Exclusive: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights to Romanian actor and director Emanuel Parvu’s thriller Three Kilometers To The End Of The World.
The feature was among three films added to the Competition line-up of the Cannes Film Festival on Monday as it announced 13 new titles in the Official Selection for its 77th edition, running from May 14 to 25.
The thriller revolves around a 17-year-old young man who is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta wetlands region in Romania.
One night he is brutally attacked on the street and the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
The cast features newcomer Ciprian Chiujdea as the protagonist alongside Bogdan Dumitrache and Laura Vasiliu.
Memento Distribution has acquired French rights for the drama.
The feature was among three films added to the Competition line-up of the Cannes Film Festival on Monday as it announced 13 new titles in the Official Selection for its 77th edition, running from May 14 to 25.
The thriller revolves around a 17-year-old young man who is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta wetlands region in Romania.
One night he is brutally attacked on the street and the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
The cast features newcomer Ciprian Chiujdea as the protagonist alongside Bogdan Dumitrache and Laura Vasiliu.
Memento Distribution has acquired French rights for the drama.
- 4/23/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Today we’ve got a baker’s dozen thirteen added to the Cannes 2024 edition. We learned beforehand that Mohammad Rasoulof and Michel Hazanavicius we competition entries and one more title trickled in from Romanian actor/director Emanuel Parvu and his Trois kilomètres jusqu’à la fin du monde — a drama featuring Bogdan Dumitrache, Laura Vasiliu and Ciprian Chiujdea. This tells the story of Adi, a teenager from a village in the Danube Delta, who, through the efforts of his parents, studies in Tulcea. When the parents are confronted with a truth they are unable to understand, the unconditional love he should receive from them suddenly disappears, and Adi is left with only one solution.…...
- 4/22/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has picked up “Woodland” (“Wald”), written and directed by Elisabeth Scharang, which has its world premiere in the Centrepiece section at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film’s trailer has also just been launched.
Picture Tree Intl. also handled world sales on Scharang’s sophomore feature film, “Jack,” which also played at Toronto.
“Woodland” is inspired by the novel “Wald” from bestselling author Doris Knecht, and the personal experience of Scharang, who witnessed the attack of a terrorist shooter in Vienna in 2020 in which four people were killed and 23 others were injured. The film marks Scharang’s second collaboration with Dop Jörg Widmer, who is a frequent collaborator with Terrence Malick.
Brigitte Hobmeier as Marian Malin in “Woodland”
In “Woodland,” Marian Malin (Brigitte Hobmeier) has everything she could wish for — a passion, a job and love — until she and her husband (Bogdan Dumitrache...
Picture Tree Intl. also handled world sales on Scharang’s sophomore feature film, “Jack,” which also played at Toronto.
“Woodland” is inspired by the novel “Wald” from bestselling author Doris Knecht, and the personal experience of Scharang, who witnessed the attack of a terrorist shooter in Vienna in 2020 in which four people were killed and 23 others were injured. The film marks Scharang’s second collaboration with Dop Jörg Widmer, who is a frequent collaborator with Terrence Malick.
Brigitte Hobmeier as Marian Malin in “Woodland”
In “Woodland,” Marian Malin (Brigitte Hobmeier) has everything she could wish for — a passion, a job and love — until she and her husband (Bogdan Dumitrache...
- 8/10/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Slate includes Nicolás Herzog’s Elda and the Monsters and Radu Potcoavă Good Guys Go to Heaven.
Italian sales agent The Open Reel is bringing a slate of new films to Cannes market, including Damien Manivel’s The Island.
The Island centres on a group of friends and the events that take place in the last party of the summer. It is produced by Mld Films and stars Damoh Ikhetah and Olga Milshtein.
Manivel’s most recent film Magdala world premiered in Cannes’ Acid section last year. Isadora’s Children (2019) won him the best director prize at Locarno.
The Open...
Italian sales agent The Open Reel is bringing a slate of new films to Cannes market, including Damien Manivel’s The Island.
The Island centres on a group of friends and the events that take place in the last party of the summer. It is produced by Mld Films and stars Damoh Ikhetah and Olga Milshtein.
Manivel’s most recent film Magdala world premiered in Cannes’ Acid section last year. Isadora’s Children (2019) won him the best director prize at Locarno.
The Open...
- 5/15/2023
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
Hungarian director András Fésős is in post-production with his sophomore feature “Rise Up and Walk,” starring Romania’s Bogdan Dumitrache, who won best actor prizes at Locarno with “Best Intentions” and San Sebastian with “Pororoca,” Film New Europe reports.
The film tells the story of a father and son’s difficult reunion, and involves several spectacular firefighter rescues.
Sándor Félix becomes the guardian angel of those who want to end their lives. However, not everyone in town is enthusiastic about his selfless work. After the death of his mother, Félix’s son Kristóf became estranged from his father. He makes videos of depressed people, who have given up hope.
“Beyond the fact that it looks into the depths of the human soul and dissects such a difficult subject as suicide, the film tells a life-affirming story about our times which is intended for a wide audience. From the beginning, I...
The film tells the story of a father and son’s difficult reunion, and involves several spectacular firefighter rescues.
Sándor Félix becomes the guardian angel of those who want to end their lives. However, not everyone in town is enthusiastic about his selfless work. After the death of his mother, Félix’s son Kristóf became estranged from his father. He makes videos of depressed people, who have given up hope.
“Beyond the fact that it looks into the depths of the human soul and dissects such a difficult subject as suicide, the film tells a life-affirming story about our times which is intended for a wide audience. From the beginning, I...
- 7/15/2022
- by Denes Varga
- Variety Film + TV
The film centres on a director working on an autobiographical feature about the death of his daughter. Following Adalbert’s Dream (2011) and The Last Day (2016), Romanian director Gabriel Achim is currently in late post-production with his third feature, Snowing Darkness. The exclusively Romanian project is being produced by Anca Puiu through Mandragora and co-produced by Iadasarecasa. The screenplay, written by Achim and Cosmin Manolache, follows Teo (Bogdan Dumitrache), a director who is immersed in rehearsals for his new feature centring on the personal turmoil he has suffered, caused by the death of his daughter. As the main story unfolds, strange and unsettling frame stories arise, which teeter between fiction and real life. The more the performance tries to disguise real life, the more it is disrupted by life’s unpredictable course, prompting a series of ambiguous, unbearable and absurd events. A low-budget production, Snowing Darkness is being made with circa.
Cecília Felméri's assured debut begins with a camera travelling across the reflection of a Hungarian fishing lake - at once a familiar scene and yet dislocated by the perspective, ideas that will resonate throughout this psychological drama that finds strength in subtlety. This is a place where the idyllic meets the isolated, as Bence and his partner Janka (Diána Magdolna Kiss) try to get the place he has inherited from his father back on its feet, despite the fact that fish are mysteriously dying - the vague sense of unease in the film's opening moments underlined by one or two fish corpses drifting by.
Although there's a bond, the click of connection sparked by watching your lover messily eating a tomato or the right glance on a lazy afternoon, there's also a spikiness to a relationship that sees Bence...
Although there's a bond, the click of connection sparked by watching your lover messily eating a tomato or the right glance on a lazy afternoon, there's also a spikiness to a relationship that sees Bence...
