Andrei Butica

Hamlet (2025)

A theatre director intends to make a revolutionary version of Hamlet. It all starts with finding the right actors and putting their lives in danger. ...

Holy Week (2024)

The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he ...

Familiar (2023)

Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself. ...

Two Words, Three Lies (2023)

The reenactment of a burglary turned crime. ...

Boss (2023)

A meticulous ambulance driver working in poverty-stricken Bucharest, who takes part in an armed robbery together with three men he barely knows. As the robbery ends in disaster, Bogdan starts a thorough, almost compulsive investigation to dig up the true i ...

31 hours (2021)

Stefan, the only surgeon available, takes on one final patient after working a 31-hour shift. In what should have been a simple procedure the 8-year old boy dies on the table. In this powerful short, the corrupt Romanian health care system is put under clo ...

The Sentries of the Delta (2021)

The adventures of a group of children who spend a few days at a camp in the Danube delta in summer. The story combines an introduction to kayaking and survival in the wilderness with garbage collection activities in a nature reserve... until the children c ...

Journey Around the Home in 60 Days (2020)

A collection of 6 films made during the lockdown period in Romania. ...

In the Shadow of Men (2018)

Four people meet in a bar. Two of them know exactly why they are there. The third has a pretty good idea. The fourth is in for a bit of a shock... ...

Parabellum (2018)

Seven months after their divorce, Ducu pays Maria one last visit... ...

Ana, My Love (2017)

Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses. ...

Dogs (2016)

Roman returns to the land near the Ukrainian border he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of ...

Seven Months Later (2016)

One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning. ...

Ramona (2015)

On a seemingly normal evening, a young girl has the misfortune of encountering the wrong people. For her, this turns into a nightmare in which she is not even sure if she will survive the night... ...

Back Home (2015)

Robert is a young writer passing through a difficult time in his life. He decides to return home into his native village for the first time since his mother passed away three years ago. In more than 10 years, he paid only few visits to his parents and this ...

The Network (2015)

The documentary follows and underground benevolent network of people who are buying chemotherapy drugs abroad and transporting them to Romanian patients, since in Romania chemotherapy drugs are not available. ...

În care eroina se ascunde și apoi are parte de o întâlnire neașteptată (2015)

One stressful morning, like every other morning, Cristina suddenly stops in the doorway. She is unable to take the step that would lead her out of the house. ...

Kowalski (2014)

Three men go into a pub. The first man has too many questions. The second man has the perfect plan. The third man has no chance. ...

Bad Penny (2013)

One night, just before the holidays, in an empty park, two small-time thugs hold up a strange looking man. Where's the Christmas spirit? ...

Child's Pose (2013)

Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept tha ...

A Month in Thailand (2012)

In Bucharest on a winter's morning, a couple make love. Adina wants to move in with her boyfriend Radu as soon as possible. He, on the other hand, is slightly more reluctant but appears to simply tolerate her plans. Today is New Year's Eve and Radu and Adi ...

Everybody in Our Family (2012)

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 ...

A Film for Friends (2011)

A disillusioned man is filming his farewell letter before committing suicide. ...

Renovation (2009)

A trilogy of stories: Besides her daily work, mother Doina tries to manage the renovation of the family's apartment. Her son Alex can hardly find any time for both the renovation and his girlfriend as the deadline for his Master's thesis comes close. His g ...

In The Morning (2007)

Two characters, one taxi, a crisis and a compromise. ...

Alexandra (2006)

Tavi, a forty-year-old divorced father, comes to his ex-wife's home to repair his four-year-old daughter's bike. He realizes with amazement that Alexandra does not call him "Daddy" any more. He asks an explanation from his ex-wife... ...

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)

After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man's hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health sta ...

Corps et âmes (2003)

Two Words, Three Lies (2023)

The reenactment of a burglary turned crime. ...