Cristian Bota

Acting

Cristian Bota

Acting credits

Tangent poster
NR

He follows her into the dark, room by room, no longer sure if he's looking for her or trying to find out who she really is.

Tangent

2025

The Samca File poster
6.7

15 years after 3 bizarre murders shook a small provincial town, a team of documentary filmmakers revisit the case, confronting theories of a satanic cult, local conspiracies, and the terrifying possibility of a killer still on the loose.

The Samca File

2026

Aid poster
NR

Disguising his smuggling operation as humanitarian aid, Fane ventures into Ukraine to retrieve contraband cigarettes. His mission is complicated when a young refugee, Oleh, sneaks into his van with no way for them to understand each other.

Aid

2024

Appalachia poster
NR

Leo, a 17-year-old biker, and Raisa, the pastor's daughter of a small conservative village from Romania, fall in love at first sight, but communitarianism and religious fanaticism will defeat their relationship.

Appalachia

2022

The Mole poster
NR

Exhausted by the relentless pace of the construction site, Vali, a worker pushed to his limits, walks away from everything and begins digging a hole in the middle of a field. As he descends, reality shifts around him, carrying him through a series of spaces. Each place he passes through reflects his exhaustion, his fear, and his need for release.

The Mole

2026

Catane poster
4.5

In the remote Romanian village of Catane, a community of villagers, long surviving on disability benefits obtained through ambiguous means, faces exposure when a local inquiry descends. What unfolds is not a story of deception, but of unexpected ingenuity as the villagers craft a disarmingly poetic and humorous response to the absurdities of a broken system. In reinventing their way of life, they reveal not only a means of survival—but a radical model of communal resilience in a fractured world.

Catane

2025

Tandari poster
4.5

Two villages that received only half their necessary annual budgets decide to wage it all on a soccer game between themselves. Whoever wins gets it all and fulfill their objectives. So everything becomes fair game in their quest to win.

Tandari

2025

The Father Who Moves Mountains poster
5.8

Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.

The Father Who Moves Mountains

2021

Cloistered Sister poster
6.0

36-year-old Stela has higher education but unable to keep a job. Since she was 12, she's been in love with a Serbian musician from the former Yugoslavia. One of the musician's alleged mistresses promises Stela that she will help her meet her idol.

Cloistered Sister

2025

A Night in Tokoriki poster
7.5

In an improvised night club called "Tokoriki" the whole village celebrates Gianina's 18th birthday. Her boyfriend and Alin will give her a most surprising gift, one that nobody will ever forget.

A Night in Tokoriki

2016

One Step Behind the Seraphim poster
7.7

A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.

One Step Behind the Seraphim

2017

In Perfect Health poster
4.5

A young man trying to solve the puzzle of his father's last moments rattles the life of a quiet town and unburies unwanted truths. His compulsive quest becomes a downward spiral of love, lust and lies.

In Perfect Health

2017

The Cardinal poster
8.7

In the fifties, the leaders of the Greek-Catholic church are arrested and sent to the Sighet prison.The soviet regime has banned any church except the orthodox. Tortured and dehumanized, the only choices are conversion or death. The bishop Iuliu Hossu stands up in front of the torturers and through courage and stature becomes an inspiration for the other priests.

The Cardinal

2019

White Gate poster
7.0

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

White Gate

2014

They Made You into a Weapon and Told You to Find Peace poster
NR

In a society lit by UV lamps, the world of 11-year-old Joshua is shaken when a newcomer disrupts the apparent order, challenging the unspoken rules.

They Made You into a Weapon and Told You to Find Peace

2025

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