Oscar-Winner Features at NexT 2016

     The five films nominated this year at the Oscar for the Best Fiction Short are to be viewed again at the NexT International Film Festival (7-11 April), within Oscars Night program. The screening is to be held on Friday, April 8th, starting at 20:30, at CinemaPro Theatre in Bucharest.

     This year's winner was Stutterer, directed by Benjamin Cleary, a film telling the story of a speech-impaired boy, who found his voice through an online relationship. The Oscars Night Program also offers four other different stories. Shok drama depicts the challenges two teenager friends are faced with during the Kosovo war. The comedy Ave Maria places in opposing stands five catholic nuns and an Israeli family at a time near Sabbath. The drama Day One is the story of an Afghani-American woman faced with divorce, who decides to become an interpreter for the American troupes in Afghanistan. And Everything Will Be OK, directed by German Patrick Vollrath, is a drama with thriller touches about a divorced father and his adolescent daughter. Vollrath has another movie to be screened at la NexT this year, entered in the official competition: The Jacket, about a boy, a girl and a jacket.
     Another program returning this year to NexT Film Festival is Short Matters! a collection of short features nominated at the European Film Academy Awards in 2015. It includes15 films from all over Europe, of different genres. Among them is an award-winner - Picnic, a Croatian film about a kid stuck in traffic in the way to the penitentiary where his father is kept. The features within the Short Matters! program will be screened at the screening hall of the Romanian Cultural Institute, also on April 8th, starting at 18:00 hours. Admission is free of charge.
     For further details, go to:  www.nextfilmfestival.ro