Co-production forum marks 20th anniversary this year.
Laurynas Bareisa, winner of the 2021 best film prize at Venice’s Orrizonti section for his debut Pilgrims, is among the directors presenting new projects at the 20th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production forum (22-26 March).
The Lithuanian director is bringing Drowning Dry to Sofia where it is one of five projects in a section dedicated to second feature films.
The section’s line-up also includes The Last Slap by Italian director Matteo Oleotto whose debut feature Zoran, My Nephew The Idiot premiered in Venice’s Critics Week in 2013.
The Last Slap’s...
Laurynas Bareisa, winner of the 2021 best film prize at Venice’s Orrizonti section for his debut Pilgrims, is among the directors presenting new projects at the 20th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production forum (22-26 March).
The Lithuanian director is bringing Drowning Dry to Sofia where it is one of five projects in a section dedicated to second feature films.
The section’s line-up also includes The Last Slap by Italian director Matteo Oleotto whose debut feature Zoran, My Nephew The Idiot premiered in Venice’s Critics Week in 2013.
The Last Slap’s...
- 3/17/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The 11th edition of Arras Days (part of the The Arras Film Festival) is one more source for Euro projects still at the script phase to find some early coin support. Naturally there are some names here from some heavyweights including two filmmakers who were at the Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti section) in Teona Strugar Mitevska (The Happiest Man in the World) and Michal Blasko (Victim). We also have the creative tandem in Romanian scribe Alexandru Baciu and actress Maria Popistasu with a project that would become Baciu’s directorial fiction debut. Here are the projects vying for development grants.…...
- 11/11/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Imanol Rayo’s “Dog Days,” a coming-of-age story set one sizzling summer in the Spanish countryside, won the top prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which wrapped with an award ceremony Wednesday night.
The Basque director’s fourth feature took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a film that’s currently in development. Producer Iker Ganuza of Spanish production outfit Lamia was on hand to accept the prize from the jury, which praised the film as “a story about both emerging and buried passions, approached with a very personal touch of sensibility.”
Speaking to Variety ahead of the Thessaloniki industry event, Rayo described his “sensual summer story” as “a reflection on the way in which the intervention of the human being or ‘climate change’ modifies the landscapes, habits and lives of ordinary people.” The director’s debut feature, “Two Brothers,...
The Basque director’s fourth feature took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a film that’s currently in development. Producer Iker Ganuza of Spanish production outfit Lamia was on hand to accept the prize from the jury, which praised the film as “a story about both emerging and buried passions, approached with a very personal touch of sensibility.”
Speaking to Variety ahead of the Thessaloniki industry event, Rayo described his “sensual summer story” as “a reflection on the way in which the intervention of the human being or ‘climate change’ modifies the landscapes, habits and lives of ordinary people.” The director’s debut feature, “Two Brothers,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean’s latest work, Întregalde, expertly plays with genre trappings to tell a grounded story of humanitarian impulses gone awry. Set in rural Transylvania as we follow a trio of aid workers who find themselves in an unfamiliar locale while night closes in, it’s an enveloping, precise study of cracking open the veneer of generosity––and one of the best ending shots this year.
Ahead of a theatrical release from Grasshopper Film beginning at Film Forum this Friday, I spoke with Muntean about the decade-long process of developing his project, carefully forming his characters, nature as a setting, humanitarian hypocrisy, and working with non-professional actor Luca Sabin.
The Film Stage: I saw that you had been developing this idea for about a decade, so I’m curious if you can talk about that process of first coming up with the idea and then when you knew...
Ahead of a theatrical release from Grasshopper Film beginning at Film Forum this Friday, I spoke with Muntean about the decade-long process of developing his project, carefully forming his characters, nature as a setting, humanitarian hypocrisy, and working with non-professional actor Luca Sabin.
The Film Stage: I saw that you had been developing this idea for about a decade, so I’m curious if you can talk about that process of first coming up with the idea and then when you knew...
- 3/17/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A lot gets lost in Radu Muntean’s fantastic “Întregalde.” Stuck in the mud as night falls in the thick of an increasingly sinister Romanian forest, people lose tempers, minds, control of their bowels, loyalties, ideals and maybe even a sense of themselves as decent, altruistic souls. But this uncannily gripping tragicomedy never loses your attention: Muntean, whose pedigree was established with 2010’s “Tuesday After Christmas,” but whose track record since has been more erratic than that of many of his Romanian New Wave peers, finds unexpectedly compelling new levels of scabrous humor and moving insight this time out. He is a filmmaker dynamically reborn amid the mulch and fallen leaves of the Transylvanian countryside, beside a stalled jeep that, like a Beckettian device, might be there but also might not.
