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
Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean’s latest work, Întregalde, expertly plays with genre trappings to tell a grounded story of humanitarian impulses gone awry. Set in rural Transylvania as we follow a trio of aid workers who find themselves in an unfamiliar locale while night closes in, it’s an enveloping, precise study of cracking open the veneer of generosity––and one of the best ending shots this year.
Ahead of a theatrical release from Grasshopper Film beginning at Film Forum this Friday, I spoke with Muntean about the decade-long process of developing his project, carefully forming his characters, nature as a setting, humanitarian hypocrisy, and working with non-professional actor Luca Sabin.
The Film Stage: I saw that you had been developing this idea for about a decade, so I’m curious if you can talk about that process of first coming up with the idea and then when you knew...
Ahead of a theatrical release from Grasshopper Film beginning at Film Forum this Friday, I spoke with Muntean about the decade-long process of developing his project, carefully forming his characters, nature as a setting, humanitarian hypocrisy, and working with non-professional actor Luca Sabin.
The Film Stage: I saw that you had been developing this idea for about a decade, so I’m curious if you can talk about that process of first coming up with the idea and then when you knew...
- 3/17/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A lot gets lost in Radu Muntean’s fantastic “Întregalde.” Stuck in the mud as night falls in the thick of an increasingly sinister Romanian forest, people lose tempers, minds, control of their bowels, loyalties, ideals and maybe even a sense of themselves as decent, altruistic souls. But this uncannily gripping tragicomedy never loses your attention: Muntean, whose pedigree was established with 2010’s “Tuesday After Christmas,” but whose track record since has been more erratic than that of many of his Romanian New Wave peers, finds unexpectedly compelling new levels of scabrous humor and moving insight this time out. He is a filmmaker dynamically reborn amid the mulch and fallen leaves of the Transylvanian countryside, beside a stalled jeep that, like a Beckettian device, might be there but also might not.
In the back of the four-wheel-drive is Maria, who is riding with chatty, romantically frustrated Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and quick-tempered,...
In the back of the four-wheel-drive is Maria, who is riding with chatty, romantically frustrated Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and quick-tempered,...
- 10/15/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
A trailer for Romanian director Radu Muntean’s eighth film and the fourth to be selected for Cannes has dropped ahead of its screening at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight.
“Întregalde,” the first acquisition of Romanian distribution company Voodoo Films’ sales arm, is a tense and mud-splattered affair that explores the true nature of altruism.
The film follows a trio of Millennials on their end-of-year mission to deliver parcels to a series of remote villages in rural Transylvania: there’s earnest Maria (Maria Popistasu), sociable Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and SUV petrolhead Dan (Alex Bogdan).
The tone is set early on in an argument between a volunteer couple that Maria gets a lift with: Radu (the director in a cameo role) and Cristina (Carmen Lopazan), who chastises her boyfriend for feeling pleased with himself that an eight-year-old girl that he handed a tablet to remembered him from an earlier mission. She...
“Întregalde,” the first acquisition of Romanian distribution company Voodoo Films’ sales arm, is a tense and mud-splattered affair that explores the true nature of altruism.
The film follows a trio of Millennials on their end-of-year mission to deliver parcels to a series of remote villages in rural Transylvania: there’s earnest Maria (Maria Popistasu), sociable Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and SUV petrolhead Dan (Alex Bogdan).
The tone is set early on in an argument between a volunteer couple that Maria gets a lift with: Radu (the director in a cameo role) and Cristina (Carmen Lopazan), who chastises her boyfriend for feeling pleased with himself that an eight-year-old girl that he handed a tablet to remembered him from an earlier mission. She...
- 7/6/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Afghan-German filmmaker Burhan Qurbani, director of hard-hitting social drama “We Are Young. We Are Strong,” is adapting Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” one of Germany’s most renowned literary works of the past century. It was adapted twice previously, most famously by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as a 1980 miniseries that remains an acclaimed and beloved classic. Departing from the book’s 1920s setting, Qurbani’s story takes place in the African refugee community of present-day Berlin. He spoke to Variety about the challenges of adapting a masterpiece, the refugee crisis and being haunted by Fassbinder.
How did the project come about?
Some four years ago I started working on the idea to adapt the novel. And then the refugee crisis came upon us. Of course there are many, many tragic, terrible, disturbing, wonderful and heart-warming original stories that refugees have to tell and those should be told. I chose a...
How did the project come about?
Some four years ago I started working on the idea to adapt the novel. And then the refugee crisis came upon us. Of course there are many, many tragic, terrible, disturbing, wonderful and heart-warming original stories that refugees have to tell and those should be told. I chose a...
