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ROMANIAN FILMS ROMANIAN FILM PROMOTION 2018 FEATURES & DOCUMENTARIES | 3 2019 FEATURES & DOCUMENTARIES | 31 2019 MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS | 69 2019 IN DEVELOPMENT \ PRODUCTION \ POST-PRODUCTION | 79 FILM INDEX | 97 2018 FEATURES & DOCUMENTARIES „I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” ALICE T. „ÎMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACĂ ÎN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI” ALICE T. In 1941, the Romanian army massacred Alice, a troubled teenager, has a difficult approximately 20,000 Jews in Odessa. relationship with her adoptive mother, Nowadays, a young theatre director Bogdana. One day, during a heated wants to create a performance about discussion with Bogdana, Alice makes a this dark episode of the history through shocking confession: she is pregnant and a reenactment in a public place. Is this she wants to keep the baby. performance possible? 105 MIN NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 9, 2018 140 MIN PRODUCTION COMPANY: MULTI MEDIA EST IN CO- CONTACTS: NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 CONTACTS: PRODUCTION WITH LES FILMS DE L’APRES MIDI, CHIMNEY Hi Film Productions PRODUCTION COMPANY: HI FILM PRODUCTIONS IN Multi Media Est 23A Gramont Street Intrarea Temişana 5 AND FILM I VAST WITH THE SUPPORT OF ROMANIAN FILM Bucharest, Romania CO-PRODUCTION WITH ENDORFILM, LES FILMS D’ICI, Bucharest, Romania CENTRE, EURIMAGES, COFINOVA 14, CREATIVE EUROPE / +40 21 252 48 66 KLAS FILM, KOMPLIZEN FILM AND ZDF/ARTE WITH +40 213 124 826 [email protected] [email protected] MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION THE SUPPORT OF ROMANIAN FILM CENTRE, CZECH FILM FUND, AIDE AUX CINEMAS DU MONDE, THE Directed by: Radu Muntean Screenplay: Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean, Răzvan Rădulescu BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER, EURIMAGES, SEE Cinematography: Tudor Lucaciu CINEMA NETWORK Editing: Andu Radu Directed by: Radu Jude Producers: Dragoş Vîlcu, Oana Iancu Screenplay: Radu Jude Cinematography: Marius Panduru Cast: Andra Guţi, Mihaela Sîrbu, Cristine Hămbăşanu, Ela Ionescu, Editing: Cătălin Cristuţiu Bogdan Dumitrache Producer: Ada Solomon Main Award: Best Actress (Andra Guţi) - Locarno 2018 Cast: Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan, Ilinca Manolache Other films by the director: One Floor Below (2015), Tuesday, After Main Award: Crystal Globe - Karlovy Vary 2018 Christmas (2010), Summer Holiday (2008), The Paper Will Be Blue (2006), Fury (2002) Other films by the director: The Dead Nation (2017), Scarred Hearts (2016), Aferim! (2015), Everybody in Our Family (2012), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) 4 5 BESIDE ME CHARLESTON COBORÂM LA PRIMA CHARLESTON A subway train stops between stations A bizarre love triangle about two very on the morning after the fire in the different men and the woman they Collective Club. The passengers are both lost. A dark and unconventional forced to interact and help each other. love story in the vein of Kaurismaki and We’re strangers until something brings Almodóvar, mixing black humor, music, us together. If we open up, we may drama and even dancing. notice that we have so much to share with those around us. 84 MIN 119 MIN CONTACTS: CONTACTS: Inspirational Filmmaking NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 26, 2018 ICON Production NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: JUNE 8, 2018 Str. Sfantul Andrei 34 PRODUCTION COMPANY: INSPIRATIONAL FILMMAKING 17 Ferdinand Blvd. PRODUCTION COMPANY: ICON PRODUCTION AND LES Popeşti-Leordeni, Ilfov 1st floor, apt. 5 +40 733 74 75 88 Bucharest, Romania FILMS DU TAMBOUR, IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH MILLE [email protected] Directed by: Tedy Necula +40 371 343 318 ET UNE FILMS, WAG FILMS WITH THE SUPPORT OF Screenplay: Alexandra Axinte [email protected] Cinematography: Alexandru Timoşca ROMANIAN FILM CENTRE, REGION BRETAGNE, RENNES Editing: Ana Ţurcanu METROPOLE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH KINOSSEUR, WE ARE Music: Goodbye to Gravity, Lex Dumitru BASCA, DIGITAL CUBE, WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF HBO Producer: Anca Vlăsceanu, Tedy Necula EUROPE Cast: Constantin Cotimanis, Adrian Păduraru, Teodora Mareș, Directed by: Andrei Creţulescu Emilian Oprea, Ela Ionescu Screenplay: Andrei Creţulescu Cinematography: Barbu Bălăşoiu Editing: Cătălin Cristuţiu Music: Massimiliano Nardulli Producers: Velvet Moraru, Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha, Andrei Creţulescu Cast: Şerban Pavlu, Radu Iacoban, Ana Ularu, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorian Boguţă, Ana Ciontea, Adrian Titieni Main Award: The Diploma Award of the Jury - Minsk 2017 6 7 A DECENT MAN FAULT CONDITION UN OM LA LOCUL LUI SCURTCIRCUIT Petru, a drilling engineer in his late- Melania, a 15-year-old high-school thirties, is about to get married to his student, discovers she’s pregnant with pregnant girlfriend. His apparently a classmate, Emi. The mothers of the quiet life is turned upside down when two young lovers decide against their a