In the back of the four-wheel-drive is Maria, who is riding with chatty, romantically frustrated Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and quick-tempered,...
In the back of the four-wheel-drive is Maria, who is riding with chatty, romantically frustrated Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and quick-tempered,...
- 10/15/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
A trailer for Romanian director Radu Muntean’s eighth film and the fourth to be selected for Cannes has dropped ahead of its screening at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight.
“Întregalde,” the first acquisition of Romanian distribution company Voodoo Films’ sales arm, is a tense and mud-splattered affair that explores the true nature of altruism.
The film follows a trio of Millennials on their end-of-year mission to deliver parcels to a series of remote villages in rural Transylvania: there’s earnest Maria (Maria Popistasu), sociable Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and SUV petrolhead Dan (Alex Bogdan).
The tone is set early on in an argument between a volunteer couple that Maria gets a lift with: Radu (the director in a cameo role) and Cristina (Carmen Lopazan), who chastises her boyfriend for feeling pleased with himself that an eight-year-old girl that he handed a tablet to remembered him from an earlier mission. She...
“Întregalde,” the first acquisition of Romanian distribution company Voodoo Films’ sales arm, is a tense and mud-splattered affair that explores the true nature of altruism.
The film follows a trio of Millennials on their end-of-year mission to deliver parcels to a series of remote villages in rural Transylvania: there’s earnest Maria (Maria Popistasu), sociable Ilinca (Ilona Brezoianu) and SUV petrolhead Dan (Alex Bogdan).
The tone is set early on in an argument between a volunteer couple that Maria gets a lift with: Radu (the director in a cameo role) and Cristina (Carmen Lopazan), who chastises her boyfriend for feeling pleased with himself that an eight-year-old girl that he handed a tablet to remembered him from an earlier mission. She...
- 7/6/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
The drama follows a group of people on a humanitarian mission in the mountains. One of the most prolific Romanian directors, Radu Muntean, is currently in post-production with his seventh feature, Întregalde (working title), a film that will explore the idea of generosity. The exclusively Romanian project is being produced by Dragoş Vîlcu through Multimedia Est, Muntean’s regular production company, and executive-produced by Oana Iancu. The movie is currently at the post-production stage, with a world premiere expected for next year. Muntean is reteaming with his regular writing partners, Răzvan Rădulescu and Alexandru Baciu, to tell a story about a group of people on a humanitarian mission, who arrive in an isolated region in Transylvania to gift the locals various goods. Besides a few quarrels and conflicts among the members of the group, all seems to go well for Maria (Maria Popistaşu) and Dan (Alex Bogdan), who share a car.
★★★☆☆ The subject of guilt is one that cinema often returns to for its potential to be expressed in inventive and thought-provoking ways. In Radu Muntean's pared-down and naturalistic One Floor Below (2015), he and co-screenwriters Alexandru Baciu and Razvan Radulescu choose to take a similar route to Michael Haneke's highly-regarded Hidden (2005) by giving corporeal form to the externalised spectre of remorse. "We need to lose some weight," says Sandu Patrascu (Teodor Corban) to his equally paunch dog Jerry as they jog around a park. His conscience is soon a far greater burden, however, in this absorbing investigation into the culpability of inaction.
Returning home with Jerry, Patrascu happens upon two of his neighbours in a heated argument but carries on up to the apartment he shares with his wife Olga (Oxana Moravec) and son Matei (Ionut Bora). The next day, the young woman from downstairs, Laura, is found dead,...
Returning home with Jerry, Patrascu happens upon two of his neighbours in a heated argument but carries on up to the apartment he shares with his wife Olga (Oxana Moravec) and son Matei (Ionut Bora). The next day, the young woman from downstairs, Laura, is found dead,...
- 9/11/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
One Floor Below
Director: Radu Muntean // Writers: Radu Muntean, Rãzvan Rãdulescu, Alexandru Baciu.
With his four previous features, this Romanian director was flying under the shadow of some of the more notable New Romanian Wave names until the premiere of his last title, 2010’s Tuesday, After Christmas, (we interviewed him here) unveiled in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. While it went home empty handed, its slow international roll out snagged Muntean an increased reputation, eclipsing the solid reception of previous titles like Summer Holiday (2008), The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) and Furia (2002). His latest, One Floor Below, stars Teodor Corban (from 12:08 East of Bucharest) and concerns a middle-aged man who is the sole witness to a domestic quarrel that ends in murder.
