Films

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A hybrid documentary with dark humour in which actor Sergiu Voloc becomes a contemporary Don Quixote, waging an absurd battle against Lenin monuments across Moldova and against a system that seems to rebuild them every night.

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In a Moldovan village, 42-year-old Elena divides her life between work, family and community engagement. Known for her volunteer initiatives and for dressing as Santa Claus every year, Elena decides to run for local office, turning personal emancipation into a political act.

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Guided by letters left by her grandmother, Olga Lucovnicova travels with her father to an isolated town in the Ural Mountains to reconnect with her Russian family and uncover a deeply buried secret. As she tries to piece together the past, Russia starts a new war, and personal memory collides with the violence of the present.

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Inspired by the tragedy of Fântâna Albă on 1 April 1941, the film reconstructs the fate of a Romanian community from Bessarabia, massacred while desperately trying to escape Soviet occupation. The testimony of a survivor becomes the starting point for a reflection on trauma, memory and historical truth.

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Searching for a lost psychotronic weapon, Dragoș Turea explores the secrets of psychotronic warfare and the USSR’s involvement in developing technologies that allegedly used the power of the mind for military purposes. His journey through Moldova and Ukraine uncovers a hidden world at the border between science, parapsychology, propaganda and control.

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A documentary portrait of Vera Derevyanko, a former milkmaid from Odesa who became a refugee at the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Living in the Palanca camp on the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, Vera refuses more comfortable accommodation in order to remain as close as possible to her home and to her children under bombardment. The film follows her resilience at the border between loss, hope and change.

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A wordless cinematic symphony about everyday life in the Republic of Moldova, filmed across the four seasons in more than 100 locations on both banks of the Dniester River. The film builds a contemporary visual archive of Moldovan towns and villages, capturing the rhythms, gestures and landscapes of a country in constant transformation.

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Haunted by broken family relations and by the ghost of an unfinished family house in Moldova, Ksenia, a young film director studying abroad, embarks on a deeply personal journey. She tries to reconnect with her father, a cargo pilot who spent years flying missions in Eastern Africa, by giving him a camera to film his own world. Their return to Moldova opens a painful confrontation with absence, migration and transgenerational trauma.

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This film aims to showcase the tumultuous history of the Moldovan theatre "Mihai Eminescu" throughout its 100 years of existence.

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Tatarbunar continues a series of cinematic investigations based on archival materials and historical documents, following Muguri de-nviere, Binecuvântare, Limba noastră and Pași pe graniță.

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A film about actors who are familiar to the wider public. The documentary's creators explore the broader challenges facing culture in a consumer society.

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The film is based on the confessions of four protagonists who were forcibly picked up and sent to Siberia in the second wave of deportations on the night of July 6-7, 1949. Each segment has a separate story, and as a whole, they point to the horrors and the dramas that tens of thousands of Bessarabians went through during the Stalinist period.

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“Steps on the Border” is a documentary dedicated to our identity in its territorial definition. The film follows our current understanding of the place that we belong to and that belongs to us. It is a film about our history – old and recent – told against the backdrop of the border. This documentary aspires to walking us freely on the border, exploring it. Gradually, exploration turns into a journey into history and towards others, coagulating around it the discovery of other “borderline” human experiences. ”Steps on the Border” is about “our world,” which is, it turns out, not within the borders of a country, but, in fact, is found in our minds and hearts rather than on maps.

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Alexandra Conunov is a violonist born in the Republic of Moldova, known to the public all over the world. She lives her life in the depth of music, and for this she has to laugh and cry, go on the big stages of the world and walk her child on lost streets of unknown cities.

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Under Nikita Khrushchev's leadership (1958–1964), the Soviet government had a secret plan to turn the current Republic of Moldova into an experimental garden. They wanted to find out if atomic energy could improve local agricultural output. A thought-provoking documentary that draws on 10 years of research. Stimulated by his grandmother’s lethal illness and her memories of some mysterious agricultural experiments in the past, Moldavian filmmaker Dragoș decides to investigate why the cancer rate has increased in his home country lately and whether there is some connection between the fatal statistics and these secret scientific endeavours. This very personal documentary digs into rare found footage in order to portray the industrial shock imposed on Moldova by the Soviet State while unveiling the secret plan of Nikita Khrushchev to transform Moldova into the Soviet Garden through the application of atomic energy in agriculture.

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In an abandoned house in the commune of Roșietici, Florești, an impressive archive of negatives and photographs from the 50s was discovered. The negatives belong to Zaharia Cușnir, amateur photographer, and contain rare scenes from the everyday life of residents from several villages situated on the middle channel of the Răut River. These images of great artistic and documentary value populate the villages that have become deserted today.

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The history of national cinema has been turbulent, troubled and severely tested. Its origins date back to 1930, followed by continuous development. Moldova-Film studio was founded in 1952 and went on to produce an increasing number of films featuring many celebrated actors. Filmmakers could not shoot whatever they wished: every screenplay was scrutinized by the censors, and those who did not comply were excluded from the creative process.

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The Cliffs of the Prut are a chain of limestone formations trailing along the Prut River for almost 200 km. This reef chain consists of the remains of various organisms: corals, mollusks, sea urchins, algae, shells, and other creatures, and ages between 10 to 20 million years. Although taken under state protection, in the last few years, the Cliffs of the Prut have faced massive destruction due to greed and desire for enrichment through the extraction and sale of stones.

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Without him, Romanian poetry would be like a piano missing some keys, this is how Eugen Cioclea was introduced at some point. The son of country teachers, he managed, in fortunate circumstances, to study mathematics at the prestigious Mikhail Lomonosov University in Moscow. Marrying the daughter of a senior secretary of the Communist Party opens many doors for him, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union he decides to return to Kishinev, where he becomes the most colorful name of the local community of writers. Here is his story.