Directed by: Lucian PINTILIE Year of production: 1979 Country: ROMANIA Genre: drama Length: 121 minutes Banned for ten years and released after the Romanian Revolution, the film is based on Caragiale’s play “Carnival’s Scenes” and explores the universe of peripheral petty bourgeoisie. A world of concreteness and color, stirred by petty problems, [...]
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 1979 Directed by: Lucian PINTILEI Year of production: 1973 Country: YUGOSLAVIA Genre: drama Length: 92 minutes A doctor working in a provincial hospital under Tsarist Russia spends his days aimlessly without any interest even for his work. One day in Ward 6, the mental ward, he meets one [...]
Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 1970 Directed by: Lucian PINTILIE Year of production: 1969 Country: ROMANIA Genre: drama Length: 106 minutes Two friends, having had a glass too much, start a tavern brawl, break some glasses and the waiter’s head. They are obliged by the authorities to reenact their fight in front of [...]
Grand Prix – Rencontres Internationales Film et Jeunnesse, Cannes 1966 Special Jury Prize and Critique’s Award, Mar del Plata Directed by: Lucian PINTILIE Year of production: 1965 Country: ROMANIA Genre: drama Length: 83 minutes Romania, 1940. A boy meets a girl. They fall in love without suspecting anything about their real identities. [...]
Award for Best Actor, Cannes 2018 Directed by: Matteo GARRONE Year of production: 2018 Country: ITALY, FRANCE Genre: drama Length: 102 minutes Dubbed an “urban Western,” Dogman takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. Marcello (Marcello Fonte), a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in [...]
Award for Best Directing, Cannes 2018 Directed by: Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI Year of production: 2018 Country: POLAND, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE Genre: drama Length: 84 minutes Original title: Zimna Wojna Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to [...]
Award for Best Actress, Cannes 2018 Directed by: Sergey DVORTSEVOY Year of production: 2018 Country: RUSSIA, GERMANY, POLAND, KAZAHSTAN Genre: drama Length: 100 minutes Ayka just gave birth. She can't afford to raise a child. She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her own. But there is [...]
Best Screenplay, Cannes 2018 Directed by: Jafar PANAHI Year of production: 2018 Country: IRAN Genre: drama Length: 100 minutes Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help - oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot [...]
Venice IFF, 2018 Directed by: Carlos REYGADAS Country: MEXICO, FRANCE, GERMANY, DENMARK, SWEDEN Year: 2018 Duration: 173 minutes Genre: drama Original Title: Nuestro Tiempo A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. When [...]
Award for Best Director, Cannes 2012 Directed by: Abbas KIAROSTAMI Country: MEXICO, FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS Year: 2012 Duration: 120 minutes Genre: drama Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to [...]
