Witness a long-full weekend of award-winning films, panels & pioneering music, as we hook up with our friends from the East End Film Festival to put together a strong line-up of Romanian events. Some of today's most visionary film makers and musicians are coming to London to present their astoundingly successful projects.
A rare chance to meet Bogdan George Apetri, Monica Birladeanu, Marian Crisan, Mihai Fulger, Vlad Ivanov, Radu Muntean, Bobby Paunescu, Andrei Ujica, Ana Ularu, Urma and Nico de Transilvania.
Having won East End Film Festival's Best International Debut Feature award in 2010 for Francesca, filmmaker Bobby Paunescu is the director-in-residence at this year's edition, heading up a strand of programming that reflects the cinematic story of Romania. Village Underground will also host a cross-culture British/Romanian Transylmania blowout party with Romanian band Urma, Nico de Transilvania, VJ mash-ups by Addictive TV and Si Begg.
Event Listings:
Thursday 28 April 8.30pm, Cineworld West India Quay - UK premiere: Principles of life followed by Q&A with leading actor Vlad Ivanov; The short-before-the-feature: Strung love, by Victor Dragomir
Friday 29 April 5pm, Rich Mix - London premiere: Morgen followed by Q&A with director Marian Crisan; The short-before-the-feature: Grand Café, by Bogdan Mihailescu 8.30pm, Rich Mix - UK premiere: Outbound followed by Q&A with director Bogdan George Apetri and leading actress Ana Ularu; The short-before-the-feature: The Cage, by Adrian Sitaru
Saturday 30 April 6pm, Rich Mix - Screening: Out of the present followed by Q&A with director Andrei Ujica; 8pm, Spitalfields Market - Screening: silent film Manasse with live music by Minima; 8.30pm, Village Underground - Music: Transylmania with Urma, Addictive TV, Nico de Transilvania, DJ Si Begg
Sunday 1 May 5pm, Rich Mix - London premiere: Tuesday, After Christmas followed by Q&A with director Radu Muntean; The short-before-the-feature: Stopover, by Ioana Uricaru 7.30pm, Rich Mix - Panel: Romanian Cinema: Waves, Storms and Horizons with directors Bogdan George Apetri, Marian Crisan, Bobby Paunescu, Radu Muntean, Andrei Ujica and film critic Mihai Fulger
Monday 2 May 12-8pm, various venues - Screenings: shorts & documentaries part of Movie MayDay
Click here for the Romanian Focus brochure. (pdf file, 720 KB)
Details about the tickets: www.richmix.org.uk (£7.50/£5.50conc for the films Morgen, Outbound, Out of the Present, Tuesday, After Christmas and the panel Romanian Cinema: Waves, Storms and Horizons) www.cineworld.co.uk (£7.50/£5.50conc for Principles of life) www.wegottickets.com/eeff (£10 for Transylmania Party) Entrance to Silent Cinema: Manasse+Minima is free. Seating available on a first come, first served basis.
The project is organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London in partnership with East End Film Festival.
Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the East End Film Festival is one of the biggest film festivals in the UK and offers a 6-day packed programme of screenings and film-focussed music and arts events, spread across over 30 East-London venues.
