In the past three years, Romanian Cinema burst on the international scene and got wide recognition. The time has come to prove that the so-called New Wave wasn't a one-hit-wonder. This year's Berlin Film Festival featured a strong Romanian presence (two feature film debuts and two short films) and there's already a frantic buzz surrounding the new titles slated to open in Cannes. Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) is back on track with an ambitious omnibus project that he wrote and co-directed, TALES FROM THE GOLEN AGE. Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest) returns with a far more radical second film. Razvan Radulescu, the officially acknowledged screenwriter of the New Wave, directed his first feature that he co-wrote, FELICIA, FIRST OF ALL, while Bobby Paunescu, the producer of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, made his first steps as a director with FRANCESCA, produced by Cristi Puiu.
Join us at the RCINY Auditorium for an exclusive introduction to the most anticipated Romanian features and documentaries of 2009! Following the great critical response to the previously Romanian films released in US, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York kindly invites festival programmers and movie lovers altogether to attend this presentation. The film menu, complete with snippets from the above mentioned titles and several others, is planned by Mihai Chirilov, film critic and director of Transilvania International Film Festival, and will be followed by a roundtable dedicated to the future of the Romanian New Wave with Richard Pena, artistic director of Film Society of Lincoln Center and New York Film Festival.
WED, April 22, 7:30 pm
RCINY - THE AUDITORIUM
Free admission
[Image from "Tales from the Golden Age", written and co-directed by Cristian Mungiu]
