CINE.opt

Winter Light
Ingmar Bergman

Sunday
22 Feb

19:30

A cold church.
A silent God.
A tired faith.

Winter outside.
Winter within.

A film about doubt.
About solitude.
About what remains when belief fades.

A stark light
in the middle of winter.

🎬 screening & talks at 19:30
📍 Cotroceni
🕡 doors open at 18:30 to meet& greet 🍷

Bookings in DM 💌

Beautiful people gathering in our living room to experience & talk about great cinema. Such a blessing 🥰

Rewind to this season's cinephile gatherings and feeling so grateful for being able to host them and to see this lovely community growing. Thanks so much to everyone who was part of this experience this year!

Keeping in my heart so many wonderful films, drinks & late night talks that we shared and I'm looking forward for the next ones 🥂

Keep enjoying the Loving Spirit of Christmas and let's have a Great New Year!✨

🎬 Romanian Short Films & Talks this Friday 12.12 🫶🏻

Grateful to be able to function, from time to time, as a platform where local filmmakers can screen their work — especially since short films are often hidden gems, with little space in cinemas outside film festivals.

Join us for a unique encounter with the work of experienced and also emerging film-makers 🍷

🎞️ Ceasuri, sentimente și sfârșitul lumii (2025), by Vlad-Niculaie Faranga
As humanity faces the greatest and most meaningful crisis in its history, two vicious and dedicated young capitalists have a different concern: how to save their watch company.

🤼‍♂️ The Chainman (2025), by Stan & Buzea
“The Chainman” mini-documentary tells, in portrait-like tones, the story of Iorgu Aggressor, one of the most popular wrestlers on the Romanian wrestling scene. Blending Commedia dell’arte influences with a black-metal aesthetic, Iorgu’s Conan-the-Barbarian-like exoticism is as unmistakable as a tank in a cycling race.

🎞️ Nelu (2023), by Oana Bălțatu
The hallways of an apartment block become a labyrinth for Nelu, a middle-aged man who can no longer enter his own home after a heated argument with his wife.

🌫️ Fog (2017), by Adrian Voicu
A middle-aged couple wants to adopt a child. To obtain an evaluation, they must first receive a home visit from a social worker from the adoption center.

🚆 Ultimul drum spre mare (2019), by Adrian Voicu
Six passengers are traveling to the seaside in a train compartment. After a while, a suspicion causes some of them to lose their composure, and the rest of the trip goes terribly wrong.

🍷 Friday, 12.12, 20:00
📩 Bookings via DM 🥂

Did you know that in the very same year, Viridiana was banned in Spain, condemned by the Vatican, and awarded the Palme d’Or?

❤️‍🔥Few films have shaken both governments and audiences the way Viridiana did — a daring, razor-sharp work in which Buñuel’s subversive genius is on full display.

A film that didn’t just provoke scandal — it rewrote the rules of cinematic dissent, expanding what cinema could question, expose, and dare to say.

Set in a decaying Spanish estate, the story follows a young novice whose attempt to live out compassion and purity is slowly undone by the world around her. What begins as a quiet tale of faith unravels into a darkly satirical exploration of desire, hypocrisy, power, and the limits of goodness.

With Buñuel’s unmistakable blend of surrealism, irony, and moral provocation, Viridiana remains as bold, unsettling, and essential today as it was in 1961.

Screening this Wednesday, 10 dec., in our lovely welcoming space in Cotroceni ✨

🍷 Door opens at 18:00 for drinks, greetings and connection
🎬 Screening starts around 19:00, followed by the talk (everyone is encouraged to freely express what the film evoked for them)

🪽Limited seats — reserve your spot via DM.