Bar de Zi (Day Bar) Category: World Cinema This Romanian documentary of intertwined tales discreetly discovers the intimate stories of the simple customers of a 'bar de zi' (day bar) -- the last State-owned bar to survive the communist regime.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: Chechen Syndrome Category: Documentaries Filmmaker Nick Sturdee has spent many years living in Russia and covering the Chechen conflict. He followed some ordinary soldiers returning home with invisible yet debilitating wounds from their time fighting in Chechnya.
12:08 East of Bucharest Category: World Cinema 12:08 East of Bucharest describes the fall of communism through the eyes of a provincial television station. The film was the first made by Corneliu Porumboiu, and won the Camera D’Or (Best First Film) at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Stuff and Dough Category: World Cinema In this film, critically acclaimed director Crisi Puiu takes us in a rattle-trap van with a naïve young man, his pal and the pal's girlfriend en route to Bucharest to deliver a mysterious parcel for a local gangster.
In Focus: Human Cost Category: Documentaries In this episode of In Focus, a globalized economy means global crises: The flow of goods from Asia to Europe has slowed to a trickle; people everywhere are worried about their jobs.
Dincolo Category: World Cinema A Romanian short about an old overweight postal worker who, when nagged by his wife, joins a weekly caravan of local villagers who cross the border to sell their goods for hard currency.
The Paper Will Be Blue Category: World Cinema In this Romanian film, director Radu Muntean plunges us into the confusion of the long night-day-night of Dec. 22, 1989
Testimony Category: World Cinema Diagnosed with a brain tumor and given three years to live, filmmaker Răzvan Georgescu decides to overcome the solemnity of this prognosis to explore the realm between life and death through a series of interviews.
Cold Waves Category: World Cinema This post-modern narrative film tells the history of Radio Free Europe during the 80s in Communist Romania, which served as a secret confidant to its Romanian listeners despite the dictator Ceauşescu's attempts to close it down.
Humanitarian Aid Category: World Cinema Three young men from Western Europe arrive in Romania with humanitarian aid. The inhabitants of a little mountain village have already been waiting for them. See what unfolds in this short film from the Romanian New Wave.
To What Degree? - How Do We Know? Category: Documentaries How do we know the climate is changing? What's causing it? Explore the fundamentals of climate change and glimpse what might lie ahead in a warmer world.
Al Jazeera English - Witness: House of Journalists Category: Documentaries In 2007, 86 journalists were killed for doing their job, mainly in Iraq. Step into the lives of the journalists who take refuge at La Maison des Journalists in Paris, for a chance to start a new and protected life, on Al Jazeera's Witness.
