Vlad is leaving for the city to start working as a bartender. On the way, he finds out that his father has suddenly got sick. Forced to come back, he finds the family bar locked and Ursu, his father, laying on a table inside.
“Why me?” focuses on some of the aspects of the New Romanian Cinema, using its own aesthetics. The short film describes the ridicule situation three film-makers create when all their paths to “glory” seem to be blocked. The only solution they find to their problem is an extreme one.
Moldova in the early 90s: Dima, a tractor driver, wants to be enrolled in the military troops to take 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 carbonized 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.
Soare is a musician with too little inspiration and too many neurons baked from smoking weed. One day, he decides that his life has become too chaotic, so he begins writing a guide for surviving the moments when his reality stops making sense. Passing various surreal episodes, Soare hopes to regain his inspiration.
Directed by four different filmmakers and produced by different production companies, these four short films share a common theme - life and death - and a common origin - all four are independent productions made with a little help from all our friends.
Victor Rebengiuc is an unknown actor from Bucharest. He is called to audition for a "miracle lotion" commercial. A satire about the actors' problems in Romania.
Ana is 30 years old and lives with her parents. As her ex-husband takes their daughter and her nagging mother to the countryside, she prepares for a laidback evening with her friends. Soon she comes to realize she lost her cell phone which prevents her from receiving a much awaited call from her previous night's stand. Her friends, Iulia, Andrei and Marius, arrive and try to watch a movie. The screening is frequently interrupted by an increasingly annoying and rather absurd dialogue that takes place between the thief/finder of the cell phone and Ana.
Claudiu, who works at the fresh fish department of a supermarket, spends his days watching the live carps struggling to move and breathe in their small, over-packed aquarium. After one of them starts acting strange, the young man decides to take action.
Dan dies in a car accident. He arrives in Paradise and finds out that he is not alone in this place: Laura, the girl he was in love with in high school, is also here. Will the two finally manage to be together?
In a zombie apocalypse, German and Cristina, two self-conscious zombies, hunt for survivor meat to avoid becoming mindless and aimless zombies forever.
In a zombie apocalypse, German and Cristina, two self-conscious zombies, hunt for survivor meat to avoid becoming mindless and aimless zombies forever.
Filiberto Nitales used to be the best detective in the world, however, his girlfriend decides to break up with him so he sinks into a deep depression in which he can't look at himself in the mirror, trying to rejoice with his best friend: a penguin named Topi, everything seems to be fine until a dark villain appears from a magic can of laughter to confront Nitales, a fight will come between them to see who will be the resounding winner.
Filiberto Nitales used to be the best detective in the world, however, his girlfriend decides to break up with him so he sinks into a deep depression in which he can't look at himself in the mirror, trying to rejoice with his best friend: a penguin named Topi, everything seems to be fine until a dark villain appears from a magic can of laughter to confront Nitales, a fight will come between them to see who will be the resounding winner.
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