Founded by Anca and Cristi Puiu in 2004, Mandragora is one of the most important production companies in Romania.
Their first production, "The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu", was internationally acclaimed, and is considered the film which started the New Wave in Romanian cinema. They continued with short and feature films such as: "Megatron" (Marian Crișan, "Palme d’Or" Cannes 2008), "Aurora" (Cristi Puiu, Cannes 2010), "Morgen" (Marian Crișan, Locarno 2010), "Rocker" (Marian Crișan, IFF San Sebastian 2012), "Viktoria" (Maya Vitkova, IFF Sundance 2014), "Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter" (Ana Lungu, IFF Rotterdam 2015). Among their documentary titles are: "Metrobranding", by Ana Vlad and Adi Voicu, selected in 2010 for several DocAlliance film festivals, "Romanians in Ukraine" and "Romanians in Serbia", by the same team of directors, "Songs for a Museum", a documentary by Eliza Zdru and a coproduction for "One Girl" by Rosa Russo (Astra IFF 2018).
Their most recent films are: "Sieranevada" by Cristi Puiu (Festival de Cannes Official Competition 2016) and "One and a Half Prince" by Ana Lungu (Sarajevo Film Festival - Competition Programme 2018), “Arest” by Andrei Cohn, Karlovy Vary IFF 2019, “Cărturan” by Liviu Sandulescu selected in most important festivals in 2019.

Mandragora is currently developing and producing more than ten film projects: features films, including the new project by Cristi Puiu, feature film “Malmkrog”, most recent and just finished shooting is the film by Josef Demian “Night Patrol” and developping the new project by Gabriel Achim, “Night”, a debut by Sarra Tsorakidis “Ink Wash”, new coproduction “Afrika” by Maya Vitkova, documentaries, animations and short films.

The company is committed to a particular understanding of filmmaking and filmmakers with a strong personal vision.
It also launches new talents, encouraging fresh and daring approaches.