- 10/17/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The film focuses on a man working abroad who has a good reason to return home during the pandemic. Romanian director Ştefan Constantinescu has started shooting his first feature Man and Dog, a drama whose screenplay accommodates topics related to the pandemic. The film is being staged by microFILM, represented by Ada Solomon and Diana Păroiu, with Klas Film, Doppelganger, and Pandora Filmproduktion serving as co-production companies. The screenplay, written by Andrei Epure, Constantinescu and Andersson, centers on Doru (Bogdan Dumitrache), a 42-year-old Romanian who works in Sweden. In the midst of the pandemic and as various countries hurry to close their borders, he returns to his hometown of Constanţa as he suspects his wife Nicoleta (Ofelia Popii) is having an affair. Accompanied by his mother's dog, Doru starts shadowing his wife, trying to uncover the circumstances of...
Heidi
A prominent member of the Romanian New Wave, Catalin Mitulescu’s fourth feature will be Heidi, which he self-produced through Strada Film. In development since 2014, production took place back in April (see some excerpts of the production here). Mitulescu reunites with Dp Marius Panduru, who lensed his first two features. The project stars Gheorghe Visu, Catalina Mihai, Florin Zamfirescu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Alex Conovaru and Octav Costin. Mitulescu won the Palme d’Or for his 2004 short film Traffic, while his 2006 film The Way I Spent the End of the World and 2011’s Loverboy premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes.…...
A prominent member of the Romanian New Wave, Catalin Mitulescu’s fourth feature will be Heidi, which he self-produced through Strada Film. In development since 2014, production took place back in April (see some excerpts of the production here). Mitulescu reunites with Dp Marius Panduru, who lensed his first two features. The project stars Gheorghe Visu, Catalina Mihai, Florin Zamfirescu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Alex Conovaru and Octav Costin. Mitulescu won the Palme d’Or for his 2004 short film Traffic, while his 2006 film The Way I Spent the End of the World and 2011’s Loverboy premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes.…...
- 1/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Pushing into international acquisitions, Bilbao-based distributor Barton Films has picked up Spanish distribution rights to three films playing at the 66th San Sebastian Festival’s New Directors sidebar.
Barton’s most recent international-title release slate is headed by “The Third Wife,” the feature debut by New York and Vietnam-based Ash Mayfair, which recently won the Netpac award at the Toronto Film Festival.
A second buy, “A Decent Man,” by Romanian Hadrian Marcu, highlighted at the first edition of San Sebastian’s Glocal in Progress showcase in 2017, toplines Bogdan Dumitrache, winner last year of a San Sebastian Silver Shell for best actor for Constantin Popescu’s “Pororoca,” another Barton Films pickup.
Ismet Sijarina’s “Cold November,” a Kosovo-Albania-Republic of Macedonia co-production world premiering at New Directors, is a family drama based on real events in the turbulent times after Yugoslavia abolishes Kosovan autonomous institutions in 1990.
“Increasing the volume of independent international movies acquisitions,...
Barton’s most recent international-title release slate is headed by “The Third Wife,” the feature debut by New York and Vietnam-based Ash Mayfair, which recently won the Netpac award at the Toronto Film Festival.
A second buy, “A Decent Man,” by Romanian Hadrian Marcu, highlighted at the first edition of San Sebastian’s Glocal in Progress showcase in 2017, toplines Bogdan Dumitrache, winner last year of a San Sebastian Silver Shell for best actor for Constantin Popescu’s “Pororoca,” another Barton Films pickup.
Ismet Sijarina’s “Cold November,” a Kosovo-Albania-Republic of Macedonia co-production world premiering at New Directors, is a family drama based on real events in the turbulent times after Yugoslavia abolishes Kosovan autonomous institutions in 1990.
“Increasing the volume of independent international movies acquisitions,...
- 9/21/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Barcelona— Tasos Gerakinis’ “A Simple Man,” Pelin Esmer’s “Queen Lear” and Ignas Jonynas’ “Invisible” compose the pix-in-post selection for the upcoming Glocal in Progress sidebar at September’s San Sebastián Film Festival.
Greek director Tasos Gerakinis will attend with his feature debut, a Greece-France co-production following a convict who flees prison and manages to arrive in the neighbor country where he holds up at a farm, taking a winegrower hostage. The relationship between the winegrower, his daughter and the convict will evolve in divergent directions.
Turkish director Pelin Esmer has previously participated in San Sebastián’s main competition with “10 to 11,” a Special Jury Prize winner in Istanbul festival in 2009. She was also part of the Zabaltegi-New Directors section with her feature debut “The Play,” turning on three women aiming to stage a play in a small village. That feature earned kudos at Tribeca in 2006. “Queen Lear” is a follow-up to “The Play,...
Greek director Tasos Gerakinis will attend with his feature debut, a Greece-France co-production following a convict who flees prison and manages to arrive in the neighbor country where he holds up at a farm, taking a winegrower hostage. The relationship between the winegrower, his daughter and the convict will evolve in divergent directions.
Turkish director Pelin Esmer has previously participated in San Sebastián’s main competition with “10 to 11,” a Special Jury Prize winner in Istanbul festival in 2009. She was also part of the Zabaltegi-New Directors section with her feature debut “The Play,” turning on three women aiming to stage a play in a small village. That feature earned kudos at Tribeca in 2006. “Queen Lear” is a follow-up to “The Play,...
- 8/13/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Durban — “The Reports on Sarah and Saleem,” directed by Muayad Alayan, scooped best picture at the 39th Durban Intl. Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday night with an award ceremony at the Suncoast Cine Center complex.
The film tells the story of the political ramifications of an extra-marital affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman. Variety described it as a “taut psychosocial drama.”
In a pre-recorded message from Jerusalem, Alayan offered thanks to the audience in South Africa – a country, he said, “which we as Palestinians hold in a very special place in our hearts” – while dedicating the award to “all the filmmakers out there in this world who are fighting all forms of injustice with their films and their art.”
The award punctuated a Diff whose 2018 edition “had a very special focus on hearing and seeing the marginal voices, with a focus on celebrating diversity,” according to Lliane Loots,...
The film tells the story of the political ramifications of an extra-marital affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman. Variety described it as a “taut psychosocial drama.”
In a pre-recorded message from Jerusalem, Alayan offered thanks to the audience in South Africa – a country, he said, “which we as Palestinians hold in a very special place in our hearts” – while dedicating the award to “all the filmmakers out there in this world who are fighting all forms of injustice with their films and their art.”
The award punctuated a Diff whose 2018 edition “had a very special focus on hearing and seeing the marginal voices, with a focus on celebrating diversity,” according to Lliane Loots,...
- 7/29/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Best foreign-language film Oscar nominee Loveless, helmed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, was named best movie Saturday at the new East-West: The Golden Arch Awards, recognizing films from 32 countries in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and Mikhail Krichman, the film's director of photography, received best cinematography honors at the Moscow ceremony.
Bogdan Dumitrache was named best actor for his role in the France-Romania co-production Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu, while Darya Zhovner took home best actress honors for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's Closeness.
The best screenplay prize was shared by Ildikó Enyedi, writer-director...
