I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
3.52018HD
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
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 tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets...
The film written and directed by Radu Jude starts from the gesture of defiance against Russia made in 1905 by the sailors on the cruiser Potemkin, who received political asylum in Romania. In 2021, a sculptor (played by Alexander Dabija) is trying to make a work inspired by this event.
A Dying Leaf Should Be Able to Carry the Weight of the World
02024HD
A Dying Leaf Should Be Able to Carry the Weight of the World is a visit to the botanical garden and museum in Cluj-Napoca, a journey through time and space, a discovery of plants with unknown stories, of plants that don’t exist anymore, of plants that can tell us as much about the past as they...
Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted by the communist regime, is considered holy by many believers, although he has yet to be canonized.
