The 57th edition includes new films by directors Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev, Tinatin Kajrishvili and Babak Jalali.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 57th edition, including new features by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev and Tinatin Kajrishvili.
The festival, which runs from June 30-July 8 in the Czech spa town, has nine world premieres and two international premieres in its main Crystal Globe Competition.
Canadian director Plante, whose Nadia Butterfly was in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020 and Fake Tattoos played in the Berlinale’s Generation strand in 2018, world premieres arthouse thriller Red Rooms about a woman...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 57th edition, including new features by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev and Tinatin Kajrishvili.
The festival, which runs from June 30-July 8 in the Czech spa town, has nine world premieres and two international premieres in its main Crystal Globe Competition.
Canadian director Plante, whose Nadia Butterfly was in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020 and Fake Tattoos played in the Berlinale’s Generation strand in 2018, world premieres arthouse thriller Red Rooms about a woman...
- 5/30/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, Eastern and Central Europe’s leading cinema event, has unveiled its lineup, which includes new works by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev, Tinatin Kajrishvili and Babak Jalali in the Crystal Globes Competition. They will vie against films by up-and-comers Ernst De Geer, Itsaso Arana and Cyril Aris. The section has nine world and two international premieres. Oscar-nominated actor Patricia Clarkson is one of the jury members.
The Proxima Competition, which made its debut at last year’s Kviff, presents what the festival defines as “bold works,” directed by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike. The section comprises of 10 world and two international premieres. The festival says “playfulness, courage and freshness can be found” in the new films by Swiss auteur Thomas Imbach, Poland’s Olga Chajdas, Cyprus-born Kyros Papavassiliou, French filmmaker Émilie Brisavoine and Romanian documentarist Alexandru Solomon, among others.
Eight films will play in the Special Screenings section,...
The Proxima Competition, which made its debut at last year’s Kviff, presents what the festival defines as “bold works,” directed by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike. The section comprises of 10 world and two international premieres. The festival says “playfulness, courage and freshness can be found” in the new films by Swiss auteur Thomas Imbach, Poland’s Olga Chajdas, Cyprus-born Kyros Papavassiliou, French filmmaker Émilie Brisavoine and Romanian documentarist Alexandru Solomon, among others.
Eight films will play in the Special Screenings section,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Hushed audiences witnessed footage of the first Russian shells hitting cities in Ukraine on the opening night of the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday as frontline filmmaking was honored.
Oksana Moiseniuk’s “8th Day of the War” screened at the Czech city’s venerable Dko cultural hall after audiences heard from the Ukrainian director via video link from Kiev, which remains under shelling in the eighth month of the war. The film’s diary-like immediacy captures the outbreak of the Russian attacks through the eyes of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic as they try to carry on with a semblance of normalcy, while their minds are consumed with the events taking place back home and they try to help any way they can.
Amid dimly lit tables in the decades-old theater building, Romanian producer Ada Solomon, a key film figure in regional art film behind “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,...
Oksana Moiseniuk’s “8th Day of the War” screened at the Czech city’s venerable Dko cultural hall after audiences heard from the Ukrainian director via video link from Kiev, which remains under shelling in the eighth month of the war. The film’s diary-like immediacy captures the outbreak of the Russian attacks through the eyes of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic as they try to carry on with a semblance of normalcy, while their minds are consumed with the events taking place back home and they try to help any way they can.
Amid dimly lit tables in the decades-old theater building, Romanian producer Ada Solomon, a key film figure in regional art film behind “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,...
- 10/26/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
More than 90 film professionals in Romania have requested that the head of the Romanian Film Center (Cnc), Anca Mitran, steps down, after an interview in which she said that in recent years Romanian filmmakers have been making art films instead of films for the audience, and that documentaries are not meant to be screened in movie theaters, according to Film New Europe.
The first to protest were a handful of documentary filmmakers, including Alexandru Solomon, Andrei Ujica and Andrei Dascalescu, and film editor Dana Bunescu, who launched an open letter signed by Alexander Nanau, Radu Jude, Calin Peter Netzer, Radu Muntean and Stere Gulea, among others.
According to the signatories, Mitran is “attacking” Romanian art films while expressing her regret that films like those made under the Communist regime are not being made anymore.
She is also inaccurate, they said, when she said that documentaries are not popular in Romania.
The first to protest were a handful of documentary filmmakers, including Alexandru Solomon, Andrei Ujica and Andrei Dascalescu, and film editor Dana Bunescu, who launched an open letter signed by Alexander Nanau, Radu Jude, Calin Peter Netzer, Radu Muntean and Stere Gulea, among others.
