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If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle’s Ada Condeescu & Lorna’s Silence’s Arta Dobroshi Among Shooting Stars Ten of 2013

Published on December 13, 2012

Actress Ada Condeescu who has in just a trio of films (award-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, the Cannes selected Loverboy and the much anticipated Wolf) and Arta Dobroshi’s whose stunning career resume began with the Dardenne’s Lorna’s Silence, Daniel Mulloy’s brilliant short Baby, and Catherine Corsini’s Cannes-selected Three Worlds are two of the ten names/faces who’ve been added to the list of 10 European actors selected as the 2013 Shooting Stars (annually presented at the Berlin Film Festival). Here is the complete list of ten names/faces to watch out for in European cinema:

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard: Nominated by Danish Film Institute

Laura Birn: Nominated by Finnish Film Foundation

Christa Theret: Nominated by uniFrance

Saskia Rosendahl: Nominated by German Films

Luca Marinelli: Nominated by Istituto Luce Cinecitta

Arta Dobroshi: Nominated by Kosova Cinematography Center

Ada Condeescu: Nominated by Romanian Film Promotion

Jure Henigman: Nominated by Slovenian Film Centre

Nermina Lukač: Nominated by Swedish Film Institute

Carla Juri: Nominated by Swiss Films

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).