Marin Apostol

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."

Radu Gabrea, the Romanian director who has recently made Red Gloves and Gruber's Journey, will start working to a docu-drama about the last days in Ceausescu's life. Most probably the shooting will take place on January – February 2011, while the release is set for 2012.

Hello! How are you? is the film that helmer Alexandru Maftei hopes will represent a new era in Romanian cinema: an era of the films for the general public. Maftei sophomore film follows his debut pic, Fii cu ochii pe fericire. A decade has passed since his debut and follow up picture and during all this time, Maftei worked mostly in advertising until he felt the need to come back to his first love: making movies.

Different Mothers is based on a true story that happened to polish movie director Krzysztof Kieslowski during the filming Dworzec (Station). Kieslowski and his small team were filming in a railway station during the night for a documentary when the police came and asked them for their footage to see if it can be used as evidence in a criminal case. What Kieslowski filmed couldn’t help the police at all. But the Polish director started to think a lot about “What if… the police found something useful? What if… I had moved the camera a little to the left and not to the right?” Somehow, this incident resulted in Kieslowski abandoning documentary filmmaking altogether.

"For an outstanding and unpretentious way of dealing with the subject. For the simplicity of execution, but also for very complex performances of the actors, which enabled the real persons to appear on screen”, Adrian Sitaru's The Cage has won the Short Film Competition at Warsaw Film Festival.