At microFILM, we are dedicated to bringing bold, thought-provoking, and artistically daring films to audiences worldwide. Now, you can experience our productions from the comfort of your home through multiple streaming platforms. Whether you’re looking for award-winning cinema, compelling documentaries, or unique narratives, our films are available on AntenaPlay, Netflix, MAX, VOYO, Dafilms, and Vimeo on Demand.
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) directed by Radu Jude
Watch on: Netflix, MAX, VOYO, AntenaPlay, Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: Emi, a schoolteacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
Man and Dog (2022) directed by Ștefan Constantinescu
Watch on: AntenaPlay
Synopsis: After having received a mysterious text message, Doru (42) returns home from Sweden in the midst of the Corona outbreak due to the suspicion that his wife is having an affair. His family is a bit concerned about his unexpected visit, suspecting that he might have been fired from the job that they all rely on; at the same time, they are delighted to see him. As the days pass by, it becomes clear that Doru is pursuing an investigation. Alongside his mother’s rowdy dog, Amza, he is shadowing his wife around town, trying to uncover the possibilities of her betrayal.
House of Dolls (2020) directed by Tudor Platon
Watch on: Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: The annual vacation of a bunch of 70-year-old ladies. Far from men and the madness of daily life, Cica, Nana and their friends isolate themselves voluntarily in a villa in the countryside. Together they blend joie de vivre and memories, melancholia and joyfulness, gossip and jokes. All that to keep up the illusion that time has not passed, that they are still the same attractive girls they were 50 years ago.
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife (2023) directed by Alexandru Solomon
Watch on: Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: A dead monk’s gaze is hypnotizing the masses, becomes a very profitable brand and is about to be sanctified by the Romanian church. Following in Arsenie’s footsteps, we embark on a fictionalized pilgrimage, that leads us – with humour and fantasy – through our present confusion and global fears. No afterlife guaranteed.
Renowned producer Ada Solomon, founder and managing director of microFILM, has also brought numerous acclaimed films to life through her production company, Hi Film Productions. Many of these works are now available for streaming on various platforms.
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2017) directed by Ivana Mladenovic
Watch on: AntenaPlay, VOYO
Synopsis: Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music, the ‘pop music’ of the Roma community. Manele music serves as a way out of poverty for some successful musicians, but more often it’s just another opportunity for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching this subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon enough, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty, while Alberto feeds Adi with phrases of love. Little by little, their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn’t understand.
A Month in Thailand (2012) directed by Paul Negoescu
Watch on: MAX, VOYO
Synopsis: Radu and Adina, a young couple of graduates, have just made love. She is profoundly in love with him and cannot wait to move to his place; however, he has reservations. While going shopping in a superstore, he bumps into (or thinks to bump into) his ex-girlfriend Nadia.
Marița (2017) directed by Cristi Iftime
Watch on: MAX
Synopsis: Costi (30) suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, and arrange a surprise reunion with the rest of the family that Sandu has neglected all his life. It’s Costi’s way of running away from his own couple issues for a day.
Trading Germans (2014) directed by Răzvan Georgescu
Watch on: MAX
Synopsis: A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.
The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) directed by Radu Jude
Watch on: VOYO
Synopsis: Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest’s sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism.
Everybody in Our Family (2012) directed by Radu Jude
Watch on: VOYO
Synopsis: Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn’t believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
Scarred Hearts (2016) directed by Radu Jude
Watch on: VOYO, Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients’ attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.
Aferim! (2015) directed by Radu Jude
Watch on: VOYO, Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: Set in early 19th century Wallachia, when a local policeman, Costandin, is hired by Iordache, a boyar (local noble), to find Carfin, a Gypsy slave who had run away from the boyar’s estate after having an affair with his wife, Sultana. Costandin sets out to find the fugitive, beginning a journey full of adventures. Gypsy slavery lasted from the 14th century up until the middle of the 19th century, a situation which is very little known and almost nonexistent in the public debate today, although its impact continues to influence Romania’s social life.
Cold Waves (2007) directed by Alexandru Solomon
Watch on: VOYO, Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: During the 1980s, Radio Free Europe was the secret relief and confidant of its Romanian listeners. The Radio was Ceauşescu’s most important enemy; he even hired Carlos the Jackal to close it down. All the protagonists of this story confront themselves once more in Cold Waves: radio anchors, along with terrorists, listeners as well as party and Securitate officials. If you listen to these voices, you may get a better picture.
Kapitalism. Our Improved Formula (2010) directed by Alexandru Solomon
Watch on: VOYO
Synopsis: An imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country’s businessmen.
Roxanne (2013) directed by Valentin Hotea
Watch on: VOYO
Synopsis: Bucharest, 2009. Twenty years after Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but quite immature guy for his late 30’s finds out from his Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he could be the father of a son he didn’t know about. Starting his own secret investigation, Tavi is caught by a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the life’s of the ones close to him. For the first time in his life, Tavi is forced to take really mature decisions.
A Step Behind the Seraphim (2017) directed by Daniel Sandu
Watch on: VOYO, Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that’s not the way one’s life should be lead.
Principles of Life (2010) directed by Constantin Popescu
Watch on: VOYO
Synopsis: Velicanu considers himself a fulfilled person. He’s got money, a new villa, married a younger woman and has a son from a previous marriage. Before the holidays he has to leave everything in order, but things start to get complicated. The crisis at the end of the day make him wonder whatever he is indeed a happy, fulfilled person…
The Dead Nation (2017) directed by Radu Jude
Watch on: Dafilms, Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: A film constructed using the opposition of what a huge collection of recently discovered glass-plate photographs from the 30’s and 40’s tell us about Romania and what they do not show.
Here… I Mean There (2012) directed by Laura Căpățână-Juller
Watch on: Dafilms
Synopsis: Ani and Sanda are two girls from Maramures who grew up with their grandparents. Their parents are working in Spain, like so many other Romanians. When they left, their common project looked promising: with the money earned in Spain they shall build a house in which the whole family will be happy. After more than 10 years, things haven’t turned out as planned, and the big house is far from being finished. Laura Capatana-Juller accompanied Ani and Sanda for three years, following with a tender and talented eye the struggles of these two girls turned into teenagers while their parents were away. This will be her first documentary feature. A film on a global issue through the microscope of direct cinema.
Tarzan’s Testicles (2017) directed by Alexandru Solomon
Watch on: Dafilms
Synopsis: A film about utopias and a metaphoric drama that threads the similar destinies of monkeys and men.
The Distance Between Me and Me (2018) directed by Mona Nicoară & Dana Bunescu
Watch on: Dafilms, Vimeo on Demand
Synopsis: A heavy drinker and heavy smoker, the avantgardist poet, composer and illustrator Nina Cassian she was both an accomplice and a problem for the Stalinist regime in Romania. Afterwards she was a direct opposer of Ceausescu’s regime.
Whether through microFILM or HiFilm Productions, these works represent a legacy of powerful, distinctive, and socially engaged storytelling. Explore these films and discover the unique voices shaping contemporary cinema. Stay tuned for more updates on where to watch our productions!