Moldova Movies

Different portraits, four short stories, four moments in time capturing the wanderings of a few souls, stuck at the crossroads of History.

LENIN’S PAWN is a hybrid documentary with dark humor following actor Sergiu Voloc, a modern-day Don Quixote whose lonely fight against Lenin...

Sometimes, eight years of silence are not enough to bury the truth. Each of us has an ‘abyss’ – a place where we have hidden our...

Maria is the prototype of the woman from Moldova: she lived her life next to a depraved, petty husband, who abused her physically and...

A look into the underground world of trafficking human body parts.

A young couple takes a cab ride to the countryside, however things start to become tense.

In a poor village near the Transnistrian border, after the war of 1992, there is a mined field, still active. Zinca and Victor, two Moldavian...

This story is about an astronaut who, as a child, dreamed of flying and being free. And now he seems to be flying in the sky, but he is actually...

The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he...

In a village hit by drought, Dumitru starts a quest for water. Ioana, the girl who accompanies him in this pursuit, is a silent witness of the...

A story of a grey man who is always sighing. Living in a smog-covered grey city, he keeps on sighing until he dries out and becomes nothing but skin...

A talented pianist and his 8-year-old son struggle to find a place to sell vegetables at the biggest market in Moldova's 2000'. When the father seems...

Directed by Moldovan director Eugen Damaschin, the documentary Moldova 89-91 presents the thread of events through which the neighboring state gained...

An investigator travels to a remote Moldavian village to examine a supposed hunting accident. As he talks to locals and reviews the events,...