According to the signatories, Mitran is “attacking” Romanian art films while expressing her regret that films like those made under the Communist regime are not being made anymore.
She is also inaccurate, they said, when she said that documentaries are not popular in Romania.
- 9/27/2022
- by Iulia Blaga
- Variety Film + TV
Further funding awarded to new Bruno Dumont feature and ‘Niko’ franchise.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s upcoming musical The End starring Tilda Swinton is one of 23 features to receive a share of €5.5m ($6.1m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Denmark, Germany and Ireland, receives €480,000 – the largest of the 23 awards in this selection.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The End stars George MacKay and Stephen Graham alongside Swinton in the musical about the last human family. Neon has acquired North America rights.
The Empire, the latest film from French director Bruno Dumont,...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s upcoming musical The End starring Tilda Swinton is one of 23 features to receive a share of €5.5m ($6.1m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Denmark, Germany and Ireland, receives €480,000 – the largest of the 23 awards in this selection.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The End stars George MacKay and Stephen Graham alongside Swinton in the musical about the last human family. Neon has acquired North America rights.
The Empire, the latest film from French director Bruno Dumont,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
New features by Gabriel de Achim, Sebastian Mihailescu, Alina Grigore and Octav Chelaru.
The new feature by Gabriel de Achim and Sebastian Mihailescu’ debut documentary feature are among the new projects being presented to sales agents and festival programmers in the Closed Screenings industry strand of the Transilvania International Film Festival this week.
De Achim’s Snowing Darkness, which is produced by Anca Puiu and Smaranda Zarnoiau of Bucharest-based Mandragora, centres on a film director living through the traumatic experience of the death of his young daughter.
The director said the film “arose from a personal depression I thought I’d never overcome,...
The new feature by Gabriel de Achim and Sebastian Mihailescu’ debut documentary feature are among the new projects being presented to sales agents and festival programmers in the Closed Screenings industry strand of the Transilvania International Film Festival this week.
De Achim’s Snowing Darkness, which is produced by Anca Puiu and Smaranda Zarnoiau of Bucharest-based Mandragora, centres on a film director living through the traumatic experience of the death of his young daughter.
The director said the film “arose from a personal depression I thought I’d never overcome,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The longlist includes the winners from both Sheffield Doc/Fest and Idfa.
The European Film Academy has unveiled the 15 documentaries that have been recommended for nomination at the 2018 European Film Awards.
Scroll down for full line-up.
They include The Silence Of Others by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, which won the grand jury award at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Serbian director Mila Turajlic’s The Other Side of Everything, winner of Idfa’s best feature-length documentary prize.
Also nominated is Jane Magnusson’s Bergman – A Year In A Life, which premiered in Cannes Classics, and Stefano Savona...
The European Film Academy has unveiled the 15 documentaries that have been recommended for nomination at the 2018 European Film Awards.
Scroll down for full line-up.
They include The Silence Of Others by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, which won the grand jury award at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Serbian director Mila Turajlic’s The Other Side of Everything, winner of Idfa’s best feature-length documentary prize.
Also nominated is Jane Magnusson’s Bergman – A Year In A Life, which premiered in Cannes Classics, and Stefano Savona...
- 8/15/2018
- ScreenDaily
The history of the world’s oldest primate research institute, in Abkhazia on the Black Sea, takes on a more metaphorical dimension in the provocatively but also rather misleadingly titled Tarzan’s Testicles (Ouale lui Tarzan), the latest documentary from Romanian director Alexandru Solomon (Cold Waves). At times creepy and uncomfortable in all the wrong ways and then gorgeously poetic or piercingly lucid in all the right ones, this highly unusual feature explores both a very specific location that has been used for medical testing on monkeys for decades and a much larger place: the country in which it is situated, Abkhazia,...
- 7/14/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All the winners from the event in Cluj.
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country (pictured) and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of [link...
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country (pictured) and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of [link...
- 6/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
All the winners from the event in Cluj.
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov...
Nana & Simon’s (Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross) My Happy Family was the big winner this weekend at the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) in Romania’s Cluj, clinching the $16,822 (€15,000) Transilvania Trophy.
In addition, the film’s lead actress Ia Shugliashvili was presented with the best performance award for her first acting role as a woman giving her life a radical change on her 52nd birthday.
The competition jury, which included producers Andras Muhi and Elizabeth Karlsen and film critic Geoff Andrew, presented the best directing award to Icelandic film-maker Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson for his debut Heartstone which was also voted by the festival-goers as the winner of this year’s Audience Award.
