Șerban Pavlu

An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.

Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.

Three men from a provincial town are in urgent need of money and decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but soon after their ticket gets stolen.

A gang of office workers must do anything to save their jobs. Things get out of control when they go on a team building.

In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.

The Bucharest's suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a one-night stand. It would end with a marriage, if...

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its queen on her mission to Paris to lobby for international recognition of its great unification at the 1919 peace talks.

An artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.

Cosmin plays a tennis game with 3 friends. He looks at the clock and starts panicking: he is late to the Registry Office, to a wedding- his wedding, with his ex-wife, who he had divorced without his friends knowing. Everything sta...

Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that...

Delia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.

Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.

A bartender-combiner urgently needs to pay off a debt. He persuades his brother, a fiery bouncer, to arrange a bachelor party together, without the knowledge of the owners of the club where he works.

A couple of weeks after his wife Ioana dies in a car crash, drunk and alone on the night he turns 42, Alexandru receives a visit. Sebastian, a shy, younger man, has been Ioana's lover for the past five months. Sebastian has an out...

The hero is a retired army officer in the period of transition in Romania from the Communist rule to democracy. As many aged people during these times he loses a lot in position and material situation and is too aged to adapt and ...

At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their fav...

The story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.

When a flood strikes Costache's village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help...

The story takes place in 2010, in a post-communist Romania, in which some of those who fully lived in the communist period don't seem to fit anymore. The main character and her husband are about to receive a visit from their daugh...

A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.

The story of Alice T., who gets pregnant at only 16 years old, and the relationship with her adoptive mother.

In mid-'80s Romania, a gifted mathematician is under investigation for plans to publish a new theorem by smuggling it overseas.

Magda offers her necklace to a sick child. Her father is certain she is lying, and when she proves her innocence, he is incapable of admitting he was wrong. Their relationship is broken and past decisions have irreversible consequ...

Two boys meet during a summer vacation in the late '90s in a romanian town located on the Danube shore, a few days before the summer eclipse. They become close friends, until one of their actions will cause powerful consequences.

A story of transformation and hope in a time of turmoil and terror.

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

Tavi,a forty-year-old divorced father, comes to his ex-wife's home to repair his four-year-old daughter bike, Alexandra. He realizes with amazement that Alexandra does not call him "Daddy" any more. He asks an explanation from his...

After the suspicious death of his best friend Nic, Stefan, a fifty-year-old businessman, uncovers the unknown part of their relationship and has to come to terms with his new life.

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

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?

A protesting writer finds out that her husband has been a Securitate informant for 20 years. The story makes the media headlines. In 24 infernal hours, the couple reevaluate their lives to decide how and if they can continue.

A bloody thriller (sort of Agatha Christie does The Twilight Zone) morphs into its own "making of", a really talky one - a conversation about film, about fear, about fiction. The type of film where the less you know, the better.