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and Mikhail Krichman, the film's director of photography, received best cinematography honors at the Moscow ceremony.
Bogdan Dumitrache was named best actor for his role in the France-Romania co-production Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu, while Darya Zhovner took home best actress honors for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's Closeness.
The best screenplay prize was shared by Ildikó Enyedi, writer-director...
- 4/14/2018
- by Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Best foreign-language film <em>Oscar nominee, Loveless </em>by Andrei Zvyagintsev, was named best movie at the new East-West: The Golden Arch awards, recognizing films from 32 countries in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and the film's Dop Mikhail Krichman was awarded for the best cinematography at the Moscow ceremony today (April 14).
Romanian actor Bogdan Dumitrache won best actor for his role in the French-Romanian co-production <em>Pororoca</em>, directed by Constantin Popescu. Darya Zhovner received the best actress award for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's <em>Closeness</em>.
The best screenplay award was shared by Ildikó...
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and the film's Dop Mikhail Krichman was awarded for the best cinematography at the Moscow ceremony today (April 14).
Romanian actor Bogdan Dumitrache won best actor for his role in the French-Romanian co-production <em>Pororoca</em>, directed by Constantin Popescu. Darya Zhovner received the best actress award for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's <em>Closeness</em>.
The best screenplay award was shared by Ildikó...
- 4/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Constantin Popescu’s drama sells to France.
Wide Management has sealed a first pre-sale on Romanian director Constantin Popescu’s missing child family drama Pororoca to Paris-based distributor New Story.
Bogdan Dumitrache, whose recent credits include Sieranevada, plays a happily married accountant who loses his young daughter during a routine trip to the park.
“For plausibility, the script was reviewed by psychologists and Bogdan prepared his role with psychologists to understand fully the state of mind of his character,” said Wide Management sales chief Diane Ferrandez.
“We’re very happy for New Story to be venturing off the beaten path by committing to the film on a yet to be finalised cut,” she added.
Other titles on Wide Management’s Cannes slate include Once Upon A Time In November, Euthanizer and Bulgarian director Petar Valchanov’s upcoming The Father, which is prompting buying interest on the back of his last film The Lesson.
Wide Management has sealed a first pre-sale on Romanian director Constantin Popescu’s missing child family drama Pororoca to Paris-based distributor New Story.
Bogdan Dumitrache, whose recent credits include Sieranevada, plays a happily married accountant who loses his young daughter during a routine trip to the park.
“For plausibility, the script was reviewed by psychologists and Bogdan prepared his role with psychologists to understand fully the state of mind of his character,” said Wide Management sales chief Diane Ferrandez.
“We’re very happy for New Story to be venturing off the beaten path by committing to the film on a yet to be finalised cut,” she added.
Other titles on Wide Management’s Cannes slate include Once Upon A Time In November, Euthanizer and Bulgarian director Petar Valchanov’s upcoming The Father, which is prompting buying interest on the back of his last film The Lesson.
- 5/18/2017
- ScreenDaily
For this critic’s money, of the several excellent filmmakers to emerge from the Romanian New Wave, Cristi Puiu ranks as the most formidable. After kicking off his career in 2001 with the outstanding Stuff and Dough, a small-scale but expertly modulated road/drug-deal movie, Puiu made two bona fide masterpieces back to back: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and Aurora. While his newest dramatic feature, Sieranevada, may fall just short of M-word classification by not reaching the same level of radical invention as its two predecessors, it is nonetheless another proud entry in Puiu’s stellar filmography.
Unlike Aurora, which was largely made up of silences, observing its solitary everyman protagonist as he wandered around before and after committing a quadruple murder, the dialogue in Sieranevada rushes forth in a stupefying torrent that begins as soon as the opening credits finish and is sustained almost without cease until the film’s closing image.
Unlike Aurora, which was largely made up of silences, observing its solitary everyman protagonist as he wandered around before and after committing a quadruple murder, the dialogue in Sieranevada rushes forth in a stupefying torrent that begins as soon as the opening credits finish and is sustained almost without cease until the film’s closing image.
- 5/12/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
The Fixer among five projects selected for the CineLink Work in Progress sessions.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) has unveiled five projects selected for this year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions - an industry preview of upcoming films from Southeast Europe.
The presentations are open for invited guests who may engage in the projects completion or distribution, and will run Aug 19-20.
Scheduled to attend are representatives from Wild Bunch, The Match Factory, Pyramide, Memento, Fortissimo as well as the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals.
The 2015 project line-up consists of three fiction projects, one animation and one documentary, selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
They include The Fixer (Fixeur) from Adrian Sitaru, the Romanian filmmaker who won best director at Locarno in 2011 with Best Intentions and the Daad Short Film Award at the 2010 Berlinale with The Cage (Colivia).
The Fixer is inspired by true events and centres on a young...
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 14-22) has unveiled five projects selected for this year’s CineLink Work in Progress sessions - an industry preview of upcoming films from Southeast Europe.
The presentations are open for invited guests who may engage in the projects completion or distribution, and will run Aug 19-20.
Scheduled to attend are representatives from Wild Bunch, The Match Factory, Pyramide, Memento, Fortissimo as well as the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals.
The 2015 project line-up consists of three fiction projects, one animation and one documentary, selected from the festival’s documentary workshop Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
They include The Fixer (Fixeur) from Adrian Sitaru, the Romanian filmmaker who won best director at Locarno in 2011 with Best Intentions and the Daad Short Film Award at the 2010 Berlinale with The Cage (Colivia).
The Fixer is inspired by true events and centres on a young...
- 8/11/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – Parents often feel responsible for their child’s reprehensible actions or despicable behavior. They may feel it reflects poorly on their own character and will go out of their way to fix a situation, make it all better. Certainly not all parents, but definitely the mother we meet in “Child’s Pose,” a Romanian film from last year that is finally getting released here in the States.
It’s a fascinating film centered on a controlling and manipulative mother who will confound audiences with her own questionable behavior and blunt demeanor, leaving them to ponder whether or not her concern and emotional responses are genuine or come from a place of self-preservation.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
We meet the sixty something Cornelia (Luminita Gheoeghiu) at her birthday party, surrounded by her husband and a collection of Eastern European bourgeoisie. We learn this affluent woman is a successful theatrical set designer and architect...
It’s a fascinating film centered on a controlling and manipulative mother who will confound audiences with her own questionable behavior and blunt demeanor, leaving them to ponder whether or not her concern and emotional responses are genuine or come from a place of self-preservation.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
We meet the sixty something Cornelia (Luminita Gheoeghiu) at her birthday party, surrounded by her husband and a collection of Eastern European bourgeoisie. We learn this affluent woman is a successful theatrical set designer and architect...
- 4/27/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu is just one of the many major talents to come out of the Romanian New Wave, and his gifts for minimalism and droll comedy served him well on his Camera D'Or-winning debut "12:08 East of Bucharest" and his Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winning follow-up "Police, Adjective." Porumboiu returns with "When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism," and if the trailer is any indication, he has another winner on his hands. The film stars Bogdan Dumitrache as a filmmaker suffering from a crisis of faith (as well as an imaginary medical condition). He's having an affair with the lead of his new film (Diana Avramut), and he has only a few weeks left to finish his new film. The trailer references Michelangelo Antonioni both visually and verbally, but it showcases Porumboiu's sense of humor as well. Indiewire's critic was a bit more mixed on it than some when it played at Locarno,...