colleague he is secretly involved relationship. They also decide to make with loses her leg in a work-related Melania’s baby available for adoption. accident. Petru is very conflicted. His But the girl gives birth prematurely and life seems to begin while she feels hers the baby is sent to the neonatal intensive is ending. care unit in the hospital. One day later, the unit is consumed by a fire... 93 MIN 109 MIN CONTACTS: CONTACTS: 4 Proof Film NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 23, 2018 Nerv Film NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 23, 2018 12-14 G-ral C. Budisteanu Str. PRODUCTION COMPANY: 4 PROOF FILM IN CO- 4-6 Dem I. Dobrescu Str. PRODUCTION COMPANY: NERV FILM IN CO-PRODUCTION C Building, 1st floor, room 7 1st floor, room 78 Bucharest, Romania PRODUCTION WITH OBLIQUE MEDIA FILM +40 722 346 346 WITH CINEMAGIX ID WITH THE SUPPORT OF ROMANIAN +40 740 155 602 [email protected] [email protected] WITH THE SUPPORT OF ROMANIAN FILM FILM CENTRE CENTRE, DAFORA, MINDSHARE MEDIA, OMD IN Directed by: Cătălin Saizescu COLLABORATION THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL Screenplay: Ioana Vicol, Marius Th. Barna TELEVISION Cinematography: Silviu Stavilă Music: Barbu Tripăduş, Ionuţ Grigorescu Directed by: Hadrian Marcu Editing: Tudor Chivulescu Screenplay: Hadrian Marcu Producer: Cătălin Saizescu Cinematography: Adrian Silişteanu Editing: Alexandru Radu Cast: Maruca Băiaşu, Manuel Nicolae, Georgiana Saizescu, Oana Ştefă- Producers: Anamaria Antoci, Adrian Silişteanu nescu, Magda Catone Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache, Ada Galeş, Mădălina Constantin, Main Award: Golden Goblet for Outstanding Artistic Achievements Adrian Titieni - Shanghai IFF 2017 Other films by the director: Super Weekend (2004) 8 9 FREE DACIANS * FROZEN IGNAT DACII LIBERI IGNAT ÎNGHEŢAT The free Dacians are living in Romania Young Ana has been living abroad. and they are in love with the country. When her grandfather dies, she comes A film about nationalism in the year back home, to an isolated village in the when Romania celebrates the 100th Danube Delta. Is she ready to learn the anniversary of the Great Union of 1918, troubling details of her family’s past? when Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldova and Bessarabia became Romania. 70 MIN 90 MIN CONTACTS: CONTACTS: Manifest Film NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 30, 2018 Paradox Film NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 9, 2018 28 D. Tacu Str., PRODUCTION COMPANY: MANIFEST FILM Calea Moşilor nr. 189, PRODUCTION COMPANY: PARADOX FILM Bucharest, Romania bloc 1, scara 1, ap. 8, +40 749 100 958 Bucharest, Romania WITH THE SUPPORT OF ROMANIAN FILM CENTRE AND office@manifestfilm@ Directed by: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Andrei Gorgan +40 21 211 86 56 ZENITH MEDIA COMMUNICATION gmail.com Screenplay: Andrei Gorgan, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan [email protected] Cinematography: Laurenţiu Răducanu Directed by: Dinu Tănase Editing: Andrei Gorgan Screenplay: Dinu Tănase, Răzvan Roşca Producer: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan Cinematography: Pătru Păunescu Editing: Ion Petru-Tănase Music: Mircea Florian Producers: Marius Th. Barna, Avram Iclozan Cast: Alexandra Fasolă, Dana Dogaru, Dorel Vişan, Constantin Cojocaru Other films by the director: At the End of the Line (1982), The Show Goes On (1985), A Song in the Morning (1988), Damen Tango (2004), Portraits in the Forest (2017) (*documentary) 10 11 INFINITE FOOTBALL * LEMONADE FOTBAL INFINIT LEMONADE „Last fall, a good childhood friend of Mara, a 30-year-old Romanian, has mine, Florin, told me that his brother, recently moved to the United States Laurenţiu, invented a new sport by with her 9-year-old son Dragoş, changing the rules of the football after marrying Daniel, an American game. One month later I went to my construction worker whom she has only hometown, Vaslui, with a small film met a few months ago. The film follows crew, to learn more about the new Mara through a series of revealing sport...” (Corneliu Porumboiu) encounters... 88 MIN NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 26, 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY: MOBRA FILMS IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH PERIPHERIA 70 MIN PRODUCTIONS, 42FILM, FILMGATE, FILM I VAST WITH CONTACTS: CONTACTS: THE SUPPORT OF EURIMAGES, ROMANIAN FILM CENTRE, 42 Km Film NATIONAL RELEASE DATE: MARCH 9, 2018 Mobra Films 34, Hristo Botev Blvd., PRODUCTION COMPANY: 42 KM FILM 5 Intrarea Serdarului TELEFILM CANADA, SOCIÉTÉ DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES 2nd floor, ap. 3 Bucharest, Romania ENTREPRISES CULTURELLES-QUEBEC, MITTELDEUTSCHE Bucharest, Romania +40 216 664 827 +40 735 300 329 Directed by: Corneliu Porumboiu [email protected] MEDIENFÖRDERUNG, CREATIVE EUROPE / MEDIA [email protected] Cinematography: Tudor Mircea PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE ROMANIAN Editing: Roxana Szel NATIONAL TELEVISION Producer: Marcela Ursu Directed by: Ioana Uricaru Cast: Laurenţiu Ginghină, Corneliu Porumboiu Screenplay: Ioana Uricaru, Tatiana Ionaşcu Cinematography: Friede