The award-winning Romanian short film The boxing lesson (Lectia de box), directed by Alexandru Mavrodineanu, will be screened together with shorts from Quebec, Belgium, Switzerland, Lebanon, Morocco and France, on the occasion of the annual celebration of the Francophone week (13-20 March 2011).
Synopsis: Victor, a businessman from Bucharest, can no longer stand to see his son beaten up at school so he takes the boy to boxing classes. But twelve-year-old Vlad refuses to take part. To teach him a lesson, Victor enters the boxing ring himself.
Romania | 2007 | 12min | 35mm | Color Language: Romanian with English subtitles Producer: Catalin Mitulescu Cast: Vlad Voda, Bogdan Dumitrache
Alexandu Mavrodineanu was born in Bucharest and spent his childhood between Austria, France and Italy. He studied at the Technical Television School in Berlin. Between 1995 and 2005 he worked in various locations around the world as a sound-recordist or camera assistant for various broadcasters, including ARTE, BBC and CNN. His most recent film is Music in the blood (2010). His Boxing Lesson was selected by a number of international festivals among which was the elitist New York Film Festival (2007).
When: 22 March 2011, 8.30pm;
Where: Ciné lumière, Institut Francais, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
Tickets: £3 from www.institut-francais.org.uk
