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ROMANIA / Romanian director Radu Jude won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Romanian director Radu Jude won the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale for “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”. The 71st Berlinale took place online between March 1st to 5th, reduced from its usual eleven days to just five. “A vitriolic portrait of contemporary society, from the military to the religious, not forgetting the nouveau riche and …

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ROMANIA / Collective put forward for the 2021 Oscars

Alexander Nanau’s Collective has been chosen to represent Romania at the Oscars – the first time Romania has chosen a documentary to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category. The film shows the investigation into corruption after a fire in a night-club killed 64 people. Shot during the twelve months after the fire, …

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ROMANIA / Beginning of the second part of the Astra Film Festival

The Astra Film Festival is Romania’s oldest documentary film festival. This year the organisers decided to split the event in two. 40 films were screened in Sibiu from September 4th to 13th. The second part of the festival began on October 16th with 41 films available online until October 25th. AFF Online will also host …

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EUROPE / Éducation à l’image with the EFF

The European Film Factory (EFF) is a film education platform. Their website, accessible on all digital devices, is for students aged 11 to 18 and for all European teachers. Since August 26th educational guides in German, English, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Polish and even Romanian have been put online so that Internet users can discover …

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ROMANIA / Record selection for the TIFF

The Transylvanian International Film Festival (TIFF) was held from July 31st to August 9th. This year’s festival was marked by a record number of films: 21 features, including seven world premieres, and 16 short films were on the programme. The world premieres include Tudor Cristian Jurgio’s And They May Still Be Alive Today (Romania / …

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ROMANIA / Post-production completed for Lebensdorf

Romanian director Valentin Hotea is currently finalizing his second feature, Lebensdorf, about a fictional writer, Ducu Dobrescu, faced with mid-life crisis. As he leaves Bucharest to take part in a creative residency in Berlin, Dobrescu thinks about his future, unable to make up his mind between two countries and two women. The director describes his …

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ROMANIA / Candidate call for the Pustnik Screen-writers’ Residency

For the sixth consecutive year, the Pustnik Screen-writers’ Residency is launching a call for applications. This year the dates are from September 7th to 15th and the theme is “The seen and the unseen”. Pustnik is for film-makers developing their first or second feature and is the only residency of its kind in Romania. Of …

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