'New European Documentary' Opens in London with ‘Chuck Norris vs Communism’
We are thrilled to be part of Open City Docs and EUNIC London's 'New European Documentary', a new series to be launched in one of the capital's most beautiful new cinemas,Picturehouse Central. The event opens with a gala screening of the acclaimed Romanian
Latest Romanian Cinematic Crop at the BFI’s 59th London Film Festival
Our collaboration with the British Film Institute (BFI) hits the six-year mark, giving us the opportunity to shine a spotlight on 2015’s most acclaimed Romanian films at the BFI London Film Festival. Make sure you don’t miss a darling of international festival
MARK COUSINS PRESENTS: Romanian Film Season in Edinburgh
With characteristic idiosyncratic flair, acclaimed director and author Mark Cousins curates a series of Romanian film, revisiting 100 years of cinematic haunting eeriness, delicious sarcasm and groundbreaking miserabilism, which have been amassed some of the highest
Focus on Romania at the Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival in Bristol
The guest of honour at the 21st edition of the Encounters festival is the Romanian cinema: celebrated filmmakers and award-winning short films will be the centrepiece of the country focus. We are happy to support the two Romanian directors in the official competition: Adrian
Porumboiu's 'The Second Game' at ICA's Cinematheque
The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents Corneliu Porumboiu's 'The Second Game' as part of their Cinematheque's Offside season, which showcases films that use football as a means to explore wider social and political issues. We are excited to team
THE MOROMETES 60: Preda On Screen
A daring, unforgiving mirror of a society disrupted by violent change, teaming with memorable characters and tackling the most stringent themes of a traumatic time, Marin Preda's literature has been a copious source of stories for the big screen. The 'Preda On
"Chuck Norris vs Communism" la Festivalul Internațional de Film de la Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Film Festival, the world's oldest continually running film festival, features the European premiere of 'Chuck Norris vs Communism', a documentary about the redemptive power of film in times of political and social distress. With the
'Toto and His Sisters' Documentary Premieres at the Open City Documentary Festival
One of the most talked about Romanian documentaries of the last years has its UK premiere at the 2015 edition of the Open City Documentary Festival in London. The Romanian Cultural Institute in London is pleased to support the screening of 'Toto and His Sisters', Alexander
Romanian Cinematheque’s Crime Season Ends with 'Police, Adjective', A Sour Moral Tale Masterfully Crafted
The last film in our Romanian Cinematheque's Crime Season is'Police, Adjective' (2009), written and directed by celebrated helmer Corneliu Porumboiu. The film is a superbly directed and acted meditation on moral choice torn between the imperatives of law,
The Crime Season at the Romanian Cinematheque Continues with 'The Rage', A High-Octane Thriller from Director Radu Muntean
As Britain negotiates the fog and mist of spring, our Crime Season continues with another high-octane thriller, directed by versatile auteur Radu Muntean and starring Dragoș Bucur, the fetish leading man of the Romanian New Wave. Furia/ 'The Rage' marks
The Crime Season at the Romanian Cinematheque opens with 'a slow burn thriller taken to the extreme'
Every cinematheque has to have a crime season. And what film would proudly open our programme better than Cristi Puiu's dark and disturbing 'Aurora'?Aurora -- that is, 'dawn' in Romanian -- is the moment when night and day meet. 'Aurora'
An Oxonian in the East: Tom Wilson’s 'The București Experiment' at the Romanian Cinematheque
The Romanian Cinematheque's autumn season debuts with a controversial film that claims precedence in several respects: it is the first documentary included in our programme, it is screened in London for the first time and it is made by a first-time director.