Prize for exceptional artistique contribution, Shanghai IFF 2017 Directed by: Cătălin SAIZESCU Year: 2017 Country: ROMANIA Genre: drama, comedy Inspired by the tragic event on August 2010, when several premature newborn babies died in the fire that took place in the Intensive Therapy Ward of Giulesti Maternity in Bucharest. The film tells the [...]
Prize for directing, Best Actor (Șerban Pavlu), Sarajevo IFF 2017 Directed by: Emanuel PÂRVU Year: 2017 Country: ROMANIA Genre: drama Duration: 82 minutes The feature tells the story of Doru, a lumberjack, widower for a week. Doru knows he will have to take Meda - the child they had in foster care for [...]
Directed by: Mihaela POPESCU Year: 2017 Country: Romania Length: 90 minutes Genre: drama A surrealist drama about a 40-year-old criminal court judge with a dying father, an unhappy marriage and petty cases to solve, shown as a struggle between ANDI, the animal within, and K, his rational side. Mihaela POPESCU - Director [...]
Festival international du film de Locarno 2017 Directed by: Octav CHELARU Year: 2017 Country: Romania Length: 21 minutes Genre: drama Un bărbat caută pe cineva care are nevoie de bani pentru o misiune mai specială. În periferia Teheran-ului, în căutările sale, întâlnește un soldat, un student la teologie și un paznic de muzeu [...]
Palme d’Or, Cannes 2007 Directed by: Cristian MUNGIU Year: 2007 Country: ROMANIA, BELGIUM Length: 113 minutes Genre: drama Romania, during the final days of Communism. Otilia and Gabita are students; they share a room in a hall of residence in Bucharest. Gabita is pregnant. The girls arrange to meet a certain Mr. Bebe [...]
Official Competition - San Sebastian IFF, Toronto IFF 2017 Directed by: Ivana MLADENOVICI Year: 2017 Country: ROMANIA, SERBIA, BELGIUM Length: 119 minutes Genre: drama Adi, a young anthropologist recently left by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari (the poorest neighborhood in Bucharest) to write a study on manele music (the pop music of the [...]
FEDEORA Prize, East of the West, Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 Directed by: Cristi IFTIME Year: 2017 Country: ROMANIA Genre: drama Duration: 100 minutes Getting tired with his relationship problems, Costi is suddenly in the mood for his father’s storytelling, so he decides to pay him a visit and bring him as a [...]
In Competition, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Jacques DOILLON Year: 2017 Country : FRANCE Length : 119 minutes Genre: drama Paris 1880, Auguste Rodin aged 40, finally receives his first State commission: he creates The Gates of Hell, composed of figurines. Some of these will become his most famous works, such as The Kiss [...]
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2017 Directed by: Valeska GRISEBACH Year: 2017 Country: GERMANY Length: 120 minutes Genre: drama A group of German workers sets off to a construction site in the border region between Bulgaria and Greece. This foreign land and its breath-taking landscape awaken the men’s sense of adventure. The foreign land [...]
Horizons Award for Best Film, Venice IFF 2014 Best International Film Award, Santa Barbara IFF Directed by: Robin CAMPILLO Year: 2013 Country: FRANCE Length: 128 minutes Genre: drama Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they [...]
