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Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Considered Tops in Romanian Film of 2010
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu has been named the Best Romanian Film at the 11th Best Film Fest edition - a festival which awards the Best in Romanian film of the previous year. Its director, Andrei Ujica, has also won the Best Director category. The award for the Best Film released in Romania during 2010 went to David Fincher’s The Social Network, while The White Ribbon/Das Weisse Band by Michael Haneke received the Best European Film award.
Top 5 Most Anticipated Romanian Films for 2011
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.
Top 5: Best in Romanian Cinema in 2010
It was one more vintage year for Romanian films on the world cinema scene. The long-awaited film from Cristi Puiu in the Cannes' Un Certain Regard selected Aurora won over some critics (including two on our site) but those who didn;t give the film a glowing review accused the film which runs at 180 minutes of being too long. Despite this, the film has been sold to more than a dozen countries (including The Cinema Guild in the U.S.) and it will be released internationally next year, as well as domestically.
Eva Pervolovici’s Feature Debut Set for 2012
Strada Film has a new film project in development with a basic log-line about drug-dealers and an innocent girl. This will be the first feature film of Eva Pervolovici, who’s also written the screenplay, along with Monica Stan, while the producers are Strada Film (the company that produced Florin Serban’s If I Want to Whistle I Whistle - which gets released early next month in the U.S) and Marcian Lazăr.
Next Year Adrian Popovici is ‘Looking for a Mother’
Adrian Popovici is currently in the post-production phase on his latest project. Pegged with an October 2011 release, Looking for a Mother (original title: Se cauta o mama) was shot in August of this year in Moldova and now it’s in the beginning stages of post-prod.
