Serban Pavlu

Kontinental ’25

• 2026
• 1h 49m
• Comedy, Drama

• 6.7

In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve.

Dracula

• 2025
• 2h 50m
• Comedy, Horror, Musical

• 6

A filmmaker in creative paralysis turns to an AI chatbot to help him make a movie about Dracula. What follows is a sprawling collection of vignettes set in modern-day Transylvania: a vampire hunt, Dracula crashing a labor strike with an army of zombies, a sci-fi story about Vlad the Impaler's return, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella, a love story, and AI-generated kitsch interpolated throughout. A satirical anthology film about myth, cinema, power, and what happens when you let an algorithm tell a legend.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

• 2024
• 2h 43m
• Comedy, Drama

• 7.4

An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.

Uppercase Print

• 2021
• 2h 8m
• Documentary, Drama, History

• 6.6

The story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

• 2019
• 2h 20m
• Comedy, Drama

• 7.2

An artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.

Aferim!

• 2016
• Other
• 1h 48m
• Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Western

• 7.6

Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.