Program Cinemateca Eforie

Directed by: Marcin Wierzchowski Documentary – Germany – 2025 – 132 min Section: Past Continuous The film shows the story of the 2020 racist attack in the German city of Hanau, from the perspective of the survivors and the bereaved. Within minutes, nine young people were murdered for looking ”non-German”....See more details

Directed by: Raisa Răzmeriță Documentary – Republic of Moldova, Romania – 2025 – 96 min Section: Focus Moldova In a small Moldovan village, 42-year-old Elena embarks on a journey to break free from social and family conventions and gain control over her life by pursuing her newfound dreams....See more details

Directed by: Lee Anne Schmitt Documentary – USA – 2025 – 75 min Section: Past Continuous “Evidence” is both an analysis of corporate spending and the impact of dark money on US politics and ideology, and a personal meditation on ideas of family and care. In her most personal film to date, Lee Anne Schmitt blends funded archival materials, industrial landscapes, and personal domestic imagery, reflecting on how her own family—by birth and by choice—was shaped within a mythology of capitalism....See more details

Directed by: Jiří Menzel, Krsto Papić, Adrian Sârbu, Péter Dobai Documentary – Cehoslovacia, Iugoslavia, România, Ungaria – 1959-1982 – 68 min Section: SAHIA VINTAGE Connect Line-up: “Panel Housing” / “Domy z panelů”, Jiří Menzel, Czechoslovakia, 1959, 7 min “The Hub” / “Čvor”, Krsto Papić, Yugoslavia, 1969, 12 min “I For One Am Alive and Well....See more details

Directed by: Marina Sulima Documentary – Netherlands – 2024 – 74 min Section: Focus Moldova Consider cutting open a tomato, consider the worlds within. Consider a pickled tomato recipe in a world full of LED-light-grown tomatoes. Consider following tomatoes from closed Dutch greenhouses to Moldova, home to the filmmaker and many workers who leave their own patches to work behind glass walls....See more details

Short film screening with the work of the three directors selected in the Emerging Voices program of One World Romania 19, followed by an extended open talk on how to grow as a filmmaker interested in human rights in an increasingly precarious industry. The selection will be announced shortly. 

Directed by: Rachel Tâpârjan Documentary – Romania, United Kingdom – 2026 – 89 min Section: Past Continuous While helping a woman search for her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into her own family history, uncovering a dark cloud that has long hung over its women....See more details

Directed by: Roberto Beani Documentary – Italy – 2025 – 81 min Section: Past Continuous The Pilastro Neighbourhood is a public housing complex built in the 1960s on the outskirts of Bologna, known for episodes of crime. Through its history and the lives of its residents, “Il Pilastro” explores the relationship between urban planning and lived experience; it reflects on how a suburb is born and transformed, and on the dynamics of a strong community.

Directed by: Lisette Olsthoorn Documentary – Netherlands – 2025 – 59 min Section: On the Verge A film about work and what we want from it. Three former Uber drivers and three actors reenact and reflect on a failed negotiation with Uber representatives. Outlines of a collective experience become visible, as work puts us into often conflicting positions, forcing us to mistreat each other....See more details

Directed by: Poh Si Teng Documentary – USA, Malaysia, Qatar, Denmark, Palestine – 2026 – 93 min Section: On the Verge When three American doctors – Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian – enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth....See more details