Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Role Actor are the three prize records of the feature Moonlight/În lumina lunii (directed by Barry Jenkins). On Friday, 15 September, the director will open the first edition of American Independent Film Festival in Bucharest, in a live Skype talk, at the end of his second feature film screening. The screening is scheduled at Cinematheque Eforie, from 18:15.
“I think it is important for people to recognise themselves in the film, but it is even more important to see people they don't know,” Barry Jenkins said about
Moonlight, a timeless story about human liaisons and self-discovery, winner of over 150 awards. The film is distributed in Romania by
Transilvania Film.
About growing up and the search for a way in life also talk
Novitiate (directed by Maggi Betts) and
Patti Cake$(directed by Geremy Jasper), two of the most acclaimed for fiction debuts at this year's Sundance Festival, to be presented in premiere in Romania at American Independent Film Festival.
Novitiate is the story of the initiation of a young girl from Tennessee, Cathleen, in the love for God, once she is registered to a Catholic school. The action is set over ten years, the first half of the '60s, on the background of the Second Vatican Council, which approached the relationships between the Catholic Church and the modern world, setting up new dogmas on the way the Church was to be run. The film is scheduled on 18 September, from 21:00, at CinemaPRO and, respectively, 19 September, from 18.30, at Cinematheque Eforie.
Novitiate is distributed in Romania by InterCom Film.
Directly from Jersey comes the story full of humour, energy and memorable beats of
Patti Cake$. The feature film follows the journey of a young rap singer, coming from an underprivileged environment, in her search for celebrity. The film was presented at Quinzaine des réalisateurs, in Cannes, and selected to the South by Southwest Festival. Distributed in Romania by Odeon Cineplex, it may be viewed in premiere on Friday, 15 September, from 21:15, at Cinematheque Eforie.
New Jersey is also the setting of the latest fiction film signed by Jim Jarmusch,
Paterson, screened in competition at Cannes, a film about the daily life victories and defeats and the poetry underlying the smallest details. The screenings will be held on Sunday, 17 September, from 16:00, at CinemaPRO and on Monday, 18 September, at 20:45, at Cinematheque Eforie. The film is distributed in Romania by Voodoo Films.
In premiere in Romania at American Independent Film Festival the following films will be also screened
: the thriller
Wind River (directed by Taylor Sheridan – Directing Award - Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2017),
Call Me by Your Name (directed by Luca Guadagnino) and
They, the debut by director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, produced by Jane Campion.
Details at:
Filmedefestival.ro //
American Independent Film Festival
