Films

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Oleg, a 25-year-old man recently released from prison, returns to his native village hoping to rebuild his life and stay out of trouble. Living in the attic of his cousin's house, he tries to remain unnoticed.

His life changes when he meets a young neighbour whom the villagers call “the Turkish girl.” Their unexpected relationship forces them to confront their past, the prejudices around them and their own fears.

“Turkish Girl. A Fight for Love” is a Moldovan romantic comedy about love, forgiveness and the chance to start again.

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New Year’s Eve, 1999. A man is shot dead during a hunting party. Agachi, a young investigator at the beginning of his career, is sent from the capital to determine whether it was murder or an accident. What appears to be a simple case soon becomes a test of conscience.

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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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Moldova, 1997. Six years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a family in Chisinau lives in a shared courtyard and struggles to survive a harsh social transition. Through the lives of Zina, Victor and their daughter Eva, the film portrays a country caught between the memory of the past and the uncertainty of the future.

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Two families from the same village fall into conflict over the boundary line between their yards, each side convinced that justice is on its side. The dispute spirals out of control just as their children are supposed to get married.

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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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Alina, a nurse and single mother, tries to find a large sum of money to cover the debt of her son Radu, who is in danger of going to prison. Her effort to save him confronts her with an unexpected ethical dilemma and almost impossible moral choices.

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In her attempt to terminate a pregnancy, a young woman faces one of the first major decisions of her adult life. The film follows the tension between fear, vulnerability, social pressure and the need to regain control over her own body and life.

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A talented pianist and his eight-year-old son struggle to find a place to sell vegetables at the biggest market in Moldova in the 2000s. When the father seems to give up under the burden of a precarious existence, a gesture from his son brings new hope.

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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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Maria lives a quiet life with her son Marinel, waiting for her husband, who works abroad, to return. The arrival of Felicia, her childhood friend and now a soprano in Vienna, together with her husband Mario, disrupts the family’s balance. The film speaks about destinies, the cycle of life and the place of women in family and society.

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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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Varvara, a philosophy professor, discusses the death of God and the presence of irrational evil in human nature with her students. The visit of her sister Angelina, a gynaecologist sent to reduce the number of abortions in the city of X, triggers a descent into an unstable moral and spiritual territory.

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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 snowstorm throws an emperor penguin colony in Antarctica into chaos. A penguin mother is swept away by the wind and separated from the flock, searching for her egg and later for her chick. As the ice melts and food becomes harder to find, the story becomes a delicate parable about climate crisis, responsibility and the fragility of life.

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During the 1992 war in Transnistria, Cossacks requisition several horses from the guard of a collective farm to transport the wounded to hospital. After the war ends, the guard is accused by the local police of selling the horses to the soldiers and must choose between prison and paying a large sum of money. He sets out in search of the lost horses.

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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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The carefree life of a pampered kitten in a farming household changes dramatically overnight when he discovers that his owners have mysteriously disappeared. Overcoming his fears, he sets out to follow their trail, only to face a harsh reality and lose his innocence forever.

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Oana Pfifer, a young therapist, visibly distracted by some unknown reasons is slipping little by little inside the net of the questionary she is supposed to submit to her client. Mihai Dumitru, Oana’s younger brother, worrying about the preparations for his anniversary and not realizing how inappropriate his demands are, is founding himself caught inside a story far bigger than he can take. Septimiu Pfifer, Oana’s husband, concerned about his state of health regarding a possible contamination with SARS COV 2, is vaguely listening to a strange story his ambulance colleague was caught inside long ago, while waiting for the next emergency call. Narcis Patranescu, an organized crime inspector, perturbed by the recent death of one of his colleagues, is finding himself caught inside an unsettling dark story while interrogating a young woman during a funeral. Four short moments in time that are capturing the wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.

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End of World War 2. Nicu, a teenager whose father went to war never to return, works with the family horses pulling logs down the mountain. When more German soldiers retreating from the Russian front arrive in the village and seize his horses, Nicu takes them back and runs away in the forest trying to save them.

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Damian – from a small village in Moldova who studies medicine, hates physical labor, finds a summer job in Moscow at a hospital where he hopes that he will learn medicine and become a doctor. When he gets to Moscow, it turns out that he will be working illegally at the local morgue carrying bodies for a small tip. He fights his repulsion and starts gaining money for his future studies. He meets the students and audits lectures proving his medical knowledge. He starts chatting with Nina, a student from Moscow, but soon she finds out his real story. When he is about to leave, he finds his friend’s body and has to decide between paying to bring the body back to the village or keeping all the money he gained. He takes the body back home becoming the hero of his community. Soon people ask him for medical advice and he starts gaining some money and can leave the village to continue his studies in Moldova or even in the Russian capital.

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Sasha works for a natural-gas company. When his wife hardly gives birth 2 months earlier, 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.

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A state of emergency is declared in the Republic of Moldova because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A film director and his family leave the city and take refuge in the countryside throughout the quarantine. Confronted with the new realities of life, the director conceives a film about the creative person's mission in a modern world increasingly dominated by immorality and a lack of spirituality. An artist who has devoted his work to love for humanity is forced into an open confrontation with a new force that threatens civilization…

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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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Moldova in the early 90s: Dima, a tractor driver, want to enlist for the military troops taking part in the local war on the Transnistrian border. Vasea, an Afghan war veteran, joins him. While on their way to the front, they find a carbonised body. The authorities ignore them and won't help them to identify the body. Dima and Vasea decide to bury the corpse according to the proper Christian rituals, but not before setting out, together with the body, on an absurd journey to discover his identity.

