MUVILEND MOVIELAND Fokus kon filmski dela i avtori od Romanija od poslednite godini Focus on Romanian filmworks and authors

from the last years

WAVES D: Adrian Sitaru C: Sergiu Costache, Adrian Titieni At the seaside, on the beach, two people experience extreme situations. A beautiful Western mother asks a gypsy boy to look after her 4 year old baby; a husband and father fights ennui by flirting with the same beautiful foreigner while teaching her how to swim. But the story takes a different course when the beautiful mother disappears in the waves (Fict, 16, 35mm, 2007, ROM) [Best Short - Locarno; Sundance, Sarajevo, Namur, Milano] IN A BAR D/S: Patricia Radoi DoP: Steven Smith E: Haim Litani M: Francois Gamaury P: Daniel Mitelpunkt C: Rebecca Rebecca Perry, Oliver Oliver Chatham Rebecca is not quite sure what she will say to the girl who is sleeping with her husband, but she has up the meeting anyway. While waiting for her rival in love, however, an opportunity crops up to get revenge. (Fict, 5, DVC-Pro HD, 2008, GBR/ROM) A GOOD DAY FOR A SWIM D: Bogdan Mustata C: Florin Sinescu, Okan Kaya (Fict, 10, 35mm, 2007, ROM) [Golden Bear, Berlin] DUTY D/S: Vlad Trandafir DoP: Augustin Bucur E: Daniel Simion P: Nicoleta Daraban NUDC I.L. Caragiale C: Dan Chisu, Nathalie Arsenie Macry Mikey, as he is caressly being called, does shopping for Vali, his old mother who lives alone with her kitten. Vali calls for him daily, insisting to buy her, among other stuff, sugar. Its a demand which annoys the entire family and which Mikey himself wearily accomplishes. Its a duty he carries out distantly, like an obligation. (Fict, 13, HDV, 2006, ROM) [Best Fiction Tehran Short FF)

ME AND MY LIFE WITHOUT SOME THINGS D/S: Ilija Piperkoski DoP: Dan Kosuth E: Lodrin Iftodi M: Radu Georgescu Macedonian Ilija Piperkoski, who studied directing in Bucharest, made his first movie Me and my life without some things by following the journey of Dumitru Dragosh, 22 years-old Gipsy, through Romania, who is trying to find his father. Search finishes completely unexpected, but through it we can find distressful life story of Dragosh who after all wont loose his cheerfulness and decisiveness. (Doc, 40, DVCam, 2007, ROM/MKD] [Cinedays] TRAFFIC D: Catalin Mitulescu S: Andrea Valean & C. Mitulescu DoP: Marius Panduru E: Ion Ioachim Stroe C: Bogdan Dumitrache, Maria Dinulescu On his way to a business meeting, Tudor has a 20-minute break. Enough time to invite a girl for coffee, talk about his daughter and take a photo. (Fict, 15, 35mm, 2003, ROM) [Palme dOr - Cannes, Arte Award - Anger] HUMANITARIAN AID D/S: Hanno Hfer C: Eugen Cristea, Mirela Oprisor Three young men from Western Europe arrive in Romania with humanitarian aid. The inhabitants of a little mountain village have been waiting for them. Theres a little give and big take about the whole thing. (Fict, 16, 35mm, 2003, ROM) [Clermont Ferrand, Cottbus, Milano]