- 4/24/2014
- by Max O'Connell
- Indiewire
It would seem that the new wave of Romanian cinema is already circling back in on itself. With films like "The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu," "12:08 East of Bucharest," "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," "Child's Pose" and "Beyond The Hills" highlight the new filmmaking voices emerging from the nation, one director is turn a camera back on that entire scene. "Police, Adjective" director Corneliu Porumboiu has returned with "When Evening Falls On Bucharest Or Metabolism" and it promises a look at the process of making movies from a unique perspective. Starring Bogdan Dumitrache and Diana Avramut, the story follows a director of some renown, who is suffering from an imaginary medical condition, a real crisis of faith and is plagued with doubt. He has two weeks left to shoot his latest opus, but he's uncertain, and from an affair with his lead actress to the films Michelangelo Antonioni, he's not quite...
- 4/24/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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
From Hitchcock's "Psycho" to Siegel and McGehee's "The Deep End," cinema loves its messed up mother-son relationships. But rarely are they handled with the mastery of Calin Peter Netzer's tale of smotherly love "Child's Pose," Romania's 2014 Oscar entry and also one of the country's strongest films in a surprising, prosperous New Wave of films by Cristian Mungiu and Cristi Puiu. Add Netzer to that list. Luminita Gheorghiu plays Cornelia, a wealthy, weathered, swilling matriarch who manipulates her entire family. Especially her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) who, after a hit-and-run, is about to undergo criminal prosecution for the manslaughter of a child. All wringing hands and cold calculation, Gheorghiu's is the sort of iconic performance that would get more plaudits if this weren't such a crowded year of other iconic performances. She has worked with Puiu and Mungiu before, as well as Michael Haneke, and once again slips into the...
- 2/18/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Winner of a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and Romania's official entry for Best Foreign Language Film for this year's Oscar, Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose is a riveting family drama spiked with some sharp social commentary that is inherent in the Romanian New Wave. Veteran Romanian actress Luminita Gheorghiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, The Death of Mr. Lazarescue) gives a remarkable performance as Neli (Cornelia), a well-connected Romanian upper-class professional whose resolve as a mother of a deadbeat son, Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) gets tested.The film opens with Neli's extravagant birthday dinner with many important government officials attending. She tells her sister that Barbu is not only not showing up for the party, but told her to 'go suck a cock,'...
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- 2/18/2014
- Screen Anarchy
★★★★★A worthy winner of Berlin's Golden Bear and a strong contender for Best Foreign Language Film at next year's Academy Awards, Child's Pose (2013) provides a fascinating insight into Romania's affluent society and ubiquitous corruption. Calin Peter Netzer focuses on one middle-class family and the troubled relationship of a domineering mother Cornelia and her privileged son Barbu. The film opens with Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu) chain-smoking and bemoaning the lack of contact with Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache). She's about to hit sixty and he - for reason's unknown - is refusing to attend his mother's birthday celebration.
- 12/16/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
To mark the release of Child’s Pose on DVD 16th December, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away.
Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Child’S Pose is a touching film about how we can suffocate our children with maternal love, and on the marks that parents leave on their offspring’s personalities. Written and directed by Calin Peter Netzer, the film is also a portrayal of contemporary high-class Romania, and the low-level corruption and trading of influence within the core social institutions. The film stars Luminita Gheorghiu (The Death of Mr Lazarescu), Bogdan Dumitrache (Traffic), Ilinca Goia and Nataşa Raab (Amen).
Cornelia (Gheorghiu), an elegant and well-connected woman at the pinnacle of society, hides a dark secret. She has an estranged son, Barbu (Dumitrache), who seems determined to keep his life as private as possible. Far from the prying eyes of his aristocratic mother,...
Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Child’S Pose is a touching film about how we can suffocate our children with maternal love, and on the marks that parents leave on their offspring’s personalities. Written and directed by Calin Peter Netzer, the film is also a portrayal of contemporary high-class Romania, and the low-level corruption and trading of influence within the core social institutions. The film stars Luminita Gheorghiu (The Death of Mr Lazarescu), Bogdan Dumitrache (Traffic), Ilinca Goia and Nataşa Raab (Amen).
Cornelia (Gheorghiu), an elegant and well-connected woman at the pinnacle of society, hides a dark secret. She has an estranged son, Barbu (Dumitrache), who seems determined to keep his life as private as possible. Far from the prying eyes of his aristocratic mother,...
- 12/13/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Short Term 12 | Philomena | Thor: The Dark World | Milius | Gloria | Nosferatu The Vampyre | Drinking Buddies | Cutie And The Boxer | Child's Pose | The Nun | The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia | A Nightmare On Elm Stret
Short Term 12 (15)
(Destin Cretton, 2013, Us) Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr, Kaitlyn Dever, Keith Stanfield, Rami Malek. 97 mins
A film that makes you care about people who care about people, this compact indie doesn't have to look hard for drama in a foster care home, whose young workers need help as much as the damaged teens in their charge. The storylines are a little convenient, but it's an emotional watch, and Larson is outstanding.
Philomena (12A)
(Stephen Frears, 2013, UK/Us/Fra) Judi Dench, Steve Coogan. 98 mins
Faith issues, "human interest" and even buddy comedy blend smoothly in this true-life tale of a retired Irish woman's search for her adult son, aided by a sceptical English hack.
Short Term 12 (15)
(Destin Cretton, 2013, Us) Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr, Kaitlyn Dever, Keith Stanfield, Rami Malek. 97 mins
A film that makes you care about people who care about people, this compact indie doesn't have to look hard for drama in a foster care home, whose young workers need help as much as the damaged teens in their charge. The storylines are a little convenient, but it's an emotional watch, and Larson is outstanding.
Philomena (12A)
(Stephen Frears, 2013, UK/Us/Fra) Judi Dench, Steve Coogan. 98 mins
Faith issues, "human interest" and even buddy comedy blend smoothly in this true-life tale of a retired Irish woman's search for her adult son, aided by a sceptical English hack.
- 11/2/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Calin Peter Netzer's challenging and intelligent family drama explores the dark side of bureaucracy and corruption
Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose is a gripping new drama from Romania and another demonstration of how that country's new wave is developing a distinctive kind of real-time slice-of-life cinema with characterisation in extreme, pitiless closeup. It's able to open up brilliantly crafted incidental insights into post-Ceaușescu society, and like Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective and Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr Lazarescu, this film has some exquisitely horrible glimpses into bureaucracy and corruption. The story's premise is a noir standard: a wealthy and overbearing mother, Cornelia (Luminița Gheorghiu) has a stormy relationship with her spoilt grownup son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache). When he gets into some serious trouble, his mum has to step in and square things with a word here and a payoff there. Vlad Ivanov – renowned for his chilling...
Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose is a gripping new drama from Romania and another demonstration of how that country's new wave is developing a distinctive kind of real-time slice-of-life cinema with characterisation in extreme, pitiless closeup. It's able to open up brilliantly crafted incidental insights into post-Ceaușescu society, and like Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective and Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr Lazarescu, this film has some exquisitely horrible glimpses into bureaucracy and corruption. The story's premise is a noir standard: a wealthy and overbearing mother, Cornelia (Luminița Gheorghiu) has a stormy relationship with her spoilt grownup son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache). When he gets into some serious trouble, his mum has to step in and square things with a word here and a payoff there. Vlad Ivanov – renowned for his chilling...
- 11/1/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Having won the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival – and has since been put forward as Romania’s submission for the Academy Awards, Child’s Pose is certainly a film that demands much attention, and we had the great pleasure of speaking to the director Calin Peter Netzer.
The film, which is out in cinemas on November 1 – tells the story of a complex, dysfunctional relationship between Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu) and her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) that comes to a head when the latter kills a young boy in a car accident. Peter Netzer discusses his decision to leave the aforementioned crash out of the movie, his delight at winning the Golden Bear, and the current state of the Romanian film industry…
The film is based around this one pivotal moment – the car crash. Yet we don’t see it, I was wondering about your decision to leave that out of the film?...
The film, which is out in cinemas on November 1 – tells the story of a complex, dysfunctional relationship between Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu) and her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) that comes to a head when the latter kills a young boy in a car accident. Peter Netzer discusses his decision to leave the aforementioned crash out of the movie, his delight at winning the Golden Bear, and the current state of the Romanian film industry…
The film is based around this one pivotal moment – the car crash. Yet we don’t see it, I was wondering about your decision to leave that out of the film?...
- 10/31/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ever since the turn of the millennium, Romanian cinema has been on something of a dramatic rise, as this New Wave of critically acclaimed pictures continue to compel audiences across the world, with a distinctly minimalist style of filmmaking, often picking up on severe, naturalistic themes. The latest in the long line of poignant and bleak productions is Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose, which took home the prestigious Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival. No pressure, then.
We delve into the life of Cornelia Kerenes (Luminita Gheorghiu), a socialite who finds her life turned upside down when she discovers her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) has been involved in a car accident. Though fearing the worst – it soon transpires that Barbu was in fact the perpetrator and not the victim – as he accidentally ran over a young boy, who tragically died in the event. Cornelia is left devastated...
We delve into the life of Cornelia Kerenes (Luminita Gheorghiu), a socialite who finds her life turned upside down when she discovers her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) has been involved in a car accident. Though fearing the worst – it soon transpires that Barbu was in fact the perpetrator and not the victim – as he accidentally ran over a young boy, who tragically died in the event. Cornelia is left devastated...
- 10/16/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★★☆ Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival and now picked up for UK distribution, Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose (2013) is a raw and unflinching drama, smothered by the unconditional love of a mother. Despite her privileged lifestyle and obvious material wealth, 60-year-old Cornelia's (Luminita Gheorghiu) life is far from cheerful. The one thing she longs for more than anything else in the world is for her thirtysomething, despondent and insular son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) to reciprocate the unreserved affection she has for him - which is easier said then done.
The pair hardly speak, something Cornelia blames on his girlfriend, Carmen (Ilinca Goia), who fails to live up to her standards, and whom Cornelia wholeheartedly believes is the sole reason for her son's withdrawn demeanour. However, when Barbu is involved in a tragic car accident, killing a small child in the process,...
The pair hardly speak, something Cornelia blames on his girlfriend, Carmen (Ilinca Goia), who fails to live up to her standards, and whom Cornelia wholeheartedly believes is the sole reason for her son's withdrawn demeanour. However, when Barbu is involved in a tragic car accident, killing a small child in the process,...
- 10/9/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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
Luminita Gheorghiu as Cornelia in Child's Pose Two welcome features of San Sebastian Film Festival this year have been the presence of strong female characters and interesting roles for older actors - frequently in the same film, from the Romanian drama Child's Pose to British comedy drama Le Week-End and Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity.
All three feature performances by women that could easily be considered award worthy. Luminita Gheorghiu is intensely moving in Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose, which won the Golden Bear and Fipresci critics prizes in Berlin earlier this year. She plays Cornelia a domineering mother, who occupies the same sort of position, thanks to money, in modern Romania as the party elite did during the Communist era.
She wants to control everything in her orbit - in particular, her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) - which means she's not beyond trying to wreck his relationship, even pumping his maid for information.
All three feature performances by women that could easily be considered award worthy. Luminita Gheorghiu is intensely moving in Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose, which won the Golden Bear and Fipresci critics prizes in Berlin earlier this year. She plays Cornelia a domineering mother, who occupies the same sort of position, thanks to money, in modern Romania as the party elite did during the Communist era.
She wants to control everything in her orbit - in particular, her son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) - which means she's not beyond trying to wreck his relationship, even pumping his maid for information.
- 9/25/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Child’s Pose
Written by Calin Peter Netzer and Raxvan Radulescu
Directed by Calin Peter Netzer
Romania, 2013
If we learned anything from Jacki Weaver’s character in Animal Kingdom, it’s that you should never underestimate a man’s mother. Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose continues the Romanian cinematic renaissance most often associated with Cristian Mungiu, another director whose films unflinchingly task modern Romania’s conservative dogma. Mungiu’s recent films, this year’s Beyond the Hills and 2007’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, position female protagonists as national symbols of struggle, the consequence of either religious or political polemics. Netzer’s film is similarly critical of his country’s social hierarchies, though the lens through which he dissects is slightly more inverted: rather than looking at the oppressed population, his institutional critique comes via the disproportionately well-connected, wealthy bourgeoisie upper class. Featuring a powerfully nuanced performance by Luminita Gheorghiu as a palm-greasing matriarch,...
Written by Calin Peter Netzer and Raxvan Radulescu
Directed by Calin Peter Netzer
Romania, 2013
If we learned anything from Jacki Weaver’s character in Animal Kingdom, it’s that you should never underestimate a man’s mother. Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose continues the Romanian cinematic renaissance most often associated with Cristian Mungiu, another director whose films unflinchingly task modern Romania’s conservative dogma. Mungiu’s recent films, this year’s Beyond the Hills and 2007’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, position female protagonists as national symbols of struggle, the consequence of either religious or political polemics. Netzer’s film is similarly critical of his country’s social hierarchies, though the lens through which he dissects is slightly more inverted: rather than looking at the oppressed population, his institutional critique comes via the disproportionately well-connected, wealthy bourgeoisie upper class. Featuring a powerfully nuanced performance by Luminita Gheorghiu as a palm-greasing matriarch,...
- 9/15/2013
- by John Oursler
- SoundOnSight
The slow-burning comedy of Corneliu Porumboiu, dryer than toast and strictly intellectual, can be very rewarding if limited—but indeed, limitations are this film’s foremost concern, both in form and content. When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism opens in a car with the two principal characters, a director, Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache), and an actress, Alina (Diana Avramut), who are involved in an affair while shooting a film. Paul brings up how digital filmmaking removes the limits imposed by working with film and how this, for him, defeats the purpose of cinema. He describes how with film you can never shoot longer than 11 minutes in a single take, arguing it is “rules” such as these that define the art form. In 50 years, he says, people will still be watching something they call “movies,” but they will no longer be movies, not as they exist now.
