Marin Apostol

Florin Iepan knows what happened in Odessa on the last evening of One World Documentary Film Festival held in Bucharest, Florin Iepan made quite an impression on those that attended. Iepan started by telling the public that he can't find anymore the support needed to complete his film. Later, the director admitted that everything is ok and his documentary is not in danger.

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).

Among the dozen documentaries in competition this year at the Tribeca Film Festival's World Documentary Feature section, we find Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coca-Cozma's Our School, a bitter-sweet story about hope and race, and an elegy about generational prejudice and squandered opportunities.

The Moldovan director (often seen as a Romanian one), Igor Cobileanski, has just completed shooting on his second feature film, Flying Lessons (La limita de jos a cerului). His first feature, Tache, was made for TV and released back in 2007. But that’s not what has made him so well-known in Romania.

The nominations for the 5th edition of Gopo, Romania's film industry honours, have been made publicly available during this week. As expected, Florin Şerban's first feature film, If I Want to Whistle I Whistle received the most nominations with 13, followed by Marian Crişan's debut film, Morgen, with 11 nominations, while Radu Muntean's Tuesday, after Christmas was nominated in 10 categories.