Vlad Ivanov

A drama set in Bucharest during the "golden" years of Communism, about the horrors of the Securitate, and the brutality and absurdness of its methods used. (imdb)

Jean Claude plays an official who's just been appointed as Second In Command to the U.S. Ambassador at an American Embassy in a small, turbulent Eastern European nation. When local insurgents attempt a coup d'etat, the nation's President takes refuge inside the embassy. The embassy is then besieged by the well-armed insurgents. The U.S. Ambassador is killed in the ensuing action, an now it's up to Jean Claude and the embassy's small detachment of U.S. Marines to fend off the attackers (imdb)

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

The story about a few days in the life of truck driver Georgy seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power. (imdb)

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. (mubi.com)

One cold evening in March, Barbu is tearing down the streets 50 kilometres per hour over the speed limit when he knocks down a child. The boy dies shortly after the accident. A prison sentence of between three and fifteen years awaits. High time for his mother, Cornelia, to intervene. (berlinale.de)

The animated documentary feature-length Crulic The Path to Beyond tells the story of the life of Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from the important Polish Judge. Crulic is brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to start a hunger strike from the day he was arrested, asking for: a meeting with somebody from the Romanian Consulate, a change of the attorney.

Crematorium tells the story of the Bertomeus, a rich family that obtained their fortune after many generations. Rubén Bertomeu left the farm business to create a complex entrepreneurial framework that made him the richest and most powerful man in Misent. The only problem is the closest family doesn't understand progress the same way he does. (Official C+ summary)

After being the sole unfortunate witness of a domestic quarrel that ends up in a murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer, the other one his very own conscience. (imdb)

The story is set in a small Romanian town and focuses on a doctor. (Wikipedia)

A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.

Roman returns to the land he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land. (imdb)

A murder investigation of a slain business man turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime. Based on 2008 New Yorker article by David Grann. (imdb)

Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. (imdb)

A young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before World War I. (imdb)

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)

A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead. (imdb)

The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give into the temptation and choose the easier way of collaborating with the regime, or if he will subject himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police. (imdb)

A young woman tries to fight for a higher education and escape the violence of her dysfunctional family. An ambiguous sexual experience with an artist will be the spur to face violence in his family. (Filmaffinity)

Romania, the autumn of the year 1972. Ana, a 17 year-old teenager, finds out that her boyfriend will flee the country for good in a few days. The two lovers decide to spend their last days together.

Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself.

A dead body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan: it belongs to Anthony Kurz, an American astronaut currently on the ISS. Anna Zarathi, a French astronaut, and Isaak Turgun, a Kazakh cop, set out to solve this mysterious paradox. (imdb)