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- DirectorGeorgi BogdanovBoris MissirkovThe life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.
- DirectorAnton CorbijnPasqual GutierrezJohn MerizaldeStarsDepeche ModeMartin GoreAndrew FletcherA look at Depeche Mode's final moments of their 2017 Global Spirit Tour, featuring intimate stories from select fans.
- DirectorIlinca CalugareanuStarsIrina Margareta NistorTeodor ZamfirMircea CojocaruIn the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.
- DirectorCristian DelceaMihai VoineaStarsMadeleine AlbrightIlie AlexandruIoan AmarieTwo journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.
- DirectorLaurentiu CalciuAfter the end of the Ceausescu regime, Romania is a country in search of a democratic government that the people can trust, but now it's hard to find someone that is not tainted by the past.
- DirectorAndrei UjicaStarsNicolae CeausescuElena CeausescuStefan AndreiThe film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
- DirectorTyler MeasomPatrick WaldropStarsTori AmosJack AntonoffJeff AyeroffIn 1981, a new channel burst onto the rising spectrum of cable TV offerings. It became a touchstone for young people and a new format for musicians and filmmakers to show off their talents.
- DirectorAlexandru SolomonStarsGeorge BecaliGeorge CoposDan DiaconescuAn imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country's businessmen.
- DirectorIsy MorgenszternStarsJackie BerroyerAntoine de GaudemarClaire EtcherelliCovers the life of Maoist leader Benny Lévy from the French so-called Revolution in 1968 to an Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel.
- StarsLance AcordK.K. BarrettEva CanreraA curious closer look to the filming of Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" A behind the scenes short film that takes the audience to follow the cast and crew through some of the locations in Japan, sharing great moments together despite a tight schedule; filming through loud and crowded streets; the eminence of a typhoon during one of their very first days of shooting and other minor problems.
- DirectorTom JenningsDavid TillmanStarsKing Charles IIIPrincess DianaPrince HarryThis documentary uses the recordings Princess Diana made for the book that was written by Andrew Morton. In this documentary Diana narrates her life and the events that surrounded her.
- DirectorDaniel LindsayT.J. MartinStarsHenry AlfaroDanny BakewellJohn D. BarnettTwenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.
- CreatorJoe BerlingerStarsStephen MichaudBob KeppelKathleen McChesneyA look inside the mind of serial killer Ted Bundy, featuring interviews with him on death row.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreCharlton HestonMarilyn MansonFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
- DirectorHarun FarockiAndrei UjicaStarsIon CaramitruElena CeausescuNicolae CeausescuThis documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
- DirectorHarun Farocki
- DirectorHarun FarockiAn advertising firm has a business meeting with a client.
- DirectorHarun FarockiStarsKaja SilvermanAre today's advertising photographers continuing in the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters? This is one theory director Harun Farocki poses in his documentary STILL LIFE. According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers also depict objects from everyday life - the "still life". The filmmaker illustrates this intriguing hypothesis with three documentary sequences showing photographers at work creating a contemporary STILL LIFE: a cheese-board, beer glasses and an expensive watch.
- DirectorCharlie ShackletonStarsFairuza BalkBeyond Clueless is a dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the eyes of over 200 modern coming-of-age classics.
- DirectorDominique CabreraEdmée Doroszlai
- DirectorNora AgapiProfessor Ioan-Matei Agapi, an 80-year-old photographer and cameraman from Iasi, Romania, owns a unique collection of 16mm films and photographs documenting almost fifty years of the city's history. His daughter, also a filmmaker, has decided to make a film about her father's archives. In the unconventional surroundings of his old apartment, he reminisces about the past until one day, Ioan is informed that he must leave or be evicted from the apartment where he has spent the past 40 years. Ioan's years of work suddenly transform into a huge burden, and the film unexpectedly changes into drama in which conflicts with city officials reveal old and hidden conflicts within the family.
- DirectorAna VladAdrian VoicuStarsMihaela AndreiViorel AndreiGheorghe BanuWhile people in Western Europe were used to choose between hundreds of brands, the communist Romanian used to have a different experience: all our life we lived with only one brand for each basic product. Imagine the importance that this 'mono-brands' could acquire for the lives of those who made them and for the lives of those who consumed them. A love story between man and object.
- DirectorAdina PintilieA glimpse at the daily lives of patients in a Romanian psychiatric hospital.
- DirectorMara Trifu
- DirectorCorina RaduOrdinary people sharing the stories of their ordinary lives.