The cultural association dedicated to Romanian documentary film, Docuart, announces the events and projects in view for this first half of year.
The organizational team brings forward in this first half of 2017 two new sections which will materialize on the online platform,
docuart.ro. Film fans and those interested are encouraged to follow the section dedicated to video podcast with an innovative character in the present cultural frame, which will take place monthly also under the formula of a show. The first Docuart podcast will be screened on the 18th of January, starting 09:00h. Besides that, the platform gains a show-interview made by film director Cornel Mihalache “The Sahiots” (the people that worked at the SAHIA studios for documentary film) as it is called, will start on the 23rd of January, and will be held twice a month.
“I’d very much like if the audience will draw something out of our stories, other than words. Hope they will feel the freedom sensation that we, The Sahiots, had in those ugly, grey years, before ‘89. Unfortunately, we are talking like the inhabitants of a small country, Sahiamburg, who after losing their citizenship, watched, with hands tied, the division of their country in random parts, given to all neighbours interested. And its disappearance, in the long run. Sahiots does not mean Mafiots. Rather something between
I Vitelloni and
The Idiots. Sahia Film Studio was never a worshipping shrine of Ceausescu’s national-communism as they seem to still believe in social media…” says director
Cornel Mihalache.
In matter of events, the association will organize new editions of the Docuart Caravan and of the Bucharest Art Film Festival. The caravan will show throughout the country this spring a selection of very popular films that were part of the Docuart Film Festival, 2016.
This is the 4th edition of this project co- financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Funds and the Romanian Film Center.
Bucharest Art Film Festival(artfilmfestival.ro) debuted last year with an edition dedicated to Constantin Brâncuși. The organizers announce that the focus, in 2017, will be placed on painting. The details of the events will be soon announced.
