Mărculești (Romanian pronunciation: [mərkuˈleʃtʲ]) is a city in Florești District, in northern Moldova, with a population of 2,081 at the 2004 census.

The city was once the site of a Jewish agricultural and mercantile colony until its destruction in the Holocaust.

[3] Filmmaker Matthew Mishory's 2015 documentary Absent was filmed in Mărculești, the site of a horrible atrocity in 1941 in which all of the village's Jews were massacred by the Romanian army.

[4] The film introduces the current residents of Mărculești, some of who seem to be unaware (or unwilling to discuss) what happened.

In an interview with Tablet, Mishory discussed the complex emotions of filming there: "The history of Mărculești and the Holocaust pose impossible intellectual and theological questions.