- 9/8/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Iniative kicks off as film festivals continue to asses the merits of co-production markets.
Boost Nl, the new collaborative project between the Holland Film Meeting (Hfm, Sept 22-25) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart, is launching officially this week at the Hfm, which began today at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht
The idea behind the initiative, which will continue at the Iffr’s Cinemart next January, is not just to help Dutch projects but to assist further a number of projects that have already received support from Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund or have been presented at CineMart.
Speaking to Screen, Hfm chief Vanja Kaludjercic gave further details of the “enhanced coproduction experience” offered to the selected projects.
“Some things cannot be achieved in only three days of the event itself so what we have created is an extended trajectory,” Kaludjercic said of the new Utrecht/Rotterdam axis. The intention...
Boost Nl, the new collaborative project between the Holland Film Meeting (Hfm, Sept 22-25) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart, is launching officially this week at the Hfm, which began today at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht
The idea behind the initiative, which will continue at the Iffr’s Cinemart next January, is not just to help Dutch projects but to assist further a number of projects that have already received support from Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund or have been presented at CineMart.
Speaking to Screen, Hfm chief Vanja Kaludjercic gave further details of the “enhanced coproduction experience” offered to the selected projects.
“Some things cannot be achieved in only three days of the event itself so what we have created is an extended trajectory,” Kaludjercic said of the new Utrecht/Rotterdam axis. The intention...
- 9/22/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The River Run International Film Festival wrapped its 18th edition in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with its narrative feature award going to Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, which was, in the words of the jury, “an audacious debut from a promising American talent.”
Best documentary feature went to Mike Plunkett’s Salero, about one of the last salt gatherers in Bolivia. The jury praised that film “for its astonishing visuals, narrative acuity and ability to showcase characters that go against the grain.”
The Fits, a Venice Biennale College project that also played at Sundance, also won best actress for its impressive young newcomer Royalty Hightower.
Interestingly, there is a link between the two top winners — debutant director Holmer from The Fits also served as a producer on Salero.
The jury’s best ensemble performance went to Jackson Martin, Nick Serino and Reece Moffett in Sleeping Giant, with best director honours for Romania’s Radu Muntean for One...
Best documentary feature went to Mike Plunkett’s Salero, about one of the last salt gatherers in Bolivia. The jury praised that film “for its astonishing visuals, narrative acuity and ability to showcase characters that go against the grain.”
The Fits, a Venice Biennale College project that also played at Sundance, also won best actress for its impressive young newcomer Royalty Hightower.
Interestingly, there is a link between the two top winners — debutant director Holmer from The Fits also served as a producer on Salero.
The jury’s best ensemble performance went to Jackson Martin, Nick Serino and Reece Moffett in Sleeping Giant, with best director honours for Romania’s Radu Muntean for One...
- 4/17/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Nothing is more universal, it seems, than border trouble. It's the heart and soul, the foreground and backdrop, of Rafi Pitts's "Soy Nero." The Iranian's fifth feature — his first in six years following "The Hunter" — begins in Tijuana, journeys to Los Angeles, and concludes in the anonymous "Na Koja-abad" (no man's land) of a Middle Eastern desert. Co-writing with Romanian screenwriter Razvan Radulescu (who worked on notable award-winners "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" and "Child's Pose"), Pitts drags his figurative approach to storytelling into the muscular realms of urban drama and wartime thriller. As a world-we-live-in dispatch, the film offers plenty of interpretable discussion points. In this righteous, sometimes gripping genre-melding work, geographical boundaries are the root of violent skirmishes, political tensions, racial prejudices, and class war. Laden with meticulously baked...
- 2/17/2016
- by Michael Pattison
- Indiewire
★★★☆☆ The subject of guilt is one that cinema often returns to for its potential to be expressed in inventive and thought-provoking ways. In Radu Muntean's pared-down and naturalistic One Floor Below (2015), he and co-screenwriters Alexandru Baciu and Razvan Radulescu choose to take a similar route to Michael Haneke's highly-regarded Hidden (2005) by giving corporeal form to the externalised spectre of remorse. "We need to lose some weight," says Sandu Patrascu (Teodor Corban) to his equally paunch dog Jerry as they jog around a park. His conscience is soon a far greater burden, however, in this absorbing investigation into the culpability of inaction.
Returning home with Jerry, Patrascu happens upon two of his neighbours in a heated argument but carries on up to the apartment he shares with his wife Olga (Oxana Moravec) and son Matei (Ionut Bora). The next day, the young woman from downstairs, Laura, is found dead,...
