Catalin Cristutiu Movies

One night, just before the holidays, in an empty park, two small-time thugs hold up a strange looking man. Where's the Christmas spirit?

Two different views of the execution of Romanian wartime dictator Ion Antonescu confront one another. On one side is silent footage recorded in 1946...

In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer.

An anthropological study of a small community in Sfântu Gheorghe, where the songs performed by the local choir are an important tradition. We...

Film student Cătălina teams up with ex-rock star Marchizu' to film his comeback music video, but his resemblance to a childhood nightmare...

A young Romanian gendarme, Cristi, tries to find the balance between two apparently opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho...

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone...

One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.

An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.

The life of human beings, seen from birth to old age. Only that this generic life is not represented with humans, but with the artefacts that we the...

An emotional rollercoaster journey within the music and the social transformations of the last 50 years in Romania, seen through the eyes of a famous...

Near by Christmas, in an old and charming town in Transylvania, Sebastian and Aprilia start a beautiful love story. However, nothing is as simple as...

Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted by the communist regime, is considered holy by many believers, although he has yet to be...

Punish: a reading of parts of a novel in which a military officer gives a clinical, amoral account about his role in the violent oppression of...

How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team...

Three men go into a pub. The first man has too many questions. The second man has the perfect plan. The third man has no chance.

A cinematic analysis of a photo album made by a Romanian Army unit in WW2.

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties....

A devoted soldier of the Taliban's ideology that has shaped his destiny since birth, Samim (23) struggles between the alluring promises of martyrdom...

From the music of Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi, Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude crafts a coda to Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the...