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SFR 2017 Events (10-14 May 2017)


     The 8th Edition of the Romanian Film Festival (10 – 14 May 2017, Iași) brings to Iași-based audience, apart from Romanian films' screenings and a retrospectivCristian Mungiu, several special events: exhibitions, book releases and concerts.
     A Festival's novelty is the children section, that is to present a retrospective Elisabeta Bostan. The programme's selection includes the following features: Zâmbet de soare / Sunny SmileCampioana / The ChampionVeronica se întoarce / Veronica ReturnsTinereţe fără bătrâneţe / Eternal Youth and Saltimbancii / Circus Actors. The screenings will be followed by talks with Elisabeta Bostan, and at the end of the screening of The Champion, Izabela Moldovan Bostan will be also present, the actress playing the leading role in the film.
     On Wednesday, 10 May, at 16.00, at MERU, the opening of the exhibition “Divina tragedie” / Divine Tragedy will take place, attended by Ion Bârlădeanu, an artist known from the documentary by Alexander NanauLumea văzută de Ion B / The World Seen by Ion B.
     AGERPRES photography archive will be available for viewing over the entire duration of the festival, Alexandru Giboi (director AGERPRES) being present at the opening on 10 May, at 18.00, in the Foyer of the Athenaeum in Iași. The selection includes pictures of Romanian actors and directors taken from the shootings of such cinema productions as Steaua fără nume / The Nameless Star (directed by Henri Colpi and Jasmine Chasney), Mihai Viteazul (directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu) and Pintea (directed by Mircea Moldovan)
     The film Un bulgăre de humă / A Clod of Clay (directed by Nicolae Mărgineanu) will have a special screening on the occasion of the 80-year birthday of actor Dorel Vișan, on Friday, 12 May, at 20.00, at Bojdeuca lui Ion Creangă (Ion Creangă's Cottage) of Țicău. Actors Dorel Vișan and Dionisie Vitcu will be in attendance, together with the film's director and with screenwriter Mircea Radu Iacoban. At the Mitropolitan Museum, on Sunday, 14 May, from 19.00, Dorel Vișan will recite poems from his volume “Psalms”, accompanied by Ionuț Bogdan Ștefănescu, first-flute player of the “George Enescu” Philharmonic of Bucharest.
     The book “Reconstructions with Ileana Popovici” (Adenium, Iași, 2017) is to be launched on Saturday, 13 May, at 15.30, in the Foyer of the Athenaeum in Iași, with actress and volume's author, Radmila Popovici, attending. The film Pentru patrie / For the Mother Country will be screened to carry on the event, at 13.00, in the Big Performance Hall „Radu Beligan” of the Athenaeum.
     Former political convict during 1959 – 1964, Radu Bercea has made, starting in 2002, a cycle of painting and graphics works illustrating moments spent in the detention camp. The graphics exhibition “Radu Bercea – Memory of Romanian Gulag Retina” is available for viewing during the Festival at the FIX Theatre.
     Details at: www.festivalsfr.ro
(Translated by Stela Moise)
(02.05.2017)

Tags: dorel visan, festival serile filmului romanesc 2017, ileana popovici, ion barladeanu, radu bercea

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