Prize of Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2016 Directed by: Juho KUOSMANEN Year: 2016 Country: FINLAND, GERMANY, SWEDEN Genre: drama Length: 92 minutes Summer 1962, Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his [...]
Opening screening, Semaine de la Critique, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Fabio GRASSADONIA & Antonio PIAZZA Year: 2017 Country: ITALY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND Length: 122 minutes Genre: drama, fantasy In a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who’s in love with him, refuses to accept [...]
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2009 Directed by: Ioana URICARU, Hanno HOEFFER, Răzvan MĂRCULESCU Year: 2009 Country: ROMANIA, FRANCE Length: 84 minutes Genre: fiction Several urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized. Ioana URICARU, Hanno HOEFFER, Răzvan MĂRCULESCU - Director Cristian MUNGIU - Script / Dialogue Alexandru STERIAN, Oleg MUTU, Liviu MARGHIDAN - [...]
Official competition, San Sebastian IFF 2017 Directed by: Constantin POPESCU Year: 2016 Country: ROMANIA, FRANCE Genre: drama Duration: 152 minutes Cristina and Tudor Ionescu have founded a happy family with their two children. Maria (5 and a half) and Ilie (7). He works for a phone company and she's an accountant. They're in [...]
Un Certain Regard Prize, 2005 Directed by: Cristi PUIU Year: 2005 Country: ROMANIA Genre: drama Length: 154 minutes Mr. Lazarescu is 63 years old and lives in a block of flats, together with Nusu, Mirandolina and Fritz, his three cats. His wife died eight years ago and Bianca, his daughter, has moved to [...]
Golden Lion, Venice IFF 2017 Directed by: Guillermo DEL TORO Year: 2017 Country: USA Length: 123 minutes Genre: fantasy, romance The Shape of Water is an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in [...]
Short film corner, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Valeriu ANDRIUȚĂ Year: 2017 Country: R. MOLDAVIA Genre: drama Length: 20 minutes Somewhere in the East. A slice of administrative life, in a small-town school, reveals and illuminates the deep problems of a society balanced between its sad past and uncertain future. A Christmas miracle is [...]
Prize for best directing, Saarbrücken 2016 Directed by: Alexandra BÂLTEANU Year: 2016 Country: Germany Length: 75 minutes Genre: drama Lidia grows pigeons and lives a mundane existence with a husband and two children. Denisa wants to buy her freeloading boyfriend a new pair of sneakers. Vanesa, the youngest, dreams of finding the perfect [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Kornél MUNDRUCZÓ Year: 2017 Country: HUNGARY, GERMANY Genre: drama Length: 123 minutes A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out by Dr Stern, [...]
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Santiago MITRE Year: 2017 Country: Argentina, France, Spain Length : 114 minutes Genre: drama At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile, where the region´s geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures a political and family drama that will force [...]
