The documentary explore the situation of the pregnant women in Romania, a country that has the highest children mortality rate in the EU.
BUCHARESTLESS is a city-vérité conceptual movie shot in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. With an outside-the-box cinematic perspective, a full-encompassing soundtrack, a sequential narrative approach and no dialogues, the film slices through the urban soul and the contemporary spirit of a city formerly known as "Little Paris".
A derelict coal mine, a tramway depot, a small ready-made clothing workshop of a former fashion house, a dairy factory, and a world of women who lived their youth in communism. In capitalism, they work in difficult conditions but they do not complain. Their simple and humane stories form a complicated historical puzzle. Routine, frustration, the fear that they may become expend...
July, 1969. The space race for Moon exploration between the Americans and Soviets gets to its final moments. The first human beeing is going to land shortly on the Moon. But, an incident in Carpathians Mountains and a misterious footage, revealed by prof. Werner, take the Moon exploration stories to some new fantastic posibillities.
An eclectic film, in which suspense and cynicism sometimes meet the grotesque, "Back and forth" reminds, in many ways, the future masterpiece, "Cruise" (1981), directed by Mircea Daneliuc. Placed on the water's edge, where several characters sit with their bellies in the sun and when they talk about what they want and what they don't want, when they keep quiet, "Back and forth"...
During World War II, several young men captured a German soldier on the roof of the building he was defending and where they most likely lived. One of them stays in the same room with the man for a longer time, guarding him under the threat of a rifle. The relationship that is created between them, despite the language barrier, is abruptly stopped by the action of another kid, ...