The Romanian cinema month set up by the Romanian Cultural Institute of London, in partnership with British Film Institute, between 2 - 30 June, 2016, under the title
“Revolution in Realism”, enters today its fourth week.
The project – the largest Romanian film panorama ever proposed to UK film lovers, presents a selection of over 20 award-winning productions of the latest years, to which two premieres in Great Britain are to be added over the next period.
The first of the said premieres, scheduled for Monday, 20 June, with the director in attendance, will be through the screening of the feature
Autoportretul unei fete cuminți/Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter, by
Ana Lungu (released in 2015 at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, winner of the Grand Prize at the “Crossing Europe” Festival in Austria, and of the Best Director Award at Bucharest IFF). This is a debut feature made in the minimalist realism style launched by Cristi Puiu, and it was well received by reviewers, the story focusing on an Engineering Ph.D. student who tries to win her independence, maintaining a difficult balance between the expectations of the married man she is in a relationship with, and those of her family and close friends.
On 30 June, screening of the latest feature signed by
Marian Crișan,
Orizont/Horizon will be held (released last year at the Tallin Black Nights Festival), with composer
Cristian Lolea attending.
At the centre of the “Revolution in Realism” programme stands a
retrospective of Cristi Puiu's films, the director whose cinematic searches led to the apparition of the so-called New Romanian Cinema, but also screenings of
a series of defining features.
Details at:
film.icr-london.co.uk //
www.facebook.com/ICRLondon