What ensues is a...
What ensues is a...
- 8/11/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Title: Child’s Pose Director: Calin Peter Netzer Starring: Vlad Ivanov, Florin Zamfirescu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache. The Romanian drama directed by Calin Peter Netzer premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival where it well-deservedly won the Golden Bear. ‘Child’s pose’ isn’t just a powerful tale of corruption and guilt in modern Romania. It’s an in-depth analysis of a pathological relationship between a 32 year-old son, Barbu, and his domineering mother, Cornelia Kerenes. The Yiddish-like-mater sees a chance to regain control over her adult son, by using her connections to try and stop Barbu from going to jail, when he faces manslaughter charges for reckless driving. The movie [ Read More ]
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- 5/10/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
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
Films from Poland, Romania and Slovenia will screen in the 2013 Berlinale Official Competition. The Official Competition, Panorama, Forum and Generation sections have also selected films from Turkey, Georgia, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic and Latvia.
The Polish director Małgośka Szumowska returns to the Berlinale after Elles (2012), starring Juliette Binoche, with W imię... /In the Name of, selected for the Official Competition. The film is produced by Mental Disorder 4 in coproduction with Canal +, and it follows Father Adam who takes over a small parish in the middle of nowhere and has to confront a long forgotten burden and passion. The main characters are played by Andrzej Chyra and Mateusz Kościukieiwcz. Memento Films is the sales agent.
Danis Tanovic makes his entrance in the Official Competition of the Berlinale with Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, the story of a 31 year old woman pregnant with her third child who needs emergency surgery, but has no health inssurance. The film is a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Slovenia, involving Pro.ba, Emotionfilm and Asap Film France. The cast includes Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, and Semsa Mujic.
This is also the first Berlinale for the Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer, who screens in the Official Competition with Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose, a mixture of drama, emotion and humour about the relationship between an overbearing mother and her adult son. Răzvan Rădulescu and Călin Peter Netzer wrote the script and the main characters are played by Luminiţa Gheorghiu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu/The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) and Bogdan Dumitrache (Cu cele mai bune intenţii/Best Intentions). Child's Pose is a 100% Romanian production between Parada Film and HaiHui Entertainment.
After travelling with the first two parts of his Paradise film trilogy to Cannes and Venice, ground-breaking Austrian director Ulrich Seidl is a newcomer to the Berlinale where the third film in the series is to be screened in the Official Competition. Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope is a coproduction between Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH (Austria, www.ulrichseidl.com), Tatfilm (Germany, www.tatfilm.de) and Société Parisienne de Production ( France, www.coproductionoffice.eu).
Georgia sends two films to Berlin. On 7 February, the Panorama’s main programme will openwith the GeorgianChemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze. Produced by director’s production companyZazarfilm with the support of the Georgian National Film Centre, the film tells the story of a young man returning to his home town after studying abroad. Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, and Zura Kipshidze are the main actors. Media Luna New Films is the sales agent.
A Georgian-German coproduction will be screened in Forum. Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom, the first feature by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, is focusing on two young female friends in a country marked by civil war and poverty in 1992.
Two Turkish films were also selected for Panorama. Asli Ozge's Hayatboyu/Lifelong is a Turkish-German-Dutch coproduction between Razor Film Produktion, Augustus Film, Kaliber Film, Bulut Filmand, and Soda Media. The cast includes Defne Halman, Haka Cimenser, and Gizem Akman. Uğur Yücel's Soğuk/Cold is a 100% Turkish production starring Cenk Alibeyoğlu, A. Rıfat Şungar, and Valeria Skorohodova.
Croatia is also represented with two films selected for the Forum section. Krugovi/Circles Srdan Golubović’s drama of three parallel stories about heroism is produced by the Serbian company Bas Celik and the German company Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, in coproduction with the Slovenian company Vertigo/E-motion Film, the Croatian company Propeler Film and the French company La Cinefacture.
Another Croatian coproduction, this time with Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also selected in Forum. The story from Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger aka The Bridge, written and directed by the acclaimed theatre and film director Bobo Jelčić, is set in Mostar, a town still divided into the Croatian and the Bosnian side 20 years after the war. The film is a tale about prejudice, human weaknesses and conflict between the individual and the society played by: Bogdan Diklić, Nada Đurevska, Ivana Roščić, and Izudin Bajrović. The project involves Spiritus Movens, Produkcija Kadar and Croatian Radio and Television.
Two Austrian films will be shown in the Forum section, beginning with the world premiere of Gustav Deutsch's Shirley – Visions of Reality. This Austrian production of Kgp Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production uses 13 cinematically vivified paintings by Edward Hopper in order to tell the story of a woman who lives in a reality she sees as a made up construct. The cast includes Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, and Florentin Groll.
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (also in Forum) is a documentary experiment of 21 binational couples sharing personal moments of their love stories, forming one complete story of how love can rise above the written law. The 80 minite film is produced by Amour Fou Vienna.
The German-Polish coproduction Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak, screening in Forum, is a lyrical portrait of post-socialist reality between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, conceived of as a mix of fictional staging and documentary representation of a dilapidated mental asylum and a landscape scarred by coal mining
Reha Erdem's Jîn (Turkey), selected in Generation 14plus, sees the war between guerrillas and the army in Kurdish areas in Turkey through the eyes of a 17 year old girl, a young fighter (played by Deniz Hasgüler). The film is produced by Ömer Atay through Atlantik Film.
Kasia Rosłaniec's Baby Blues (Poland), will have its European premiere in Generation 14plus. After Mall Girls, Kasia Rosłaniec made a teenage mother’s tour de force through a world of daily chores, nappies fashion and drugs. Zentropa International Poland is producing.
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by the Latvian director Jānis Nords, selected in Generation Kplus, is the touching story of a misunderstood adolescent who tries to negociate his relationship with his mother while delving into the world of the petty crime. The film is produced by Tanka ( alise@tanka.lv) and stars Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, and Matiss Livcans.
Cee Films At The Berlinale:
Official Competition:
W imię... /In the Name of by Małgośka Szumowska (Poland)
Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France -Slovenia)
Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)
Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope by Ulrich Seidl (Austria-Germany-France)
Panorama:
Chemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia)
Hayatboyu/Lifelong by Asli Ozge (Turkey-Germany)
Soğuk/Cold by Uğur Yücel (Turkey)
Forum:
Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß (Georgia-Germany)
Krugovi/Circles by Srdan Golubović (Serbia-Germany-Slovenia-Croatia-France)
Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger by Bobo Jelčić (Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Shirley – Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch (Austria)
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak (Germany-Poland)
Generation 14plus:
Jîn by Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)
Generation Kplus:
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by Jānis Nords (Latvia)...
The Polish director Małgośka Szumowska returns to the Berlinale after Elles (2012), starring Juliette Binoche, with W imię... /In the Name of, selected for the Official Competition. The film is produced by Mental Disorder 4 in coproduction with Canal +, and it follows Father Adam who takes over a small parish in the middle of nowhere and has to confront a long forgotten burden and passion. The main characters are played by Andrzej Chyra and Mateusz Kościukieiwcz. Memento Films is the sales agent.