The jury gave its special jury award to UK film-maker Francis Lee’s debut God’s Own Country and made a special mention of Glory, the second feature by the Bulgarian co-directing team of Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov...
- 6/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The final film from Krzysztof Krauze and new project from Giorgi Ovashvili to play in main competition.Scroll Down For Competition Line-ups
The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West and Documentary sections.
Main competition
The 12-strong main competition will comprise eight world premieres and four international premieres, including Birds Are Singing In Kigali (pictured), the final film from Polish director Krzysztof Krauze, who died in 2014.
The project, which depicts the consequences of the Rwandan genocide, was completed by his co-director and wife Joanna Kos-Krauze.
Other films in competition include Boris Khlebnikov’s new drama Arrhythmia, Václav Kadrnka’s Little Crusader, Peter Bebjak’s criminal thriller The Line and Giorgi Ovashvili’s Georgian historical drama Khibula. Ovashvili returns after winning the Kviff Crystal Globe for Corn Island in 2014.
East of the West
The East of the West strand will open with Ilgar Najaf...
The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West and Documentary sections.
Main competition
The 12-strong main competition will comprise eight world premieres and four international premieres, including Birds Are Singing In Kigali (pictured), the final film from Polish director Krzysztof Krauze, who died in 2014.
The project, which depicts the consequences of the Rwandan genocide, was completed by his co-director and wife Joanna Kos-Krauze.
Other films in competition include Boris Khlebnikov’s new drama Arrhythmia, Václav Kadrnka’s Little Crusader, Peter Bebjak’s criminal thriller The Line and Giorgi Ovashvili’s Georgian historical drama Khibula. Ovashvili returns after winning the Kviff Crystal Globe for Corn Island in 2014.
East of the West
The East of the West strand will open with Ilgar Najaf...
- 5/30/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
The final film from Krzysztof Krauze and new project from Giorgi Ovashvili to play in main competition.Scroll Down For Competition Line-ups
The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West and Documentary sections.
Main competition
The 12-strong main competition will comprise eight world premieres and four international premieres, including Birds Are Singing In Kigali (pictured), the final film from Polish director Krzysztof Krauze, who died in 2014.
The project, which depicts the consequences of the Rwandan genocide, was completed by his co-director and wife Joanna Kos-Krauze.
Other films in competition include Boris Khlebnikov’s new drama Arrhythmia, Václav Kadrnka’s Little Crusader, Peter Bebjak’s criminal thriller The Line and Giorgi Ovashvili’s Georgian historical drama Khibula. Ovashvili returns after winning the Kviff Crystal Globe for Corn Island in 2014.
East of the West
The East of the West strand will open with Ilgar Najaf...
The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West and Documentary sections.
Main competition
The 12-strong main competition will comprise eight world premieres and four international premieres, including Birds Are Singing In Kigali (pictured), the final film from Polish director Krzysztof Krauze, who died in 2014.
The project, which depicts the consequences of the Rwandan genocide, was completed by his co-director and wife Joanna Kos-Krauze.
Other films in competition include Boris Khlebnikov’s new drama Arrhythmia, Václav Kadrnka’s Little Crusader, Peter Bebjak’s criminal thriller The Line and Giorgi Ovashvili’s Georgian historical drama Khibula. Ovashvili returns after winning the Kviff Crystal Globe for Corn Island in 2014.
East of the West
The East of the West strand will open with Ilgar Najaf...
- 5/30/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 17 co-productions received a share of $5.8m
The Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund is to plough €4.54m ($5.8m) into 16 feature films and one documentary project.
Among the projects selected at the meeting, held from Oct 13-16 in Strasbourg, was Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune (Kollektivet).
The upcoming film from the Danish director of Oscar-nominated The Hunt was recently shopped at Toronto by TrustNordisk
The story, scriped by Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt, A Hijacking), focuses on the clash between personal desires versus the solidarity and tolerance in a commune in the mid 1970s.
Cast has yet to be announced and shooting is expected to start later this year,
Eurimages will also support the new film from Corneliu Porumboiu, director of When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.
His latest project, The Treasure (Comoara), began shooting on 15 October and follows two men as they face a series of misadventures in their quest to find a treasure...
The Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund is to plough €4.54m ($5.8m) into 16 feature films and one documentary project.
Among the projects selected at the meeting, held from Oct 13-16 in Strasbourg, was Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune (Kollektivet).
