Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest 2016, a collector`s edition

    The event created and started by Cristian Mungiu has a spectacular evolution every year. The tickets are sold-out in advance and the cinemas are packed full. This year, the program ofLes Films de Cannes à Bucarest can be seen in Iași, Cluj and Timișoara as well.
     The German-Romanian co-production, Toni Erdmann, directed by Maren Ade, was screened during the opening gala. The film received the FIPRESCI award for the best film in Cannes (2016) and it is nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film. The director Maren Ade and the co-producer Ada Solomon were present at the screening.
The special guests of the festival were the filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Alain Guiraudie, who came to meet the Romanian audience and also to hold the masterclass for the students of the ”IL Caragiale” University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest.
     ”The Abbas Kiarostami Tribute” brought the films of the Iranian director for the first time in Romania, many of them having been awarded or presented in Cannes. The director Mania Akbari was invited to speak about the filmmaker, with whom she had worked, as an actress for the film Ten. 
     This year, 20 feature films out of the 21 that were included in the official selection of the International Film Festivalwere shown in Bucharest, as well as very new Romanian films, or some previews of others; they were included in a special section: Graduation, by Cristian Mungiu – Best Director in Cannes, Dogs, by Bogdan Mirică – the FIPRESCI award, in the "Un Certain Regard" section in Cannes, Sieranevada, by Cristi Puiu, Eastern Business, by Igor Cobileanski, Fixeur, by Adrian Sitaru, Scarred Hearts, by Radu Jude, Anișoara, directed by Ana Felicia Scutelnicu, 6,9 on the Richter Scale, by Nae Caranfil, Two Lottery Tickets, by Paul Negoescu and the documentary A Mere Breath, made by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan.
 
 

  
  Cinematography: Nicolae Cara