Igor Babiac

Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, is the last person to witness her sister disappearing before her eyes. Torn apart by the loss, she tries to make sense of a new, terrifying reality. Can she summon the courage to grow up?

A foreigner comes to a Moldovan village looking for a meteorite that fell nearby, as life there flows at its own pace.

Fall of 1944. World War 2 is closing to an end. Nicu, a teenager, embarks on a journey through the wilderness of the Apuseni Mountains, trying to save the horses of his family.

A theatre director intends to make a revolutionary version of Hamlet. It all starts with finding the right actors and putting their lives in danger.

After five years in prison, a father reconnects with his daughter. During a tense meeting, he tries to impress her by attempting to repair their relationship. But she sees through his facade and refuses to be convinced, Coming with only one purpose, to find out who he really is. She confronts him and forces him to answer the questions that have been troubling her. He cannot give her a clear answer, but in the end, the truth comes to light.

In his fight for justice, Andrei resorts to some methods that are not exactly legal. What will be the price he has to pay in order to get what he wants?

While trying to terminate a pregnancy, a young woman is confronted with her first real adult experience.

Andrei, recently retired, decides to go work abroad. He is about to discover that his new workplace won't be an easy one.

Nineteen-year-old Viorel lives with his mother in a remote Moldovan town. He has no great ambitions nor any illusions about life. He and his pal Goos earn a little cash through illegal activities, and Viorel is helping him fulfill his dream of flying. His mother tries to convince him to find a decent job. Eventually, Viorel begins taking control of his life.

Love 2. America tells the story of the final 24 hours of the romance of two lovers, Anton (30) and Beatrice (34). After 24 hours, Anton is going to leave, forever, to a place far away where he will start a new life; Beatrice will return to David (32), her husband. Entwined with memories, dreams and thoughts of the future, their story slowly departs from reality and becomes the universal story of two lovers at the end of their love.

A state of emergency has been declared in the Republic of Moldova due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film director, together with his family, leaves the city and takes refuge in the countryside for the duration of the lockdown. There, faced with the new realities of life, the director conceives a new film about the creative artist’s mission in the modern world, where immorality and a lack of spirituality now prevail. The artist, who has dedicated his entire body of work to his love for humanity, is forced to accept an open confrontation with a new force that threatens civilisation…

Tony Hawks needs to beat the odds and the entire Moldovan national football team...at tennis. Adapted from the best-selling book of the same name, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis is the true story of an Englishman's lesson that real victory is found in the most unexpected places.

16-year-old Andrian lives in Transnistria. At school he has problems with his peers, and at home with his parents. Andrian, who used to sing in the church choir, secretly dreams of ditching everything and going away with a friend to Italy, which he sees as a symbol of freedom from the present hopelessness. But there comes the Holy Week which will forever change his life.

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.

Different portraits, four short stories, four moments in time capturing the wanderings of a few souls, stuck at the crossroads of History.