The upcoming film from the Danish director of Oscar-nominated The Hunt was recently shopped at Toronto by TrustNordisk
The story, scriped by Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt, A Hijacking), focuses on the clash between personal desires versus the solidarity and tolerance in a commune in the mid 1970s.
Cast has yet to be announced and shooting is expected to start later this year,
Eurimages will also support the new film from Corneliu Porumboiu, director of When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.
His latest project, The Treasure (Comoara), began shooting on 15 October and follows two men as they face a series of misadventures in their quest to find a treasure...
- 10/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Other projects supported by Romania’s film fund include Cristian Mungiu’s Rmd and Tudor Giurgiu’s Apropierea.
Romania’s Centrul National al Cinematografiei (Cnc) has become the latest European film fund to be raided by the ubiquitous film-maker Peter Greenaway for a future project.
Greenaway’s Walking To Paris (Mergand Spre Paris), which is being structured as a co-production between his regular producer Kees Kasander’s UK-based Cinatura, Switzerland’s Cobra Film, France’s Cdp Productions and Romania’s Abis Studio, received 291,000 Ron (€65,000) in the results of the 2013 call for projects.
Walking To Paris centres on the 27-year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi who set off a month-long trek across Europe from Romania to Paris in 1903, and will show how Brancusi’s fight for survival and many adventures during his journey influenced his subsequent work.
Greenaway had previously accessed the Croatian Audiovisual Centre for Goltzius And The Pelican Company and the Polish Film Institute for Nightwatching, while...
Romania’s Centrul National al Cinematografiei (Cnc) has become the latest European film fund to be raided by the ubiquitous film-maker Peter Greenaway for a future project.
Greenaway’s Walking To Paris (Mergand Spre Paris), which is being structured as a co-production between his regular producer Kees Kasander’s UK-based Cinatura, Switzerland’s Cobra Film, France’s Cdp Productions and Romania’s Abis Studio, received 291,000 Ron (€65,000) in the results of the 2013 call for projects.
Walking To Paris centres on the 27-year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi who set off a month-long trek across Europe from Romania to Paris in 1903, and will show how Brancusi’s fight for survival and many adventures during his journey influenced his subsequent work.
Greenaway had previously accessed the Croatian Audiovisual Centre for Goltzius And The Pelican Company and the Polish Film Institute for Nightwatching, while...
- 4/14/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s European Co-Production Award – Prix Eurimages will go to Ada Solomon from Romania.
The award, acknowledging the role of co-productions in the European film industry, will be presented during the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Dec 7.
Since setting up HiFilm, Solomon has produced award-winning shorts by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena From P7) and Radu Jude (The Tube With A Hat).
She also produced debut features by Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl In The World), Melissa de Raaf, Razvan Radulescu (First Of All, Felicia), Paul Negoescu (A Month In Thailand), and documentaries by Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism - Our Improved Formula), among others.
She has produced the Eurimages-supported film Best Intentions by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards at the Locarno Iff 2011 and of two Romanian Gopos Awards, and Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude which was also supported by Eurimages and won six Gopos Awards and the ‘Heart of Sarajevo’ 2012.
She is currently developing...
The award, acknowledging the role of co-productions in the European film industry, will be presented during the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Dec 7.
Since setting up HiFilm, Solomon has produced award-winning shorts by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena From P7) and Radu Jude (The Tube With A Hat).
She also produced debut features by Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl In The World), Melissa de Raaf, Razvan Radulescu (First Of All, Felicia), Paul Negoescu (A Month In Thailand), and documentaries by Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism - Our Improved Formula), among others.
She has produced the Eurimages-supported film Best Intentions by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards at the Locarno Iff 2011 and of two Romanian Gopos Awards, and Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude which was also supported by Eurimages and won six Gopos Awards and the ‘Heart of Sarajevo’ 2012.
She is currently developing...
- 11/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s European Co-Production Award – Prix Eurimages will go to Ada Solomon from Romania.
The award, acknowledging the role of co-productions in the European film industry, will be presented during the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Dec 7.
Since setting up HiFilm, Solomon has produced award-winning shorts by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena From P7) and Radu Jude (The Tube With A Hat).
She also produced debut features by Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl In The World), Melissa de Raaf, Razvan Radulescu (First Of All, Felicia), Paul Negoescu (A Month In Thailand), and documentaries by Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism - Our Improved Formula), among others.
She has produced the Eurimages-supported film Best Intentions by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards at the Locarno Iff 2011 and of two Romanian Gopos Awards, and Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude which was also supported by Eurimages and won six Gopos Awards and the ‘Heart of Sarajevo’ 2012.
She is currently developing...
