The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv is proud to announce the screening of the Romanian films Beyond the hills (Romania/France/Belgium 2012, directed by Cristian Mungiu) and Everybody in our family (Romania/Holland 2012, director: Radu Jude) at the Haifa Film Festival (20.09-8.10.2012).
Screening program:
1. Beyond the hills (152 minutes; Hebrew subtitles)30.09.2012, 9 pm, Rappaport Hall
02.10.2012, 9.30 pm, Rappaport Hall (in the presence of the director, Cristian Mungiu)
Tickets: http://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Movie%20Info.php?id=6187
Alina is determined to rescue her childhood friend Voichita from the monastery she was sent to after both girls were ejected from an orphanage at the age of eighteen. Alina's single-minded resolve excludes any consideration that the docile Voichita might have actually found fulfillment in this austere retreat - and a means of forgetting the forbidden love she and Alina once shared. Standing between them is the unyielding "Papa", the head of the monastic order. He soon comes to believe that Alina has fallen prey to demonic possession, and it is his duty to chastise her soul.
Based on the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran.
2. Everybody in our family (108 minutes; Hebrew subtitles)
29.09.2012, 5 pm, Rappaport Hall
08.10.2012, 2 pm, Tikotin Museum
Tickets: http://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Movie%20Info.php?id=6243
Aside from the morning hangover, his parents, the battle with nicotine and car problems, Marius Vizereanu's greatest stress factor is the imminent visit to the cramped apartment where his young daughter Sofia lives with her grandmother Coca, mother Otilia, his ex, and Otilia's new partner, Aurel. Marius is an onlooker there at best, but today he wants to pickup Sofia to take her on a seaside outing. When he knocks on the door, they all try to prevent it, pretending the girl is sick with high fever. Marius suspects they're lying, insists on having his own way and before long polite conversations degenerate into loud arguments, then into blows and the police are called.
For further details:
www.haifaff.co.il
www.icr.ro/haifaff2012_en
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"Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for his last full-length film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, will attend the festival to present his latest movie, Beyond the Hills. This new film, which won a joint Best Actress Award and the Best Screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes Festival, is the story of a friends who meet in an orphanage.
One moves to Germany while the other makes a life in a convent, but their friendship, as well as their bond to a priest, endures as the rest of their world changes. This young director is one of the most talented and exciting in the world and his follow- up to 4 Months has generated a great deal of excitement among cineastes."
(Hannah Brown, Lights! Red Carpet! Films, 27.09.2012, Jerusalem Post)
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=286269
