The 15th edition of the ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival (August 6-12, 2018, Sfântu Gheorghe, Danube Delta) brings in front of the audience
Romanian premieres of important feature films, a special program dedicated to
the film director Emir Baigazin, who will receive the ANONIMUL Trophy for his contribution to the beauty of the world cinema, debates and also a series of concerts and DJ sets.
On Monday, August 6, the festival opens with the Romanian premiere of the feature film
3 Faces. Its director, Jafar Panahi received the award for Best Screenplay at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows the story of a young girl from northwestern Iran who desperately tries to get in touch with the actress Behnaz Jafari, in order ask her help. The girl wants her to talk to her family, her husband and parents who wouldn`t allow her to study acting in Tehran. When she doesn`t receive any answer from the famous actress, the young woman sends Jafar Panahi a video which apparently is made right before the girl`s killing herself. Behnaz Jafari and Jafar Panahi set out on a journey to find the girl and find out what really happened to her.
Wildlife, featuring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, will have its Romanian premiere as well. The film
represents the actor Paul Dano`s feature directorial debut; he has one Golden Globe nomination for supporting role in
Love&Mercy and one BAFTA nomination for his part in
There Will Be Blood. He is known for the parts he played in
Prisoners or
Little Miss Sunshine. Together with Zoe Kazan he adapted Richiard Ford`s homonymous novel from 1990. It tells the story of Joe, a teenager from a small American town in the `60s, who witnesses the falling apart of his parents` marriage. His mother, Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) feels suffocated in that little town and she thinks that her salvation is represented by a man who would take care of her and his father (Jake Gyllenhaal) drinks a lot and cannot keep a job for too long.
ANONIMUL 15 will be closed by the screening of Spike Lee`s film,
BlacKkKlansman, which received the Grand prize of the Jury in Cannes this year. The film is inspired by the life of Ron Stallworth, the first Afro-American police
officer who successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan. Against all expectations, the officer Stallworth (John David Washington) and his partner Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) infiltrate in the highest ranks of the Klan, in order to stop them take over the city of Colorado.
The 2018 edition of the festival also brings a special program dedicated to the Great Union Centennial, which includes the screening of a few digitized fragments from the films
Vizita oficialităților la Chișinău (1924),
Serbările Unirii (1929),
Jurnal sonor (1938),
Mărășești, 50 de ani (1967),
Alba Iulia 1918-1968 (1968),
România la a 70-a aniversare a Marii Uniri (1988), in order to offer a complete image of the comtext back then and of the present moment, united under the commentary of professor Alin Ciupală, from the Bucharest University.
Another special event is represented by the screening of a HBO documentary which is an intimate, funny and touching portrait of one of the most beloved and creative comedians,
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, directed by Marina Zenovich. The film will be screened on Wednesday, August 8, in the Green Village Resort cinema. The first three episodes of a HBO mini-series Sharp Objects, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, starring Amy Adams, will be screened on Friday, August 10.
The screening evenings will also have DJ sets - Iorga (VRTW Artists), GOJIRA & PLANET H and concerts held by Karpov not Kasparov and Muse Quartet.
Details:
www.festival-anonimul.ro