Returning home with Jerry, Patrascu happens upon two of his neighbours in a heated argument but carries on up to the apartment he shares with his wife Olga (Oxana Moravec) and son Matei (Ionut Bora). The next day, the young woman from downstairs, Laura, is found dead,...
- 9/11/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Film-makers across Europe are “in shock” after learning the news that the Nipkow Programm has not received backing from the EU’s Creative Europe programme for 2015-2016.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Nipkow Programm managing director Petra Weisenburger explained that the Berlin-based training initiative had not been successful in the latest round of funding for the next two years and would explore alternative strategies for a survival plan.
In the current financial year, Creative Europe had provided nearly 46% (€180,400) of Nipkow’s overall budget, with the remaining €215,543 coming from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Mbb) and Germany’s State Minister for Culture and the Media (Bkm).
Weisenburger said that Mbb’s CEO Kirsten Niehuus had already indicated a desire to see the Nipkow Programm continue to exist, but the situation remains unclear about the funding from Bkm for 2015 onwards.
She added that the Nipkow Programm jury of experts will meet during the next Berlinale in February to discuss the initiative’s future...
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Nipkow Programm managing director Petra Weisenburger explained that the Berlin-based training initiative had not been successful in the latest round of funding for the next two years and would explore alternative strategies for a survival plan.
In the current financial year, Creative Europe had provided nearly 46% (€180,400) of Nipkow’s overall budget, with the remaining €215,543 coming from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Mbb) and Germany’s State Minister for Culture and the Media (Bkm).
Weisenburger said that Mbb’s CEO Kirsten Niehuus had already indicated a desire to see the Nipkow Programm continue to exist, but the situation remains unclear about the funding from Bkm for 2015 onwards.
She added that the Nipkow Programm jury of experts will meet during the next Berlinale in February to discuss the initiative’s future...
- 11/12/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
I am not him wins best film in Turkish competition.
Blind [pictured] by Norway’s Eskil Vogt, the story of a married woman losing her sight and battling with the real and imaginary demons of her condition, won the Golden Tulip at the 33rd Istanbul International Film Festival. The jury — presided over by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and including British producer Lynda Myles from the National Film & TV School, Turkish actress Defne Halman, French director Philippe Leguay and Romanian writer/director Razvan Radulescu — added a special jury prize for Poland’s Papusza, written and directed by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze.
On the national front, Tayfun Pirselimoglou’s I am not him (Ben O Degilim) lead the field, winning the Best Film Award, also Best Script (also by Pirselimoglou) and best music (by Giorgios Komendakis), an award shared with Ali Tekbas, Serhat Bostanci and A. Imran Erin who wrote the score for Come to My Voice (Were...
Blind [pictured] by Norway’s Eskil Vogt, the story of a married woman losing her sight and battling with the real and imaginary demons of her condition, won the Golden Tulip at the 33rd Istanbul International Film Festival. The jury — presided over by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and including British producer Lynda Myles from the National Film & TV School, Turkish actress Defne Halman, French director Philippe Leguay and Romanian writer/director Razvan Radulescu — added a special jury prize for Poland’s Papusza, written and directed by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze.
On the national front, Tayfun Pirselimoglou’s I am not him (Ben O Degilim) lead the field, winning the Best Film Award, also Best Script (also by Pirselimoglou) and best music (by Giorgios Komendakis), an award shared with Ali Tekbas, Serhat Bostanci and A. Imran Erin who wrote the score for Come to My Voice (Were...
- 4/21/2014
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
Child’s Pose
Directed by Calin Peter Netzer
Romania, 2013
Continuing in the tradition of recent dominant cinematic mothers, ranging from Hye-ja Kim in Joon-ho Bong’s Mother to Jacki Weaver in David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom, Luminita Gheorghiu casts an impressively controlling maternal shadow in Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose as Cornelia Keneres.
When Cornelia’s son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) strikes and kills a child with his car, Cornelia sees the tragedy as an opportunity to steer her son’s life in the opposite direction of what she believes to be wayward and away from her.
Child’s Pose has several of the trademarks of the films of Netzer’s Romanian peers, making up what many refer to as a Romanian New Wave: long takes, class and bureaucratic commentary, abrupt cuts from scene to scene. It’s Netzer’s anxious camera, constantly panning, tilting, and zooming, that sets it apart.
Directed by Calin Peter Netzer
Romania, 2013
Continuing in the tradition of recent dominant cinematic mothers, ranging from Hye-ja Kim in Joon-ho Bong’s Mother to Jacki Weaver in David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom, Luminita Gheorghiu casts an impressively controlling maternal shadow in Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose as Cornelia Keneres.
