Tudor Pojoni

The Campaign

Viorel, a quiet, upright tractor driver from a small town in west Romania meets Mocanu, a high profile politician campaigning for a seat in the European Parliament. Mocanu’s car has broken down nearby and Viorel and his wife welcome the politician into their humble home. Under investigation for corruption, Mocanu sees an opportunity and decides to stay with this modest family during the rest of the campaign, winning people’s hearts by posing as a common man next to his “old friend”, the honest, hard-working farmer. In return, Viorel will get a new tractor.

Offseason

A man and a woman wake up to find themselves at an abandoned beach. They try to remember what brought them to this place and how they are related.

Weekend

The summer is ending and the long weekend has just begun.

Kids Rock

Four boys between 11 and 13 years old are members of the rock band Blană Bombă. The magnificent four are observed both on the path of artistic transformations, and on the way from childhood to adolescence.

Rocker

The story of Victor, a 45-year-old rocker, whose love for his son Florin go beyond what is socially and morally acceptable. The father's everyday life is orbiting around his son, a drug addict.

Megatron

It's Maxim's birthday. He's 8 years old. He lives together only with his mother in a village not so close to the big city. For his birthday, his mother will take him to Bucharest, to McDonald's. There, Maxim hopes to meet his father.

The Road Home

One car, two men, and a lot of alcohol: what begins as a nighttime ride soon turns into a crazy odyssey through the Transylvanian hinterland. With a healthy dose of dry humor, Marian Fărcuț tells the story of an encounter between a Romanian and a Hungarian who don't speak the same language but still find common ground.

Morgen

NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, NELU will “fish” something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. NELU takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN…