„Banat” to be launched on theatres on April 1st

     Banat (Călătoria) (Banat (The Journey)), director's Adriano Valerio full-length feature debut, is to be premiered on Romanian big screens on April 1st. 

     The feature is a co-production between Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Macedonia, the Romanian counterpart being Ada Solomon through the company Parada Film. The distributor to Romanian theatres is microFILM.
    The feature was internationally premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, followed by its presence at several international festivals: it won the Silver Award at Luxor African and European Film Festival, Egypt, the „Corso Salani” Award for Best Full-Length Feature at the Trieste Film Festival, and also the Best Image Award at the Tirana International Film Festival.
     Banat (Călătoria) (Banat (The Journey)) has as leading actors Edoardo Gabbriellini, Elena Radonicich, and Piera Degli Esposti with Ștefan Velniciuc are playing key roles in the film's story in Italy and Romania, respectively.
     Ivo and Clara are two young people undergoing a crisis, going through hard times that deprive them of the freedom to dream. They are two strangers who share the good and the bad of being '30 years old, as well as the disappointment in the surrounding world. Clara just came out of a long-term relationship and is about to lose her job. Ivo is unemployed, and the frustrations push him towards a radical decision. It is the story of immigrating in the opposite direction as usual: not from Romania to Italy, but from Italy to Romania.
     The shootings were made last year, some of the most important sequences being filmed in Romania, at Voinești (Târgoviște), and on the Black Sea coast.
     Adriano Valerio and Ezio Abbate sign the feature's screenplay, the scenography for the Romanian scenes was made by a crew run by Adrian Cristea, and the editor was Cătălin Cristuțiu.
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