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Program
Focus Romania |
Thursday 8th April, 2010 /10.30 pm
Maison de l'Europe
Paris
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In collaboration with Institut Culturel Roumain, Paris
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Oli’s Wedding |
Nunta lui oli |
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Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Roumanie
2009 | 35 mm | 0:22:00
Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in the USA. Dorel is going to watch the wedding through a webcam toghether with two of his son’s friends. On the small display they are going to meet the bride, her father and will witness the ceremony. A bitter-sweet story about scattered families and lonely parents.
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Tarantyno |
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Mircea Nestor
Roumanie
2009 | HD | 00:17:00
Unsuccessful in his attempts to charm an attractive girl and spurned by an irritating and dominant older brother, the eponymous anti-hero decides to take what he wants, with devastating results. Marcea’s answers shed light on his brutally comic story about a ‘brutally’ lacking young man.
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The Palm Lines |
Palmele |
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George Chiper
Roumanie
2009 | 35 mm | 0:17:00
A terrible accident takes away her family in a blink of an eye. Years later, exposed to the video cameras, she tries to remember the events that would change her life to a senseless routine. The story of a day, like any other, from the life of a lonesome woman, spent within questions with no answers.
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Renovation |
Renovare |
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Paul Negoescu
Allemagne, Roumanie
2009 | 35 mm | 0:25:00
The grandmother buys a watermelon. She wants to help her daughter, who has other things on her mind. She has to organise the renovation of her apartment. She has asked her son for help. The son has other things on his mind. His studies. His girlfriend wants to spend some time with him. In the end, the son visits the grandmother and the melon finds its way outside.
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Just another day |
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Paul Sorin Damian
Roumanie
2009 | 16 mm | 0:05:20
A suicide attempt ends when a roof window is opened. I was inspired by a happening on the roof of my building.
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The Long Way Home |
Lungui Drum Spre Casa |
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Anamaria Chioveanu
Roumanie
2008 | 35mm | 0:20:20
It’s late at night in one of Bucharest’s ill-famed neighborhoods. Diana is waiting for the last bus. But the bus is not coming any more and she doesn’t have enough money to take a cab. So she decides to head home on foot. But this turns out to be more than just a regular walk.
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March 29th - April 11th 2010
We present film series focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes..
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