeds

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.

2020-04-09 | en

Absent

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.

2015-11-10 | ro

Extinction

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.

2018-07-20 | pt

Children beyond the war

2024-06-11 | en

Andriesh

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.

1981-01-01 | ro

Not alone

Mothers and fathers of gay, lesbian and trans people from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Russia and Ukraine have come to Berlin pride 2024. This documentary shows them as they are living together preparing for pride, the first pride for many in this group. The parents make placards, prepare borsch and talk about their relationships with their queer children.

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Constantin di Bessarabia

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Romantic Destinies

On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities.

1981-01-01 | ro

Panther

Terrorism has become the biggest enemy of mankind in today's time, and we often fall prey to their inhuman acts. Despite our desperate attempts, we fail to stop the terrorist organizations from harming us. But is this the reality - no reality is often different from what it seems to be. The story is a detailed account of Panther's mission. Panther was alone in the mission but love for the Country never let him feel lonely. He traveled to 3 different Countries and faced the most dangerous and risky situations, but finally come up trump. He ensures that no further attack was conducted in India. And since the mission was a covert operation without the Indian Government's consent, it remained hidden from one and all. The story shall present the inspirational story to every India and people Worldwide. Panther's determination, his love for the Country and his fearless persona help him accomplish this task, which wouldn't have been possible for anyone else.

2019-08-09 | bn

Plain Jane

Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.

2002-05-27 | en

British by the Grace of God

Set in Scotland during the summer of the 'Brexit' referendum, British by the Grace of God follows Irene as she struggles to find her place in the world as a mother and wife.

2017-08-09 | en

Vincas Krėvė: Skirgaila

The Grand Duke of Lithuania Skirgaila locks up the Duchess of Lida Ona Duonute in his castle and forces her to marry him.

1992-01-01 | lt

Vain kaksi tuntia

In this story, which focuses on the events of a single evening, Kaarlo Kaarila, a dedicated chief physician, discovers that his wife Irja is having an affair with Dr. Alec von Wentell. The hospital's head nurse, Sister Magda, longs for Kaarila but suppresses her feelings. Irja's car accident sets off a series of dramatic events that force everyone to reevaluate their values in life.

1949-04-29 | fi

Murder at 1600

A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.

1997-04-18 | en