Directing

Vlad Popa

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Directing

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5 titles

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Jackpot poster
NR

Nelu works at a pawn shop, and Ilinca is employed at a travel agency in the same busy intersection. Their daily routine includes having a quick lunch together while making various life plans.

Jackpot

2024

Happy Deal poster
NR

Phoebe, a kind homeless woman, and Olivia, a queer heartbroken student, find themselves on a late Friday night in a diner having conversations about values, personal experiences and apocalyptic possible ways for the world to end.

Happy Deal

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Alibaba poster
6.0

A grandmother, a mother and her little girl meet at an oriental restaurant to negotiate the girl's transfer to a better school. Because they didn't manage to get the floating act, the grandmother calls her friend from a prestigious school to find out what the transfer possibilities are. After the phone call, the two women have to choose between a disability act, through which the niece will have to simulate a disability, or an ethnicity act which, as a consequence, will lead to the expulsion of a Roma child. Despite the grotesque bargain, the women end their lunch with a Turkish dessert

Alibaba

2023

No artwork available
NR

A young mother raises her son alone, supporting him by working at the village pub. The tender and close relationship between the two largely compensates for the fact that they have difficulty managing money, and Andrei tries at every opportunity to cheer up his mother. In the absence of his father, the boy idealizes any male figure who comes into contact with his mother, be it the pub owner Ilie or the policeman Gică.

Sketches of Still Life

2023

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