When Cornelia’s son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) strikes and kills a child with his car, Cornelia sees the tragedy as an opportunity to steer her son’s life in the opposite direction of what she believes to be wayward and away from her.
Child’s Pose has several of the trademarks of the films of Netzer’s Romanian peers, making up what many refer to as a Romanian New Wave: long takes, class and bureaucratic commentary, abrupt cuts from scene to scene. It’s Netzer’s anxious camera, constantly panning, tilting, and zooming, that sets it apart.
- 4/12/2014
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
The Romanian cinema industry has seen an upswing in critical acclaim over the past decade, with movies such as The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days pushing them to the forefront of world cinema. The newest feature from the movie to pique the interest of the film community is Child’s Pose, which has been getting critical acclaim on the film festival circuit. The third feature from director Calin Peter Netzer, who shares screenplay duties with veteran writer Razvan Radulescu, Child’s Pose was recently selected by Romania as their official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film consideration. The Us trailer for the film was also released, and can be seen below. Our review of the film itself can be read here.
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- 12/21/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Child's Pose is an astonishing Romanian gem that deserved more of a cinema outing, unlike James Franco's attempt to put the vice back into Cruising
The ever narrowing window between the theatrical and DVD release dates of smaller-scale arthouse films is a bittersweet blessing. Viewers in multiplex-only regions get to access them before the critical conversation has cooled entirely, though the sadder flip-side is that their life in cinemas is increasingly brief. Viewed on any size of screen, however, Calin Peter Netzer's astonishing Child's Pose (Studiocanal, 15) – released theatrically only last month – is among the year's most essential films.
There's been a recent critical tendency to elevate indiscriminately just about any product of the so-called Romanian new wave to masterwork status, no matter how dour or protracted, which is perhaps why even discerning audiences were hesitant to see this diamond-hard domestic thriller – a deserved Golden Bear winner at the Berlin film festival.
The ever narrowing window between the theatrical and DVD release dates of smaller-scale arthouse films is a bittersweet blessing. Viewers in multiplex-only regions get to access them before the critical conversation has cooled entirely, though the sadder flip-side is that their life in cinemas is increasingly brief. Viewed on any size of screen, however, Calin Peter Netzer's astonishing Child's Pose (Studiocanal, 15) – released theatrically only last month – is among the year's most essential films.
There's been a recent critical tendency to elevate indiscriminately just about any product of the so-called Romanian new wave to masterwork status, no matter how dour or protracted, which is perhaps why even discerning audiences were hesitant to see this diamond-hard domestic thriller – a deserved Golden Bear winner at the Berlin film festival.
- 12/15/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
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
Beta inks deal with StudioCanal for Berlin Golden Bear winner.
StudioCanal has picked up UK rights from Beta Cinema to Calin Peter Netzer’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Child’s Pose.
The Romanian foreign language Oscar entry is scheduled for a November release after its UK debut at the BFI London Film Festival.
Produced by Netzer’s Parada Film and Ada Solomon, Child’s Pose follows a difficult mother-son relationship amid low-level corruption in contemporary Romania.
Co-written by the director and Razvan Radulescu, the film stars Luminița Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ilinca Goia and Natasa Raab.
The deal follows a recent Us deal with Zeitgeist and completes sales in all major territories.
StudioCanal has picked up UK rights from Beta Cinema to Calin Peter Netzer’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Child’s Pose.
The Romanian foreign language Oscar entry is scheduled for a November release after its UK debut at the BFI London Film Festival.
Produced by Netzer’s Parada Film and Ada Solomon, Child’s Pose follows a difficult mother-son relationship amid low-level corruption in contemporary Romania.
Co-written by the director and Razvan Radulescu, the film stars Luminița Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ilinca Goia and Natasa Raab.
The deal follows a recent Us deal with Zeitgeist and completes sales in all major territories.
- 10/3/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Beta inks deal with StudioCanal for Berlin Golden Bear winner.
StudioCanal has picked up UK rights from Beta Cinema to Calin Peter Netzer’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Child’s Pose.
The Romanian foreign language Oscar entry is scheduled for a November release after its UK debut at the London Film Festival.
Produced by Netzer’s Parada Film and Ada Solomon, Child’s Pose follows a difficult mother-son relationship amid low-level corruption in contemporary Romania.
Co-written by the director and Razvan Radulescu, the film stars Luminița Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ilinca Goia and Natasa Raab.
The deal follows a recent Us deal with Zeitgeist and completes sales in all major territories.
StudioCanal has picked up UK rights from Beta Cinema to Calin Peter Netzer’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Child’s Pose.
