Ceau, Cinema! 13
FILMS FROM BANAT
The Vinyl Revolution
AG
Screening followed by a discussion with filmmaker Eric Fretz şi the protagonists
Directors: Eric Fretz, Neville Harson
With: Emil Biebel, Mimo Obrodov, Mirela Iacob, Tavi Iepan, Tibi Gajdo, Levi Molnar, Lili Molnar-Popa, Adi Popescu, Romulus Şoimu, Corneliu Vaida, Csaba Lányi
Documentary – US, România — 2026 — 59 min
Language: English, Romanian
Subtitles: Romanian
Synopsis:
The film is about the rock and roll culture in Timisoara, Romania in the 1980s and the way that rock and roll led to the 1989 Revolution that ended 40 years of communism in Romania. It uses archival footage and interviews with Timisoara musicians and ordinary people who wrote, performed and listened to rock music in the 1980s.
Friday, July 17, 2026, 7:00 PM
Timiș Cinema, Timișoara
Short Films from Banat
Q&A with film crews
Saturday, July 18, 2026, 7:00 PM
Studio Cinema, Timișoara
Șona
Director: Mircea Gherase
Documentary – Romania — 2026 — 33 min
Synopsis:
Art, the memory of place, and the landscape of the Olt Valley come together in harmony in the village of Șona, situated along the Via Transilvanica route, between gentle hills and between two worlds: the settled world of stories told on the porch and an increasingly fast-paced modernity. Mircea Gherase’s documentary speaks authentically about the roots of this place, about creativity in the midst of nature, and about the profound relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit.
Sorrowful Way
Director: David Seko
Drama – Romania — 2025 — 15 min
Synopsis:
A brief story of redemption. Haunted by guilt and the memory of his victim, a man returns to the places where, as a soldier in the recently ended war, he was forced to carry out an execution.
Mutilated
Director: Mihai Dragolea
Documentary – Romania — 2025 — 15 min
Synopsis:
Somewhere in Transylvania, in the year 1957 Maria Beluș fought and killed a wolf who attacked solely her kin. Many believe the animal was actually a werewolf who came to curse her family. A high price was paid in order to lift the curse and a child was born out of the attack.
The Day We Did(n’t) Meet
Director: Den Fazekas
Experimental – Romania — 2025 — 5 min
Synopsis:
Two lovers do everything they can to meet at the place they once dreamed of together.
Train Tracks
Director: George Sorinca
Animation – Romania — 2025 — 6 min
Synopsis:
A boy and a girl meet in a small town at night, wandering until each continues on toward their next destination.
Knot
Director: Sorin Valea
Short Film – Romania — 2025 — 14 min
Synopsis:
A feverish journey through the spatial memory of one of the most publicized murder cases in Timișoara. The film explores how seemingly minor compromises inevitably turn into tragedy.
Pathos
Director: Adina Codoban
Drama – Romania — 2026 — 13 min
Synopsis:
Vlad, a young writer blocked creatively and overwhelmed by his own conflicting thoughts, lives in an oppressive isolation where reality and imagination begin to merge. At a speed-dating event, he experiences perceptual distortions where connections trigger dreamlike and hallucinatory episodes.