The award, acknowledging the role of co-productions in the European film industry, will be presented during the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Dec 7.
Since setting up HiFilm, Solomon has produced award-winning shorts by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena From P7) and Radu Jude (The Tube With A Hat).
She also produced debut features by Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl In The World), Melissa de Raaf, Razvan Radulescu (First Of All, Felicia), Paul Negoescu (A Month In Thailand), and documentaries by Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism - Our Improved Formula), among others.
She has produced the Eurimages-supported film Best Intentions by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards at the Locarno Iff 2011 and of two Romanian Gopos Awards, and Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude which was also supported by Eurimages and won six Gopos Awards and the ‘Heart of Sarajevo’ 2012.
She is currently developing...
- 11/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Romanian film producer Ada Solomon: European Film Awards’ Prix Eurimages 2013 The European Film Academy has announced that the 2013 European Co-Production Award — Prix Eurimages will go to Romanian film producer Ada Solomon. The purpose of the European Film Awards’ Prix Eurimages is to acknowledge "the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry." (Photo: Ada Solomon.) According to the European Film Academy’s press release, Ada Solomon has been in the film business for two decades. She is Head of Distribution at Parada Film and Executive Director of the NexT International Film Festival in Bucharest. Additionally, she teaches at the Romanian capital’s National Film School and, along with Tudor Giurgiu, manages three mini-plex movie theaters in that country. Ada Solomon movies Since establishing her production company HiFilm, Ada Solomon productions include documentaries by her husband, filmmaker Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism — Our Improved Formula); shorts directed by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena...
- 11/18/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Half the battle in making a compelling documentary is selecting a compelling topic and Romanian producer / director Alexandru Solomon has got himself a doozy in Tarzan's Testicles. Solomon will be exploring actual research done by the Abkhazian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy throughout the Soviet era which attempted to cross breed humans with monkeys. Says Fne about the project:Romanian director/producer Alexandru Solomon is working on Tarzan's Testicles, a feature documentary on the Abkhazian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy, established in 1927, a renowned primatology center during the Communist era where scientists tried to crossbreed humans and monkeys to demonstrate the triumph of the Revolution over religion. Solomon aims to investigate the relationship between humans and monkeys many years...
- 10/30/2012
- Screen Anarchy
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Tuesday, After Christmas, and the other nominations for the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) have been announced. The 5th Annual Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) ”are the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (U.S.A.), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). They are presented by the Association for Romanian Film Promotion.” The full listing of the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) is presented below.
Best Film
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceau?escu (The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu)
Producer, Velvet Moraru; Director, Andrei Ujic?
Eu când vreau s? fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle)
Producer, C?t?lin Mitulescu, Daniel Mitulescu; Director, Florin ?erban
Mar?i, dup? Cr?ciun (Tuesday, After Christmas)
Producer, Drago? Vîlcu; Director, Radu Muntean
Medalia de onoare (Medal of Honour)
Producer, Liviu Marghidan; Director, Peter C?lin Netzer
Morgen
Producer, Anca Puiu; Director, Marian Cri?...
Best Film
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceau?escu (The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu)
Producer, Velvet Moraru; Director, Andrei Ujic?
Eu când vreau s? fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle)
Producer, C?t?lin Mitulescu, Daniel Mitulescu; Director, Florin ?erban
Mar?i, dup? Cr?ciun (Tuesday, After Christmas)
Producer, Drago? Vîlcu; Director, Radu Muntean
Medalia de onoare (Medal of Honour)
Producer, Liviu Marghidan; Director, Peter C?lin Netzer
Morgen
Producer, Anca Puiu; Director, Marian Cri?...
- 2/23/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
[Editor's note: I've asked our team of world film correspondents to dish out their top 5 films of the year from their respective countries. Here's Marin Apostol's take on the Best in Romanian Cinema in 2010.] It was one more vintage year for Romanian films on the world cinema scene. The long-awaited film from Cristi Puiu in the Cannes' Un Certain Regard selected Aurora won over some critics (including two on our site) but those who didn;t give the film a glowing review accused the film which runs at 180 minutes of being too long. Despite this, the film has been sold to more than a dozen countries (including The Cinema Guild in the U.S.) and it will be released internationally next year, as well as domestically. Another Romanian film that received a lot of good reviews through the year has been Radu Muntean’s Tuesday, After Christmas. This was the movie that pushed La Times' Steven Zeitchik to say that, "Romanians can't make a bad film. It's, like, illegal in their country. Or at least not in their DNA." Romanians were especially proud by...
- 12/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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