Best Romanian animation movies

Romania is on the last place in Europe in terms of highway kilometers, but on the first place in the number of deaths in road accidents. Entrepreneur Stefan Mandachi builds 1 meter of highway on his private property.

An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own.

Robinson is a doctor and unlike Robinson Crusoe, his solitude is voluntary but his island in the Mediterranean Sea is invaded by migrants, NGOs, guards. Friday is a castaway, the only one from his boat to have survived when sailing from Africa to Italy. During his strolls on the island, Robinson confronts his own solitude by keeping a diary - that works like augmented reality - filled with extraordinary beings and events, which both fill and trouble his daily life.

An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to start a hunger strike from the day he was arrested, demanding a meeting with somebody from the Romanian Consulate.

Living a constant adolescent drama with the monster in her head, a young girl embarks on a spiritual journey in order to make peace with herself and with the ones around her.

Secluded for ages inside his tower, a Knight is awoken from his slumber by a mysterious whisper.

Entering an antique shop, a young man finds an intriguing drawing which is hiding a secret, 70-year-old love letter on the back. After finding out that the 105-year-old author is still alive, and determined to find out if the story is real, the man goes on an unusual journey

In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.

1973 Animation by Sabin Balasa

This 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years.

An aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water a new world reveals. The phone, on a chair, connects her with her son and keeps her linked to the world.

A father recounts to his daughter the extraordinary journey of four young explorers throughout the world. Fascinated by this story, the little girl will discover that the adventure told to her by her father is at border between reality and fiction.

A naked man keeps himself busy throughout an infinite space.

A woman gives shape to octopuses out of her own flesh. When she runs out of matter, she has to face what she has created.

1968 Animation by Sabina Balasa

1969 Animation by Sabin Balasa

Short animated painting.

What starts out as a good night's sleep throws us into a storm of dreams and nightmares that begs for our attention and refuses to tell us when it's going to be over, making us the protagonist in the mind's hidden playground, the subconscious.

The continuation of adventures of Maria and Mirabella, in which the two girls get lost in a fabulous world inside a television set.

What does "later" mean to you or your grandparent? Sometimes, the gap between intentions and reality is wide.

A series of short sketches with Gopo's Little Man about sports.

A few years before Kubrick in "2001", although in a more farcical way, Ion Popescu-Gopo shows the evolution of a strange creature named man from the time he started to rub flint stones to nowadays when he has managed to split the atoms.

Three mice regularly clash with a group of cats. One day, Eye Patch the cat hurls a book at them. The mice see it is Alexandre Dumas' "Three Musketeers" and after reading it decide to imitate the exploits and adventures of the famous trio.

A comic history of telecommunications throughout the world.

Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. A intergalactic research ship descends onto an unknown planet where the animals are reminiscent of Earth's distant past when it was populated by dinosaurs.

1966 Animation by Sabin Balasa

Opened by a self portrait, the film offers images of blind violence against women and children and a god killing an ant and with this crime, creating extinction of human race, it shows the images of cultural heroes, from Shakespeare to Einstein, to Mona Lisa and Don Quijote.

After their home is destroyed, Boxhead & Roundhead must head to the big city to battle red tape, rent, rats and the rat race to get it back. Art and industry, friendship and foul play are all in the mix in this, the first feature length Boxhead & Roundhead stressful adventure.

Short film from the Delta Space Mission film series. A giant tornado pulls the Delta spaceship into the endless ocean of a strange planet.

Short animation

Puiul is a short animated art Romanian movie without dialogue.

A little bear cub grew up very lazy. Spring came, but the little bear did not want to wake up and went to chase after the cold Winter's sleigh. Soon Bear got to the palace of Santa Claus, where he had many funny adventures. Here the little boy understood a lot, learned a lot. Now Mishka will no longer be a layabout.

1971 Animation by Sabin Balasa

"A planet of beings learning to crawl, walk and eventually fly." (YouTube user Kevinedge)

As Pin-Pin the penguin travels around the world, he explains life and nature in different regions.

1968 Animation by Sabin Balasa

Two men and a boat

A short animated film about the adventures of an offended hedgehog.

Experimental animation film, with a visual focus on geometrical shapes and straight lines

She drives with him to buy booze for her birthday party. Also, he wants to buy her a present on their way, but he has no idea what that could be.

A symbolic story of life after death where the main character, The One, must start his journey in the Purgatory. With the help of a guide, The One overcomes many obstacles that stand in his way – the forest, the birds, the snow and even the road itself put up resistance against his journey of self-discovery and could trap him in Purgatory for all eternity.

An animated fairy tale movie about the funny adventures of a bear cub who went to congratulate his uncle and present him with a cake.

A puppet movie about a funny story that happened in the apartment of a chatty landlady, who was so engrossed in a phone conversation that she forgot that her little, naughty son was left in the next room.

At home in her apartment, a young woman is caught up in events and thoughts put unwillingly into motion.