Romania

Bibliotheque Pascal is not a library – it’s a licentious brothel located in Liverpool, where the patrons can project and enter each other’s dreams and, dressed as literary characters, can enact their bookish sexual fantasies. Having left her daughter with her fortune-telling aunt, young and beautiful Mona is tricked into embarking on a trek from Transylvania to Germany for life-saving surgery. Instead, she finds herself on a harrowing journey into the shadowy world of sexual slavery.

Winner of the Jury Grand Prix at the 2010 Berlinale Film Festival. 

The Romanian New Wave continues to show its strength in this first feature from director Florin Serban.  Silviu has spent the last four years in a juvenile penitentiary, and mere weeks before his release he learns his estranged mother is departing for Italy with his brother.

A documentary looking at the formation and eventual dissolution of The Shukar Collective, a collaboration between three Gypsy folk musicians and a posse of urban music producers and DJs.

Director Alexandru Maftei creates a new path for Romanian Cinema in Hello, How Are You?; one that embraces mass appeal through humor and a deep attention to storytelling.