Program Cinema Muzeul Țăranului - Studioul Horia Bernea

Directed by: Marc Isaacs Documentary – United Kingdom – 2025 – 70 min Section: On the Verge Researchers at the Synthetic Sincerity Lab are trying to create authentic AI characters, using protagonists from Marc Isaacs’ documentaries. In turn, they allow him to film the process....See more details

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: Srđan Kovačević Documentary – Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia – 2025 – 88 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues In the heart of Ljubljana, the Workers' Advocacy Office stands as a beacon of hope for the most vulnerable: working men and women, the unemployed, the disabled, pensioners, and migrants....See more details

Directed by: Mstyslav Chernov  Documentary – Ukraine – 2025 – 108 min Section: On the Verge “2000 Meters to Andriivka” documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a deeply personal vantage point. Amid a failing 2023 counteroffensive, Mstyslav Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian platoon as it traverses a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka....See more details

I WANT MY INNER DOG TO WEAR PEARLS Directed by: Valeriu Andrișcă Documentary – Belgium – 2025 – 38 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues Siblings Victor (he/they) and Alexandra (she/they) return to Romania for a wedding. Victor documents their family’s history of rug weaving and discovers that even tapestry can become a debate about gender, tradition, and resistance....See more details

Directed by: Mona Nicoară, Miruna Coca-Cozma Documentary – USA, Switzerland – 2011 – 94 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues “Our School” follows Alin, Beni and Dana, three Roma children in a Transylvanian village who are among the first participants in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools....See more details

Directed by: Lucrecia Martel Documentary – Argentina, USA, Mexico, France, Denmark, Netherlands – 2025 – 122 min Section: Past Continuous In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuschagasta community in Tucumán, Argentina, was shot and killed defending his people from forced eviction, with two others wounded....See more details

MY FAMILY IS A CIRCUS Directed by: Nina Landau  Documentary – Belgium – 2020 – 16 min Section: Youth Days Romy has to say goodbye to her classmates because she's going to France. Not on holiday, but to work there: her family's touring circus will spend the entire summer performing in an amusement park....See more details

Directed by: Martin Trabalík Documentary – Czech Republic – 2025 – 86 min Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues Recently widowed, Mr. Jochec must take on caring for his two teenage children: Vanesa and Pete, who lives with a severe autism spectrum disorder....See more details

Directed by: Garry Keane Documentary – Ireland, United Kingdom – 2025 – 96 min Section: Youth Days Three Deaf couples share their remarkable love stories through Irish Sign Language: a decades-long forbidden romance across a religious divide, an LGBTQIA+ couple navigating parenthood with Deaf and hearing daughters, and a Deaf boxer and his hearing partner facing a life-altering choice....See more details