The Romanian foreign language Oscar entry is scheduled for a November release after its UK debut at the London Film Festival.
Produced by Netzer’s Parada Film and Ada Solomon, Child’s Pose follows a difficult mother-son relationship amid low-level corruption in contemporary Romania.
Co-written by the director and Razvan Radulescu, the film stars Luminița Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ilinca Goia and Natasa Raab.
The deal follows a recent Us deal with Zeitgeist and completes sales in all major territories.
- 10/3/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Calin Peter Netzer‘s psychological drama Child’s Pose won the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, and we’re here to congratulate Netzer and his team! Straight from Romania comes this pretty intense story of “quasi-pathological relationship” of a wealthy mother who uses her connections to try and stop her son from going to jail. Head inside to find the trailer and more details about the movie! Calin Peter Netzer directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Razvan Radulescu, which is actually a tale of corruption and guilt in modern Romania. Luminita Gheorghiu stars as the above mentioned mother – rich and...
- 2/17/2013
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
This year's Berlinale top winner: Romanian drama Child's Pose The 2013 Berlin Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Bear, was handed out at a ceremony earlier this evening. The winner was Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose / Pozitia copilului, co-written by Netzer and Razvan Radulescu. The Romanian drama depicts the travails of a rich, controlling mother's efforts to buy freedom for her selfish son, who, in a traffic accident, has killed a child from a poor family. Little regard is shown for the victim's family, while local authorities (much like those elsewhere, for that matter) are all too eager to side with the wealthy and powerful. (Pictured above: Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2006 Best Supporting Actress winner Luminita Gheorghiu in the Romanian drama Child's Pose.) In Child's Pose, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu's co-star Luminita Gheorghiu plays the domineering mother, Bogdan Dumitrache is her submissive son, while 4 Months, 3 Weeks and...
- 2/17/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Berlinale Residency, Berlin International Film Festival’s new international fellowship programme, is inviting six filmmakers with their latest projects to Berlin for four months, beginning in September 2012.
The selected participants can finalize their scripts, and develop production and distribution strategies at the Residency. Mentors will advise participants on developing and revising their scripts. In a “Script to Market” seminar with market experts, the producers and directors will explore the audience potential of their works.
The selected projects will be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 10-12, 2013) and/or at the Guadalajara Ibero-American Co-production Meeting in March 2013.
Selected projects
Matías Bize, Chile: The Memory of Water
Screenwriters: Matías Bize and Julio Rojas
Producers: Adrian Solar, Ceneca Producciones, Chile, and Nicole Gerhards, NiKo Film, Germany
Born in 1979, this director and screenwriter first attracted international attention in 2003 with his feature film debut, Sábado, una película en tiempo real. In 2005 his drama En la cama,...
The selected participants can finalize their scripts, and develop production and distribution strategies at the Residency. Mentors will advise participants on developing and revising their scripts. In a “Script to Market” seminar with market experts, the producers and directors will explore the audience potential of their works.
The selected projects will be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 10-12, 2013) and/or at the Guadalajara Ibero-American Co-production Meeting in March 2013.
Selected projects
Matías Bize, Chile: The Memory of Water
Screenwriters: Matías Bize and Julio Rojas
Producers: Adrian Solar, Ceneca Producciones, Chile, and Nicole Gerhards, NiKo Film, Germany
Born in 1979, this director and screenwriter first attracted international attention in 2003 with his feature film debut, Sábado, una película en tiempo real. In 2005 his drama En la cama,...
- 6/12/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Sunday, December 5th concludes the 5th annual Romanian Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. This year hosts The Romanian Cultural Institute and curator Mihai Chirilov added the moniker “A New Beginning,” in appreciation of the recent success of what has been dubbed the “Romanian New Wave.” This year, Cristi Puiu, arguably the one who started it all with his 2006 debut The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, returns with his second feature Aurora. The three-hour long film premiered earlier this year at the New York Film Festival to resoundingly positive reviews. Also returning from Nyff are Radu Montean’s Tuesday, After Christmas (opening May 25 at Film Forum) and Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, which opened the festival. All three were standouts this past May on the Croisette. Bobby Paunescu, producer of “Aurora” and “Lazarescu”, screens his directorial debut Francesca. Rounding out the “Romanian New Wave” roster of attendees is Razvan Radulescu,...
