Moldova

  • Igor Cobileanski – La limita de jos a cerului AKA The Unsaved (2013)

    Drama2011-2020Igor CobileanskiMoldova
    La limita de jos a cerului (2013)
    La limita de jos a cerului (2013)

    Synopsis
    The Unsaved is a drama about about a Sancho Panza and not a Don Quijote. It’s about the every day’s non-hero facing circumstances and not adventures, it’s about Viorel, a 25-year-old fledgling drug dealer, from a backwater little town in the contemporary Republic of Moldova. He lives at home with his mother, his ears get red when he’s nervous and he lets his days pass in the usual “laissez-faire” Moldavian style. He gets involved through his best friend, Goose, in small-time drug dealing, while helping him to fly a hang glider that never seems to work properly; and he falls in love with Maria, the girl who happens to cut his hair. This easy-going existentialism precipitates several possibilities, which find our hero trapped in his own indecisiveness, so finally he reckons the moment has come for him to start growing up and act like an adult. Read More »

  • Otilia Babara – Love Is Not an Orange (2022)

    2021-2030DocumentaryMoldovaOtilia Babara

    Quote:
    In the early 90’s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became a ritual among thousands of families. Video cameras and presents allowed these mothers and children to share glimpses of their realities while being apart. As time passed, it became clear that the mothers’ return was an increasingly distant prospect. Children turned into teenagers and, disillusioned, they stopped recording. Through these intimate private archives, Otilia Babara, a Moldovan filmmaker living in Brussels, depicts the fragility of family bonds through the eyes of a generation of mothers and daughters who were forced to live apart in order to survive. While doing so, she portrays a post-soviet country caught in a crossroads of history. A country whose women were unwittingly put in charge of making the transition from communism to capitalism.
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  • Emil Loteanu – Poienile rosii AKA Red Meadows (1966)

    1961-1970DramaEmil LoteanuMoldova

    IMDb wrote:
    To save their flocks from the heat and the sun, the shepherds of a Soviet cooperative farm decide to take them to a fertile but remote place. A journalist and the beautiful daughter of one of them accompany them in their long journey. Folklore melodrama praising the truth and the beauty inherently tied to nature and folk rituals.Read More »

  • Valeriu Andriuta – Eu sunt Dorin AKA I am Dorin (2020)

    2011-2020DramaMoldovaShort FilmValeriu Andriuta

    IMDb wrote:
    Dorin, a young man from the country, agrees for money, to take an exam for a Bachelor’s Degree on behalf of someone else. He’s got just one night to prepare and get in character, while facing social awkwardness and the absurdity of a flawed system.Read More »

  • Natalia Shaufert – Resentiment (2019)

    2011-2020DramaMoldovaNatalia ShaufertWar

    At the age of 30, Galina is looking for love, but meets a good soldier only for war.Read More »

  • Igor Cobileanski – Sasa, Grisa & Ion (2006)

    2001-2010ComedyIgor CobileanskiMoldovaShort Film

    Synopsis:
    Three maintenance technicians, sent off to dig up and repair a faulty cable find themselves at odds with the blistering cold outside, a bottle of vodka and their own ingenuity.Read More »

  • Emil Loteanu – Lautarii (1973)

    1971-1980CultEmil LoteanuEpicMoldova

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    Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her. Written by Markku KuoppamäkiRead More »

  • Igor Cobileanski – Cand se stinge lumina AKA When the Lights Go Out (2006)

    2001-2010ComedyIgor CobileanskiMoldovaShort Film

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    A short comic flick by a Moldavian director. Enjoy!Read More »

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