Marin Apostol

Matilda is a woman created from my imagination, Bogdan’s imagination, from other characters reactions towards her and, also, from Marius Panduru’s look, from the constant development of the story and from our solutions we found with each step in order to build our ideas. Matilda is a tired person, aged before her time, who doesn’t trust anybody and whom nobody trusts either.

Romanian cinema at 58th San Sebastian Festival will be represented by Principles of Life (Principii de viață). Constantin Popescu's sophomore feature has been selected to compete in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. The film examines the rapport between father and son, and in a nutshell is about the generation gaps and the inability to communicate.

"I’ve been asked many times to include the film into a genre: fantastic drama? a legend? a ballad? a folkloric myth? a fairy tale? The only thing I can say is that it’s fiction. Against today’s author cinema trending, against this hyper-realistic current, Europolis doesn’t wish to copy reality; the reality is just a starting point for a imaginative foray in human’s soul"

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.

Rom com Wedding in Basarabia, a Romanian, Moldovan and Luxembourg co-production directed by Nap Toader (Napoleon Helmis) has been selected for Montreal World Film Festival 2010 edition, where it will compete in the Focus on World Cinema section.