Alexandru Solomon

The sheer range of Romanian films created as a result of this spring's lockdown has shown us how we can cope with the crisis. A lyrical montage of old footage set within the context of isolation alongside a video art…

Anton is a superstar of his own kind. This baboon is the main attraction for the tourists visiting the Primate Institute in Sukhum, Abkhazia.

A film about utopias & a metaphoric drama that threads the similar destinies of monkeys & men.

How was it possible to trade an entire ethnic group, appr. 245.000 Germans, out of Communist Romania between 1968 and 1989? What were the reasons for the vanishing of a 850 years cultural tradition from Romania within…

Ani and Sanda are two girls from Maramuresh who grew up with their grandparents. Their parents are working in Spain, like so many other Romanians. When they left, their common project looked promising: with the money…

Alexandru Solomon invites Ceausescu to revisit Romania, 20 years after he has been executed. The dictator haunts present-day capitalist society, emerged in the Wild East and often deeply rooted in its communist past.…

This is a film about what the car traffic turns us into. For 5 months the director in the passenger seat accompanies five ordinary people (A half paralyzed man who not only drives a car, but he also helps other people…

This is a love and hate story built around something no one can see or touch: radio waves. During the 80's, Radio Free Europe was the secret relief and confidant of its Romanian listeners. The Radio was Ceausescu's most…

Clara's existence is reconstructed by Jonas - a young museum archivist, who discovers a photography and documents' stock, long forgotten in the storage.At first, Jonas doesn't know anything about Clara, just her birth…

In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the Romanian secret police organized a heist of the National Bank. After they were arrested, the state forced them to play themselves in a film…