Reach for the Sky

One of the last movies made during the communist era in Romania. The plot : a drawing contest for kids in Bucharest. More important : this is a movie about childhood, creativity. Strange topics for a country that was about to fall apart. 50 minutes - by Elisabeta Bostan, who made great movies for kids in the 60's and 70's (such as Veronica).

Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.

A kid discovers he has heart disease, his mother was trying to keep that from him. He is depressed that he cannot play with the other children. For his mother there is a dilema: not to take any risks and have his boy lead an isolated life, or go with the risky heart surgery.

Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.

Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad Wolf, along with friends Rassul the Lynx and Petrika the Donkey has made a plan to kidnap the children while their mother is away. And when the eldest child, Matei, decides to disobey his mother and visit the fair himself, things start to go badly for the goat-family.

A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.

A filmmaker wants to create a film about her childhood, and she's looking for a child to star in it. This movie is purely visual, there are no dialogues or story per se.

A young man's quest for a kingdom promising eternal youth and immortality. To reach his goal he must fulfill the three wishes of the Emperor's daughter, retrieve three golden objects, answer three riddles set by the Lord of Time, and overcome an evil witch and escape the Kingdom of Lies ruled by an evil Emperor and the young man's nemesis, the Prince of Lies. In return for good deeds along the way, he is given a magical horn and feather to aid him in his quest and is served by a flying horse, All this before he can finally enter the Kingdom of Youth without Old Age and Life without Death and marry the Emperor's daughter.