The 5th Annual Romanian Film Festival in NYC

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Published on Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:49

Written by Brad Balfour

The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York presents the 5th Annual Romanian Film Festival in NYC from December 3-5 2010 at Tribeca Cinemas. Each year, the festival presents the best and most recent films from Romania’s unique and critically exalted national body of contemporary cinema to New York audiences.

This year’s edition entitled A New Beginning, features new works from filmmakers who were at the forefront of the “Romanian New Wave,” such as Cristi Puiu, Radu Muntean and Razvan Radulescu, as well as debut features from Constantin Popescu and Bobby Paunescu. The highly-anticipated new work from Andrei Ujica (Videograms of a Revolution) -- The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu -- is the opening night film.

The festival will conclude with the landmark Romanian film Carnival Scenes by master filmmaker Lucian Pintilie, featuring legendary Romanian stage and screen actor Victor Rebengiuc (Medal of Honor, Tuesday, After Christmas), who is also the honored guest is this year’s festival.

Festival curator Mihai Chirilov has created a special section this year entitled Women on the Move, focusing on the representation of Women in post-communist society. Chirilov has stated, “New Romanian Cinema was born in 2001 and as of 2005 became the thing on the international film scene. So, 2010 is a natural time for a new beginning. Challenging the aesthetic of the Romanian New Wave as we know it, with a focus on characters stuck in limbo, this year’s abundant crop of New Romanian Cinema is the perfect mirror of a society at a crossroads desperately looking for a new path to follow."

After a five-year gap since his worldwide breakthrough with The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Puiu is back with Aurora, the very title of which implies a new beginning.

Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, closes a chapter of recent Romanian history, offering a brand new, hotly debated and much-needed perspective on the national anti-hero.

Most of the new films’ characters are longing for a new start, be it the unfaithful husband in Tuesday, After Christmas, the guilty father in Medal of Honor, or the women challenged by the contexts of their lives in both Francesca and First of All, Felicia.

Also in attendance at the festival will be actresses Monica Barladeanu (Francesca), Mariana Mihut (Carnival Scenes), Ozana Oancea (First of All, Felicia, Stuck on Christmas), director/producer Bobby Paunescu (Francesca, Aurora), producer Andrei Cretulescu (Merry Circus, The Shukar Collective Project, The World According to Ion B.), producer/director Tudor Giurgiu, director of Transilvania International Film Festival, Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu, and film critic Alex Leo Serban.

All films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles, introduced by Romanian film critics.

Tickets --Regular Adult – $12.00; Student/Senior – $10.00; 5-Ticket Package: $50.00 -- are now available online at www.tribecacinemas.com

For a full festival schedule go to: www.icrny.org

The 5th Annual Romanian Film Festival in NYC
December 3-5
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street (at Laight Street)
NYC, NY 10013
(SUBWAY: 1, 6, A, C, E, trains to Canal St.)

The Romanian Cultural Institute
200 East 38th Street (at 3rd Avenue)
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212-687-0180
Fax: 212-687-0181
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