Film Movement have landed yet another winner from the Berlin Film Festival – If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle accounts as one more sample of the extremely rich Romanian film scene. Co-written and produced by Catalin Mitulescu (How I Celebrated the End of the World), Florin Serban’s debut film – a handheld offering about a young teen trying to re-enter society after a stint juvenile detention center, won the Grand Jury and Alfred Bauer prizes in Berlin — proving that Romania films aren’t only a Cannes-centric discovery.
Film Movement already put a January 5th launch date in place, and as it turns out, I believe this is the first title to be mentioned as a country’s official selection for the Best Foreign language category for the 2011 Academy Awards. The film stars non-pro actors George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu and veteran thesp Clara Voda (from Cristi Puiu’s Aurora) plays the mother coming in trying to fix things.