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On the outskirts of a Moldovan village lives a lonely grandmother. As a daily ritual, she takes care of her garden and her little farm, waiting for a visit or just some news from her children or grandchildren. One summer day, all grandmother’s routine breaks down when the water in the well disappears and local River dries up.

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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 story of an elderly woman who has endured many hardships offers a stark view of contemporary life. Through the experiences of this blind woman in her eighties, migration emerges as a painful reality that reveals people's character and inner qualities.

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Andrei, recently retired, decides to go work abroad. He is about to discover that his new workplace won't be an easy one.

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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.

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Maria is the prototype of the woman from Moldova: she lived her life next to a depraved, petty husband, who abused her physically and psychologically, being sure that these things are normal in society and the woman must endure and endure.

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Edmund and Mari wake up in the morning in a foreign city, trying to find out who they are and where their house is. Everyone behaves as if they know them, only they don't remember anything, but then they understand that they can't leave this place anymore, they are closed and only a lottery chooses who are leaving the place. All their attempts to find out fail.

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David and Lauren were once a happy couple. Now they are separated, and their six-year-old son, Lucas, is in hospital. An encounter with a little girl named Charlotte will change their lives forever.

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Pigeon's Milk sketches the psychological portrait of Adrian, a teenager from the left bank of the Dniester. For the first time, he discovers the darker shades of reality: his first love, his first choice and his first fall.

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Les Oubliés means The Forgotten in French. Written and directed by Mihai Țărnă, the film reveals a world suspended between memory and courage, love and fear. Its story is universal: it could have happened anywhere, in antiquity, the Renaissance, the Middle Ages or the Cold War. War has no nationality, yet it takes aim at nations…

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This is the story of a grey man who is always sighing. Living in a grey city covered in smog, he keeps on sighing until he dries out and becomes skin and bones. But even in the darkest corners of the soul there is light and color.

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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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In a poor village near the Transnistrian border, after the war of 1992, there is a mined field, still active. Zinca and Victor, two Moldavian children suddenly lose the cows on the mined territory and try to get them back.

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Zyx, a lizard and self-proclaimed leader, Vaco, a gentle little cow, and Alex, a timid moose, try to escape the house at any cost to attend the premiere of a long-awaited film. Meanwhile, Alex's mother does everything she can to make the friends do what they consider the most dreadful thing in the world: clean up.

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Kolya - a former European youth champion in gymnastics who is now a patient at a psychiatric hospital and for a cigarette he is ready to make any pirouette. He does not smoke the obtained cigarettes though, but collects them into a secret suitcase that is already filled with hundreds of cigarettes of different brands. In the end we find out why and for whom Kolya keeps these strange collection.

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This tragicomedy addresses an urgent and important subject. It portrays today's towns and villages, where everything—and above all the human spirit—is deteriorating. By showing the effects of migration, the film seeks to raise public awareness of this painful chapter in the nation's history.

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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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In a dark and frightening forest, a little boy and his pet try to find his mother. Afraid and without hope, they face hostile creatures standing between them and a place of refuge.

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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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Out from the orphanage and after the first experiences, Mara decides to return to the home of her parents who have mysteriously died in an accident many years ago. Mara begins a new life: a new job, a boyfriend Eric, everything seems to work well. But the news that someone has come back to live in that house does not like to Werner Gruber, a German who years ago was the mayor of Westfield and lived in that house. Mara begins to be followed and is invited to leave the city immediately, but she continues to ignore all the threats and understands that actually someone knows and conceals the truth about the death of her parents. From the postman, Mara finds out who is the killer, for which the postman loses his life. Werner's wife, Harriet Gruber, advices Mara of the danger that she risks, but the situation is going out of control as for Mara to for killer. What happens next is essential, being one of the most controversial upheavals in the story.

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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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After many years of wandering abroad due to a family helmet, Afanasie, a former well-sinker, decides to return home to his native village. Afanasie wants to start life from the beginning, and for this, he thinks, he must finish digging the well in his yard, abandoned many years ago. But first, Afanasie must go through a soul-cleansing, because "there is no greater punishment for a sinner than finding no reconciliation with himself.

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Soapy, a lonely man, wants to spend the winter in the island prison. He devises plans to get there, but many of them are doomed to fail.

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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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Two years ago, the American guests planted two thousand trees on the meadow at edge of the village. Now, they want to see how their plantation is doing. The Mayor quickly heads to the meadow to check the state of the plantation. Much to his dismay, the villagers’ goats have already eaten all the trees.

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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.

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The story of a young man who only begins to live after he dies. The main hero is given the chance to live one last 365 days. This is how he discovers God and true values.

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A tragic accident kills a husband and leaves his wife, Eva, severely injured but alive. What seems like a closed chapter continues when Eva returns home after a long hospital stay. The house is empty and cold, with covered mirrors recalling the bleak day of the funeral—a fateful day that leaves no room for a new life. The mirrors become Eva's nightmare, and the terrifying sensations they evoke leave her in no doubt that paranormal forces haunt the house.

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Un tînăr se luptă cu un stol de porumbei care îi pun în pericol maşina proaspăt vopsită.