- 12/5/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
This weekend, December 3-5, Tribeca Cinemas is proud to host the 5th Romanian Film Festival in New York City, featuring a roster of shining stars from past and present. Hosted, as always, by The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, this year's festival is entitled A New Beginning and will feature the best and most recent films from Romania's unique and critically exalted national body of contemporary cinema. These include works from filmmakers at the forefront of the Romanian New Wave, such as Cristi Puiu, Radu Muntean and Razvan Radulescu, as well as debut features from Constantin Popescu and Bobby Paunescu. For its opening night, the festival will present the highly anticipated new work from Andrei Ujica (Videograms of a Revolution), The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu. The festival will conclude with the landmark Romanian film Carnival Scenes by filmmaker Lucian Pintilie, featuring celebrated Romanian stage and screen actor Victor Rebengiuc...
- 12/1/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Romanian cinema at 58th San Sebastian Festival will be represented by Principles of Life (Principii de viață). Constantin Popescu's sophomore feature has been selected to compete in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. The film examines the rapport between father and son, and in a nutshell is about the generation gaps and the inability to communicate. Emilian Velicanu, 43, considers his life positively full: he has money, a new villa, he is married for the second time to a young woman with whom he has a baby and has a son from his first marriage. Before the holidays arrive, he makes plans to leave his business on autopilot during his time off, but complications ensue, and this end of the day crisis makes him wonder if he's really happy and fulfilled. The screenplay for Principles of Life has had a story of its own. It failed to win at a previous edition...
- 8/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
They say you're never to old to learn a new trick, as is the case for Ozana Oancea. A graduate from The National University of Theater and Cinematography I.L. Caragiale back in 1991, Oancea waited a long time before taking on her first on screen role. First of all, Felicia is the helming debut from co-directors Razvan Radulescu and Melissa de Raaf and judging from her response in this interview, I'd say she's now got the "on screen" acting bug. - They say you're never to old to learn a new trick, as is the case for Ozana Oancea. A graduate from The National University of Theater and Cinematography I.L. Caragiale back in 1991, Oancea waited a long time before taking on her first on screen role. First of all, Felicia is the helming debut from co-directors Răzvan Rădulescu and Melissa de Raaf and judging from her response in this interview,...
- 7/8/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. - I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. Here are three items that weren't on...
- 4/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. - I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. Here are three items that weren't on...
- 4/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
A great performance by Vasluianu performing with the intense and brooding desperation that has become the hallmark of young Romanian antiheros Four years ago Romanians Cristi Puiu (writer/director) and Razvan Radulescu (writer) brought their indie sleeper .The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. to the USA. It.s grim commentary on the social manners of life and death was a hit in a nation dealing with a health care system that cared more about the bottom line than the survival of the patient. Two years ago the searing .4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. director Andrei Gruzsniczki.s tale of love, loss and acceptance further explored the social conscious of the world. Co-written by Romanians Ileana Muntean and Mircea Staiculescu .The Other...
- 12/18/2009
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Constantin Popescu is currently shooting and is close to wrapping up his feature length directorial debut with a familiar face in some award winning samples of Romanian cinema in the lead role. - Constantin Popescu is currently shooting and is close to wrapping up his feature length directorial debut with a familiar face in some award winning samples of Romanian cinema in the lead role. Written by Razvan Radulescu and Alexandru Baciu (The Paper Will Be Blue), this is a contemporary, drama set during a 24-hour period that features a father played by Vlad Ivanov who is disconnected from his family, especially from his son. Filmneweurope reports that Principles of Life has picked up a good number of grants and is being lensed by California Dreamin's Liviu Marghidan. Among the five directors who participated in Tales from the Golden Age, the omnibus project devised by Cristian Mungiu...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
First uncomfortable clip from mother/daughter drama First Of All, Felicia (Felicia inainte de toate)
There may not be a whole lot of action in this, the first clip from First of All, Felicia ("Felicia inainte de toate"), but it’s an amazingly effective three minutes which boil the film to a fine point.
Co-written and directed by noted Romanian “new wave” screenwriter Razvan Radulescu (the man behind the pen for The Death of Mister Lazarescu and Summer Holiday) and Dutch new comer Melissa de Raaf, First of All, Felicia is the intimate story of a woman and her mother spending the afternoon together at an airport, an afternoon that is bound to end in tears.
Forty year old Felicia lives with her son in Amsterdam. While he is away at summer school, Felicia takes the opportunity to visit her parents and sister in Romania. On the day of her flight home after a two week stay, her sister Iulia can’t take her to...
Co-written and directed by noted Romanian “new wave” screenwriter Razvan Radulescu (the man behind the pen for The Death of Mister Lazarescu and Summer Holiday) and Dutch new comer Melissa de Raaf, First of All, Felicia is the intimate story of a woman and her mother spending the afternoon together at an airport, an afternoon that is bound to end in tears.
