Gopo Awards Gala, the most important event dedicated to Romanian cinema industry reaching its 11th edition will take place later in March 2017, in Bucharest.
This year, based on the 2016's premieres list, made available by the National Filmmaking Centre, 21 feature-length films are eligible for being considered by the jurors and nominated at Gopo 2017 Awards.
Eligible will be deemed the Romanian features produced in Romanian or made as co-productions, but with majority Romanian participation, and which had their big screen premiere in Romania between 1 January – 31 December of last year, and that had at least one week of cinema broadcasting in theatre halls, with access made by ticket.
At the sections dedicated to fiction feature-lengths, the nominations will be made without previous entry being required.
The organisers will require the producers to fill up a technical chart in order to ensure the accuracy of information delivered within the process of juroring and nomination, as well as a copy of the film to be made available to the members' of the nominations section.
As regards the films eligible exclusively within the categories
Best Documentary, Best Short, the registration of the film by producers is mandatory, in order for the films to be taken into consideration by the jury that is to decide the nominations.
The entries for the 11th Edition of Gopo Awards must be made between 23 January – 5 February 2017.
The Romanian documentary or short filmmakers are hereby invited to fill up the technical chart available on the official site www.premiilegopo.ro and to send it electronically, together with the film's visualising link, at the e-mail address: alexandra.boghiu@premiilegopo.ro.
On the list of the feature-length productions to be considered for Gopo 2017 nominations are the following films:
Billion Dolar Hotel (directed by Alecs Năstoiu),
Ilegitim/Illegitimate (directed by
Adrian Sitaru),
Minte-mă frumos în Centrul Vechi/Lie to Me Kindly in the Old Town (directed by
Iura Luncașu),
Usturoi/Garlic (directed by Lucian Alexandrescu),
Orizont/Horizon (directed by
Marian Crișan),
Dincolo de calea ferată/Beyond the Rails (directed by
Cătălin Mitulescu),
03.Bypass (directed by
Nap Toader),
Mercy Street – Strada Speranței (directed by Ștefan Buzea and Radu Nicolae),
Bacalaureat/Graduation (directed by
Cristian Mungiu),
Miracolul din Tekir/Miracle of Tekir (directed by
Ruxandra Zenide),
Tudo (directed by Iura Luncașu),
Dublu/Double (directed by Catrinel Dănăiață),
Afacerea Est/An Eastern Affair (directed by
Igor Cobileanski),
Sieranevada (directed by
Cristi Puiu),
Câini/Dogs (directed by
Bogdan Mirică),
#Selfie 69 (directed by
Cristina Iacob),
Două lozuri/Two Lottery Tickets (directed by
Paul Negoescu),
Discordia/Discord (directed by Ion Indolean),
Inimi cicatrizate (directed by
Radu Jude),
Femeia cu cravată neagră/Woman in a Black Tie (directed by
Adrian Popovici),
Întoarcerea magilor/Return of the Magi (directed by
Ioan Cărmăzan).
Gopo 2016 Awards Gala – is being set up by the Association for the Promotion of Romanian Cinema, with the support of the National Filmmaking Center and Babel Communications.