Danis Tanovic makes his entrance in the Official Competition of the Berlinale with Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, the story of a 31 year old woman pregnant with her third child who needs emergency surgery, but has no health inssurance. The film is a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Slovenia, involving Pro.ba, Emotionfilm and Asap Film France. The cast includes Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, and Semsa Mujic.
This is also the first Berlinale for the Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer, who screens in the Official Competition with Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose, a mixture of drama, emotion and humour about the relationship between an overbearing mother and her adult son. Răzvan Rădulescu and Călin Peter Netzer wrote the script and the main characters are played by Luminiţa Gheorghiu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu/The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) and Bogdan Dumitrache (Cu cele mai bune intenţii/Best Intentions). Child's Pose is a 100% Romanian production between Parada Film and HaiHui Entertainment.
After travelling with the first two parts of his Paradise film trilogy to Cannes and Venice, ground-breaking Austrian director Ulrich Seidl is a newcomer to the Berlinale where the third film in the series is to be screened in the Official Competition. Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope is a coproduction between Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH (Austria, www.ulrichseidl.com), Tatfilm (Germany, www.tatfilm.de) and Société Parisienne de Production ( France, www.coproductionoffice.eu).
Georgia sends two films to Berlin. On 7 February, the Panorama’s main programme will openwith the GeorgianChemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze. Produced by director’s production companyZazarfilm with the support of the Georgian National Film Centre, the film tells the story of a young man returning to his home town after studying abroad. Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, and Zura Kipshidze are the main actors. Media Luna New Films is the sales agent.
A Georgian-German coproduction will be screened in Forum. Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom, the first feature by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, is focusing on two young female friends in a country marked by civil war and poverty in 1992.
Two Turkish films were also selected for Panorama. Asli Ozge's Hayatboyu/Lifelong is a Turkish-German-Dutch coproduction between Razor Film Produktion, Augustus Film, Kaliber Film, Bulut Filmand, and Soda Media. The cast includes Defne Halman, Haka Cimenser, and Gizem Akman. Uğur Yücel's Soğuk/Cold is a 100% Turkish production starring Cenk Alibeyoğlu, A. Rıfat Şungar, and Valeria Skorohodova.
Croatia is also represented with two films selected for the Forum section. Krugovi/Circles Srdan Golubović’s drama of three parallel stories about heroism is produced by the Serbian company Bas Celik and the German company Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, in coproduction with the Slovenian company Vertigo/E-motion Film, the Croatian company Propeler Film and the French company La Cinefacture.
Another Croatian coproduction, this time with Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also selected in Forum. The story from Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger aka The Bridge, written and directed by the acclaimed theatre and film director Bobo Jelčić, is set in Mostar, a town still divided into the Croatian and the Bosnian side 20 years after the war. The film is a tale about prejudice, human weaknesses and conflict between the individual and the society played by: Bogdan Diklić, Nada Đurevska, Ivana Roščić, and Izudin Bajrović. The project involves Spiritus Movens, Produkcija Kadar and Croatian Radio and Television.
Two Austrian films will be shown in the Forum section, beginning with the world premiere of Gustav Deutsch's Shirley – Visions of Reality. This Austrian production of Kgp Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production uses 13 cinematically vivified paintings by Edward Hopper in order to tell the story of a woman who lives in a reality she sees as a made up construct. The cast includes Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, and Florentin Groll.
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (also in Forum) is a documentary experiment of 21 binational couples sharing personal moments of their love stories, forming one complete story of how love can rise above the written law. The 80 minite film is produced by Amour Fou Vienna.
The German-Polish coproduction Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak, screening in Forum, is a lyrical portrait of post-socialist reality between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, conceived of as a mix of fictional staging and documentary representation of a dilapidated mental asylum and a landscape scarred by coal mining
Reha Erdem's Jîn (Turkey), selected in Generation 14plus, sees the war between guerrillas and the army in Kurdish areas in Turkey through the eyes of a 17 year old girl, a young fighter (played by Deniz Hasgüler). The film is produced by Ömer Atay through Atlantik Film.
Kasia Rosłaniec's Baby Blues (Poland), will have its European premiere in Generation 14plus. After Mall Girls, Kasia Rosłaniec made a teenage mother’s tour de force through a world of daily chores, nappies fashion and drugs. Zentropa International Poland is producing.
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by the Latvian director Jānis Nords, selected in Generation Kplus, is the touching story of a misunderstood adolescent who tries to negociate his relationship with his mother while delving into the world of the petty crime. The film is produced by Tanka ( alise@tanka.lv) and stars Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, and Matiss Livcans.
Cee Films At The Berlinale:
Official Competition:
W imię... /In the Name of by Małgośka Szumowska (Poland)
Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France -Slovenia)
Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)
Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope by Ulrich Seidl (Austria-Germany-France)
Panorama:
Chemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia)
Hayatboyu/Lifelong by Asli Ozge (Turkey-Germany)
Soğuk/Cold by Uğur Yücel (Turkey)
Forum:
Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß (Georgia-Germany)
Krugovi/Circles by Srdan Golubović (Serbia-Germany-Slovenia-Croatia-France)
Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger by Bobo Jelčić (Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Shirley – Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch (Austria)
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak (Germany-Poland)
Generation 14plus:
Jîn by Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)
Generation Kplus:
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by Jānis Nords (Latvia)...
- 2/12/2013
- by Iulia Blaga
- Sydney's Buzz
A Nine-Minute Interval
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu
Producers: Romanian 42km Film’s Marcela Ursu and Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) and newbie Diana Avrămuţ
With his Cannes’ Camera d’or winning debut film, 12:08 East of Bucharest (’06), he deftly captured Romania’s revolution, with his second, the Un Certain Regard in 2009 Jury Prize and Fipresci Prize winning Police, Adjective (’09) Porumboiu’s antithesis of a police thriller where bureaucracy trumps democracy. His third feature falls under the perfect cinematic snack food: the sub-genre of films about filmmaking. Should be just as witty.
Gist: Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache), a young filmmaker apparently working with the digital format.
Release Date: In post-production since December-ish, expect this to be launched at the festival where has been supported by and has made his name. Cannes – Un Certain Regard section...
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu
Producers: Romanian 42km Film’s Marcela Ursu and Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) and newbie Diana Avrămuţ
With his Cannes’ Camera d’or winning debut film, 12:08 East of Bucharest (’06), he deftly captured Romania’s revolution, with his second, the Un Certain Regard in 2009 Jury Prize and Fipresci Prize winning Police, Adjective (’09) Porumboiu’s antithesis of a police thriller where bureaucracy trumps democracy. His third feature falls under the perfect cinematic snack food: the sub-genre of films about filmmaking. Should be just as witty.
Gist: Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache), a young filmmaker apparently working with the digital format.
Release Date: In post-production since December-ish, expect this to be launched at the festival where has been supported by and has made his name. Cannes – Un Certain Regard section...
- 1/16/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Berlinale’s Competition section has picked the first six films for the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. They include productions and co-productions from Austria, Chile, France, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Spain and the USA.
In addition, Christian Rost and Claus Strigel will present the world premiere of their documentary Unter Menschen (Redemption Impossible) in the Berlinale Special.
