Stefan Iordache

a 1001 nights story that takes place in the inferno. The role of Seherazada is played by a professor of music in the 1950s, the years of the worst repression under the Communist rule, the years when people just disappeared from the streets swallowed into hell by black cars, investigated and condemned for imaginary reasons by a regime that after having liquidated physically its enemies had to search permanently for new ones in order to justify the existence of its institutions of repression... (dan.romascanu.net)

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 the '30s a man is obsessed with a painting of a woman that reminds him of his long-lost mother. He models his girlfriend exactly after the woman in the painting and after she attempts to commit suicide she is committed to a sanatorium. (Julien M.)

After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity. (imdb)

In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and social stratification are the main focus. (imdb)