Corneliu Porumboiu Gives ‘Flying Lessons’ to Igor Cobileanski

Everything that Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu touches is gold and/or silver (he claimed the Jury Prize this year for the Un Certain Regard selected Police, Adjective) so imagine the chance for an up-and-coming filmmaker to share screenwriting duties on a project that Porumboiu originally developed in Cannes Cinéfondation Residence (workshop for screenplays) and then to take that same screenplay and make it your feature length debut. This will be Igor Cobileanski‘s feature length debut (he has previously directed short films as the one you can find below. 

Filmneweurope.com reports that this would be the first project that Porumboiu writes but doesn’t helm, instead giving it to the Moldavian filmmaker mentioned above. Going either by the title Flying Lessons (or working title Broken Rib), this is a drama about a 25-year-old small-time drug dealer from a forgotten little town in the contemporary Republic of Moldavia, who tries to cope with his father’s suicide, his sad lovestory and the desire to fly a glider. Shooting will only take place in Autumn of next year and will be produced by Saga Film with a grant from the Romanian National Centre for Cinema. With the mention of Porumboiu, we can expect this title to benefit from additional support either in terms of financing or film festival inclusions.