Created in 2007 and organized by Romanian Film Promotion (APFR) and the Film and Urban Culture Association (AFCU), the Gopo Awards Gala celebrates the previous year’s national films. It was held on May 3rd at Bucharest’s I. L. Caragiale National Theatre. This year 19 films shown in Romanian cinemas or on video-on-demand were selected in …
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Romanian director Liviu Marghidan is finishing post-production on his third feature, Refuge. The film, co-written with Alexandra Posa, takes us into the heart of a broken family. After their parents’ divorce, the brother and sister are separated. The girl lives with her mother in France and the boy in Romania with his father. Every year …
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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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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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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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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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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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