Competition
Gloria
Chile/Spain
By Sebastián Lelio (La Sagrada Familia, Navidad, El año del tigre)
With Paulina García, Sergio Hernández
World premiere
Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon)
Republic of Korea
By Hong Sangsoo (Night and Day, Hahaha, In Another Country)
With Eunchae Jung, Sunkyun Lee
World premiere
Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope)
Austria/France/Germany
By Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days, Import Export, Paradise: Love)
With Melanie Lenz, Vivian Bartsch, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas
World premiere
Poziţia Copilului (Child’s Pose)
Romania
By Călin Peter Netzer (Maria, Medal of Honor,...
In addition, Christian Rost and Claus Strigel will present the world premiere of their documentary Unter Menschen (Redemption Impossible) in the Berlinale Special.
Competition
Gloria
Chile/Spain
By Sebastián Lelio (La Sagrada Familia, Navidad, El año del tigre)
With Paulina García, Sergio Hernández
World premiere
Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon)
Republic of Korea
By Hong Sangsoo (Night and Day, Hahaha, In Another Country)
With Eunchae Jung, Sunkyun Lee
World premiere
Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope)
Austria/France/Germany
By Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days, Import Export, Paradise: Love)
With Melanie Lenz, Vivian Bartsch, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas
World premiere
Poziţia Copilului (Child’s Pose)
Romania
By Călin Peter Netzer (Maria, Medal of Honor,...
- 12/13/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Critics who flock to Cannes every year and the cinephiles who can’t get enough of the Romania’s contributions to art-house cinema will be pleased to learn that (according to Filmneweurope) 12:08 East of Bucharest and Police, Adjective helmer Corneliu Porumboiu is currently in post production on his Bucharest-shot third feature entitled, A Nine-Minute Interval. Safe to say that we can pencil in this film about filmmaking as a 2013 Cannes contender as this also happens to be a French/Romanian co-production.
Gist: The logline I’ve managed to piece together is short and sweet, but this tells the story of Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, How I Celebrated the End of the World, Loverboy, Best Intentions), a young filmmaker apparently working with the digital format.
Worth Noting: Romanian 42km Film’s Marcela Ursu is producing (this is her third time working with Porumboiu) alongside Les Films...
Gist: The logline I’ve managed to piece together is short and sweet, but this tells the story of Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, How I Celebrated the End of the World, Loverboy, Best Intentions), a young filmmaker apparently working with the digital format.
Worth Noting: Romanian 42km Film’s Marcela Ursu is producing (this is her third time working with Porumboiu) alongside Les Films...
- 12/12/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Above: Milagros Mumenthaler's award-winner, Abrir Puertas y Ventanas.
Locarno is wrapping up its 64th edition tonight with an awards ceremony that spreads the wealth across nine features in the International Competition and the Cinema of the Present. In a year that was notable for several strong debut films, six of the nine awarded films are "opera primas." (Full disclosure: I served on this year's Opera Prima jury, with the Bangkok Post film critic Kong Rithdee and Le Film Francais correspondent Anthony Bobeau.) The Golden Leopard went to Milagros Mumenthaler's exceptionally confident Chekhovian debut, Abrir Puertas y Ventanas, which has been officially titled in English under the very poor Back to Stay, but which is subtitled on the print with the far better Open Doors, Open Windows, which also scored a prize for Maria Canale as best actress—an odd pick in my view, since the film is...
Locarno is wrapping up its 64th edition tonight with an awards ceremony that spreads the wealth across nine features in the International Competition and the Cinema of the Present. In a year that was notable for several strong debut films, six of the nine awarded films are "opera primas." (Full disclosure: I served on this year's Opera Prima jury, with the Bangkok Post film critic Kong Rithdee and Le Film Francais correspondent Anthony Bobeau.) The Golden Leopard went to Milagros Mumenthaler's exceptionally confident Chekhovian debut, Abrir Puertas y Ventanas, which has been officially titled in English under the very poor Back to Stay, but which is subtitled on the print with the far better Open Doors, Open Windows, which also scored a prize for Maria Canale as best actress—an odd pick in my view, since the film is...
- 8/13/2011
- MUBI
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle was the big winner at the 5th edition of Gopo Awards (Romania's film industry honours) last night, winning seven awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Florin Şerban) and Best Supporting Actress (Clara Vodă). Titus Muntean's Kino Caravan was a surprising winner of four Gopos for Best Original Music, Best Production Design, Best Costumes and Best Make-up. On the other side, Victor Rebengiuc winning Best Actor for his performance in Medal of Honor was no surprise. While Mirela Oprişor received Best Actress award, the only Gopo award for Radu Munean's Tuesday, after Christmas. George Piştereanu impressed the jury, winning the Most Promising Newcomer for his performance in If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle. Adrian Sitaru took home the award for Best Shortfilm – The Cage, and Andrei Ujică's The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu winning the Best Documentary category was not much of a surprise at all either.
- 3/30/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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
2010 has been another good year for Romanian cinema. Lots of awards and many new young directors that confirmed films like 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu or Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective weren't accidents. As some people call it, the "Romanian New Wave", continued to gain the world’s attention at film festivals through 2010, featuring new filmmakers that have just made their first feature film. Florin Şerban’s If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Bogdan George Apetri’s Periferic or Marian Crişan’s Morgen are among the highlights of the year. For the next year, there are many films waiting an international film festival and domestic release: Adrian Sitaru’s second feature From Love, with Best Intentions (Din dragoste, cu cele mai bune intenții), Virgil Nicolaescu’s The Godmother (Nașa), Alexandru Maftei’s Hello! How are you? (Bună! Ce faci?), Cătălin Mitulescu’s second feature Loverboy, another...
- 1/5/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The filmmaker who gave us The Way I Spent The End of The World, back in 2005, has finished working to his second feature - Loverboy, based on a screenplay previously entitled "A Heart-Shaped Balloon." Mitulescu's film tells the story of Luca, a 20 year-old young guy who lives in Hârşova, a small town near the Danube. Luca seduces girls, makes them fall in love with him and passes them on to a human trafficking network in Constanţa. The policemen call this technique the “falling in love” method and the ones doing it are named “loverboys”. Luca's life changes when he falls in love with a girl named Veli. He's willing to give up everything he did before to be with her. The film stars George Piştereanu and Ada Condeescu, while the shooting took place in Contanţa and its surroundings, although for the last two days of shooting the entire team moved to Bucharest.
- 12/6/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
At thirty-nine, although he has made only one single feature film, Romanian filmmaker Adrian Sitaru is already internationally known. He won the Leopards of Tomorrow section of the 2007 Locarno International Film Festival with his short Waves (Valuri) and for his first feature – Hooked (Pescuit sportiv), he received the Special Jury Award and the Best Actress prize for Ioana Flora and Maria Dinulescu at the 2008 Thessaloniki Film Festival. Now, Adrian Sitaru is preparing his second feature. From Love with Best Intentions tells the story of a 33-year-old man, named Alex, whose mother suffers a stroke. "Although his mother seems ok, Alex becomes more and more irrational, antsy and paranoiac. This happens because, from love, with best intentions, we’re getting ignorant, blind and starting to make mistakes." explains the director. Sitaru continues his collaboration director of photography Adrian Silişteanu and when asked about the visual imprint of the future film he mentioned that,...
- 8/10/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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