Forty year old Felicia lives with her son in Amsterdam. While he is away at summer school, Felicia takes the opportunity to visit her parents and sister in Romania. On the day of her flight home after a two week stay, her sister Iulia can’t take her to...
- 12/11/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Thessaloniki has so much to offer and between meetings and screenings, plus my current work with the Berlinale's European Film Market, there is little time to explore the environs, like, Mount Olympus and the newly excavated perfectly preserved gravesite of Philip, the father Alexander the Great and Alexander's son Alexander IV, killed before reaching the age to become king. Truly and literally classic!
Thessaloniki is situated between east (as in The Byzantine) and west Europe, at the edge of the Balkans. Aside from the market itself called Agora and organized by Margarita Eliopoulou, three sections are designed to take advantage of its geographically unique location: the Balkans, South Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
• Salonica Studio/ Four Corners, the Tiff Student Workshop - My partner Peter Belsito is busy coaching the Thessaloniki film school students in pitching and entering the world('s) markets. Thessaloniki has the largest student population in Greece.
Thessaloniki is situated between east (as in The Byzantine) and west Europe, at the edge of the Balkans. Aside from the market itself called Agora and organized by Margarita Eliopoulou, three sections are designed to take advantage of its geographically unique location: the Balkans, South Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
• Salonica Studio/ Four Corners, the Tiff Student Workshop - My partner Peter Belsito is busy coaching the Thessaloniki film school students in pitching and entering the world('s) markets. Thessaloniki has the largest student population in Greece.
- 11/24/2009
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Ten American and international filmmakers have been chosen to participate in AFI Project 20/20, following screenings of their films at AFI Fest 2009.
The cultural exchange program is supported by the AFI in conjunction with the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The 2010 participants are:
“Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo,” directed by Jessica Oreck (Us)
“First of All, Felicia,” co-directed by Melissa de Raaf and Razvan Radulescu (Romania)
“Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” directed by Damien Chazelle (Us)
“Icons Among us,” co-directed by Lars Larson, Michael Rivoira and Peter Vogt (Us)
“London River,” directed by Rachid Bouchareb (France)
“Room and a Half,” directed by Andry Khrzhanovsky (Russia)
“Sita Sings the Blues,” directed by Nina Paley (Us)
They will join two artists from the 2009 program: Kief Davidson (“Kassam the...
The cultural exchange program is supported by the AFI in conjunction with the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The 2010 participants are:
“Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo,” directed by Jessica Oreck (Us)
“First of All, Felicia,” co-directed by Melissa de Raaf and Razvan Radulescu (Romania)
“Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” directed by Damien Chazelle (Us)
“Icons Among us,” co-directed by Lars Larson, Michael Rivoira and Peter Vogt (Us)
“London River,” directed by Rachid Bouchareb (France)
“Room and a Half,” directed by Andry Khrzhanovsky (Russia)
“Sita Sings the Blues,” directed by Nina Paley (Us)
They will join two artists from the 2009 program: Kief Davidson (“Kassam the...
- 10/29/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Radu Muntean's Cannes entry Boogie, saw popular Romanian actor Dragos Bucur take on the role of the husband who after a a quarrel with the wife, hooks up with some old buddies and loses focus for an evening. Variety reports that Muntean's next feature will touch upon similar themes of guilt and “choices”. Scripted by Muntean, Alexandru Baciu and Razvan Radulescu, Tuesday, After Christmas will start shooting in November (they probably need some snow). Set one week before Christmas, "Tuesday" focuses on marital crisis -- that of Paul and Adriana, who've been married for 10 years and have an 8-year-old daughter. Paul decides to leave his wife for his mistress. He informs his wife, who gives him until the Tuesday after Christmas to tell his daughter.. Currently, Bucur is working on Peter Weir's The Way Back, but by all logic should take the lead role....
- 7/9/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris -- Arte France is bringing its co-production savvy across borders with three new international films from Lars von Trier, Angelo Cianci and Razvan Radulescu, the Franco-German pay TV group said Tuesday.
Von Trier will try his luck at the horror flick genre with "Anti-Christ," about a couple in an isolated cabin whose son disappears. The Slot Machine, Zentropa and Arte/Zdf co-production will film in August and September in Germany.
In Radulescu's "Felicia plus que tout," co-directed by Melissa de Raaf, actress Ozana Oancea plays a young Romanian immigrant in the Netherlands dealing with family-related drama. "Felicia" will shoot in September and October in Bucarest.
