Sieranaveda, directed by
Cristi Puiu, Romania's proposal to the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and screened in competition at Cannes, is one of the most eagerly awaited for titles of the programme.
Also as preview screening, the first Bucharest viewing of the comedy
Două lozuri/Two Lottery Tickets will be held, directed by Paul Negoescu. Inspired by I. L. Caragiale's short short story, the film revolves around the three protagonists, Sile, Dinel and Pompiliu (
Dragoș Bucur,
Alexandru Papadopol and
Dorian Boguță), who find out that it is not enough to be declared winner just because you checked all the winning numbers on the ticket, but you have to „suffer” until you get to be a millionaire, so they will go through a series of adventures up to the point when they can go to the Lottery House to cash into their prize. An interview taken by AaRC to
Paul Negoescu and
Ana Drăghici (the film's DoP) may be viewed
here.
After midnight, at Cinema Elvire Popesco, filmmakers will have a surprise-screening: one of the most eagerly awaited-for and with the most number of awards granted Romanian films of the year will have a preview screening.
To the above, a selection of shorts screened at the Romanian Film Days in Cluj will be added. Among them,
4:15 p.m. sfârşitul lumii/4:15 PM The End of The World, by Cătălin
Rotaru and Gabi Virginia Șarga, selected in the shorts competition at Cannes and granted an awards recently in Sarajevo, the extremely popular
O noapte în Tokoriki/A Night in Tokoriki, by
Roxana Stroe, winner of the Special Prize of the Generation 14plus Section in Berlin,
Ferdinand 13 – the first short directed by writer Cecilia Ștefănescu,
Raisa (directed by
Pavel Cuzuioc), a drama with Cristina Flutur in the leading role, or
7 luni mai târziu/Seven Months Later, the fourth short by
Andrei Crețulescu, starring the ever-present
Şerban Pavlu,
Dorian Boguţă,
Rodica Lazăr and
Andi Vasluianu. At TIFF, AaRC took an
interview to the crew of film 7 luni mai târziu/Seven Months Later.
The marathon also comprises titles such as
Ilegitim/Illegitimated (directed by
Adrian Sitar),
Dincolo de calea ferată/By the Railway (directed by
Cătălin Mitulescu),
Acasă la tata/Back Home (directed by
Andrei Cohn),
București NonStop (directed by
Dan Chișu) or
Lumea e a mea/The World is Mine (directed by
Nicolae Constantin Tănase).
Great actors
Radu Beligan,
Marin Moraru and
Mircea Albulescu will be remembered through tribute-films:
După-amiaza unui torționar/The Afternoon of a Torturer (directed by
Lucian Pintilie, 2001),
Operațiunea Monstrul/The Monster Operation (directed by
Manole Marcus, 1976) and
La capătul liniei/At the End of the Line (directed by
Dinu Tănase, 1982). A program of shorts directed by
Ovidiu Bose Paștina is to commemorate 10 years since his passing away.
A new section at this seventh Edition, entitled 10 years since premiere, proposes a (re)viewing of several features that marked the New Romanian Cinema, and that celebrate this year a decade since their release:
Hârtia va fi albastră/The Paper Will Be Blue (directed by
Radu Muntean),
Cum mi-am petrecut sfârșitul lumii/How I Spent the End of the World (directed by Cătălin Mitulescu),
A fost sau n-a fost?12:08 East of Bucharest (directed by
Corneliu Porumboiu),
Legături bolnăvicioase/Love Sick (directed by
Tudor Giurgiu).
Details on:
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