In case you were wondering what to do or watch this weekend, I am happy so say there are quite a few Romanian films you could catch these days. Especially if you live in Cluj or Bucharest.

The lovely cinema Victoria in Cluj shows no less than fourteen (!!) Romanian films this and next week. The cinema presents 13 Romanian directors with films from 2013 (starting with today and until May 1st) and if I were to recommend a few, it would be the gentle father-son drama Câinele Japonez/The Japanese Dog, the refreshingly funny relationship comedy Love Building (trailer below), the impressive formal exercise on art, life, and filmmaking Când se lasă seara peste București sau metabolism/When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism and, of course, the fantastically tense and catching family drama Poziția copilului/Child's Pose.

But the other titles are all worth your time, either because they tackle difficult historical topics such as the discrimination of Jews (Evrei de vânzare) or because they dare to experiment with genre conventions, like the gothic horror story Domnișoara Cristina/Miss Cristina.

Bucharest ist more modest in its offer and the two films you can watch here are also shown in Cluj. Al doilea joc/The Second Game, Corneliu Porumboiu's latest film, is a wonderfully playful and original exercise: father and son watch an old footbal game on VHS and their discussion about the match reveals surprisingly much about the communist era and its manipulative means.

Mai aproape de lună/Closer to the Moon is epic, escapist entertainment, a lovingly told tale of a true episode in the 1950s when a group of Jewish friends decided to rob the National Bank. Nae Caranfil's story is more interested in romance and ideals than in the hard facts of the social and political context of the heist but it's nevertheless very engaging.

A proper Romanian spring, hope to see you at the cinema!

By Ioana Moldovan, columnist, ioana.moldovan@romania-insider.com