Cianci's first film, "Ici," produced by Tu vas voir and father-son team Peter and Mathieu Kassovitz, is the story of an Maghreb family living in a rough Paris suburb subject to a hostage takeover which turns to absurd comedy.
Von Trier will try his luck at the horror flick genre with "Anti-Christ," about a couple in an isolated cabin whose son disappears. The Slot Machine, Zentropa and Arte/Zdf co-production will film in August and September in Germany.
In Radulescu's "Felicia plus que tout," co-directed by Melissa de Raaf, actress Ozana Oancea plays a young Romanian immigrant in the Netherlands dealing with family-related drama. "Felicia" will shoot in September and October in Bucarest.
Cianci's first film, "Ici," produced by Tu vas voir and father-son team Peter and Mathieu Kassovitz, is the story of an Maghreb family living in a rough Paris suburb subject to a hostage takeover which turns to absurd comedy.
- 7/8/2008
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- The very young, and so far, extremely successful Cannes Atelier program (now in its 4th year) has announced the 15 projects as part of the 2008 curriculum that basically invites directors and their producers to pitch their projects, find financing and/or find distribution to world investors in film the film festival dates. This year's batch includes plenty of first time film projects from short film directors who've canvased the festival circuit but the list also two familiar names with the 6th film project from Lou Ye's (Summer Palace) and the sophomore feature (Lucky Life) from Lee Isaac Chung - perhaps 2007's best new director with Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) making waves on the circuit. Here are the selected projects: Australia – Cure For Serpents by Ben Hackworth (2nd feature film)China – Bitch by Lou Ye (6th feature film)Colombia – The Stoplight Society by Ruben Mendoza (1st feature film)Estonia – One More Croissant
- 3/31/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes has selected 15 projects from 14 countries for the fourth installment of the Cinefondation's Atelier program, organizers said Monday.
Launched in 2005, the Atelier was created to aid both established directors and rising-star filmmakers with the financing and completion of their upcoming projects. The Cinefondation's Atelier -- or "workshop" in English -- allows the selected filmmakers to spend eight days networking at the world's biggest international film event of the year.
From May 16-23, the chosen directors and their respective producers will schmooze along the Croisette and meet with market attendees.
This year's eclectic mix of international filmmakers include U.S. first-time feature helmer Braden King ("Here"), Lee Isaac Chung ("Lucky Life") and Arvin Chen (Taiwanese co-production "First Page Taipei").
Other first-time helmers chosen include French director Lea Fehner ("Qu'un seul tienne, et les autres suivront"), Colombia's Ruben Mendoza ("The Stoplight Society"), Israeli Nadav Lapid ("The Policeman"), Romanians Razvan Radulescu and Melissa De Raaf ("First of All, Felicia"), Somali helmer Abdi Ismael Jama ("Queleh") and Vietnam's Phang Dang Di ("Bi, Don't Be Afraid").
More experienced filmmakers include China's Lou Ye, selected for his sixth feature film, "Bitch"; Hungarian Benedek Fliegauf, on hand with his third feature, "Womb"; and Oleg Novkovic, who brings his fourth effort, "White, White World". Second-time helmers are Uruguay's Juan Pittaluga, with "Punta del Este", and Estonian Ilmar Raag, with "One More Croissant".
Launched in 2005, the Atelier was created to aid both established directors and rising-star filmmakers with the financing and completion of their upcoming projects. The Cinefondation's Atelier -- or "workshop" in English -- allows the selected filmmakers to spend eight days networking at the world's biggest international film event of the year.
From May 16-23, the chosen directors and their respective producers will schmooze along the Croisette and meet with market attendees.
This year's eclectic mix of international filmmakers include U.S. first-time feature helmer Braden King ("Here"), Lee Isaac Chung ("Lucky Life") and Arvin Chen (Taiwanese co-production "First Page Taipei").
Other first-time helmers chosen include French director Lea Fehner ("Qu'un seul tienne, et les autres suivront"), Colombia's Ruben Mendoza ("The Stoplight Society"), Israeli Nadav Lapid ("The Policeman"), Romanians Razvan Radulescu and Melissa De Raaf ("First of All, Felicia"), Somali helmer Abdi Ismael Jama ("Queleh") and Vietnam's Phang Dang Di ("Bi, Don't Be Afraid").
More experienced filmmakers include China's Lou Ye, selected for his sixth feature film, "Bitch"; Hungarian Benedek Fliegauf, on hand with his third feature, "Womb"; and Oleg Novkovic, who brings his fourth effort, "White, White World". Second-time helmers are Uruguay's Juan Pittaluga, with "Punta del Este", and Estonian Ilmar Raag, with "One More Croissant".
- 3/31/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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