Cast: Teodor Corban, Iulian Postelnicu
Producers: Multimedia East’s Dragos Valcu (Tuesday, After Christmas), Les Films de l’Apres-midi’s Francois D’Artemare (Children of Sarajevo), Beck Film...
Director: Radu Muntean // Writers: Radu Muntean, Rãzvan Rãdulescu, Alexandru Baciu.
With his four previous features, this Romanian director was flying under the shadow of some of the more notable New Romanian Wave names until the premiere of his last title, 2010’s Tuesday, After Christmas, (we interviewed him here) unveiled in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. While it went home empty handed, its slow international roll out snagged Muntean an increased reputation, eclipsing the solid reception of previous titles like Summer Holiday (2008), The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) and Furia (2002). His latest, One Floor Below, stars Teodor Corban (from 12:08 East of Bucharest) and concerns a middle-aged man who is the sole witness to a domestic quarrel that ends in murder.
Cast: Teodor Corban, Iulian Postelnicu
Producers: Multimedia East’s Dragos Valcu (Tuesday, After Christmas), Les Films de l’Apres-midi’s Francois D’Artemare (Children of Sarajevo), Beck Film...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Romanian filmmakers provide masterclasses for London youth.
It is being billed as Romania's gifte to London in the year of the Olympics. East Meets East will see new wave filmmakers Radu Muntean, Alexandru Baciu and Catalin Cristutiu, plus award-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days star Anamaria Marinca, work with the city's disadvantaged youth to develop their skills and create two new short films.
The project is being run by the Romanian Cultural Institute in partnership with film and photography centre Four...
It is being billed as Romania's gifte to London in the year of the Olympics. East Meets East will see new wave filmmakers Radu Muntean, Alexandru Baciu and Catalin Cristutiu, plus award-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days star Anamaria Marinca, work with the city's disadvantaged youth to develop their skills and create two new short films.
The project is being run by the Romanian Cultural Institute in partnership with film and photography centre Four...
- 4/19/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
I’ll just fess up: Despite the fact that it’s in its 41st year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is something I’ve kind of never heard about until today. (Let’s blame it on a slip in my geography skills.) This ignorance on my part notwithstanding, taking a look at their initial lineup for this year — when the event runs from January 25th to February 5th — has left me mightily impressed.
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
- 1/6/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced the lineup for its main section, Spectrum: 72 features and documentaries from 32 countries, with descriptions from the Festival, running January 25 through February 5:
World premieres
Cornelia frente al espejo (Cornelia at Her Mirror) - Daniel Rosenfeld, Argentina, Hubert Bals Fund-supported film. A "meticulous and stylish film based on the story by Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993)." Roman Diary - Michael Pilz, Austria. A "meditative film featuring images of a park in Rome." Rua Aperana 52 - Júlio Bressane, Brazil. A "musical film about a street corner in Rio, edited together from old photos and the maker’s own films from the period 1957-2005." Lacan Palestine - Mike Hoolboom, Canada. A "found-footage essay on a complex country and its love-struck inhabitants." 38 témoins (38 Witnesses) - Lucas Belvaux, France, Belgium. Opening Film Iffr 2012. Le reste du monde (The Rest of the World) - Damien Odoul, France. A "family considers issues of identity and relationships.
World premieres
Cornelia frente al espejo (Cornelia at Her Mirror) - Daniel Rosenfeld, Argentina, Hubert Bals Fund-supported film. A "meticulous and stylish film based on the story by Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993)." Roman Diary - Michael Pilz, Austria. A "meditative film featuring images of a park in Rome." Rua Aperana 52 - Júlio Bressane, Brazil. A "musical film about a street corner in Rio, edited together from old photos and the maker’s own films from the period 1957-2005." Lacan Palestine - Mike Hoolboom, Canada. A "found-footage essay on a complex country and its love-struck inhabitants." 38 témoins (38 Witnesses) - Lucas Belvaux, France, Belgium. Opening Film Iffr 2012. Le reste du monde (The Rest of the World) - Damien Odoul, France. A "family considers issues of identity and relationships.
- 1/6/2012
- MUBI
The nominations for the 5th edition of Gopo, Romania's film industry honours, have been made publicly available during this week. As expected, Florin Şerban's first feature film, If I Want to Whistle I Whistle received the most nominations with 13, followed by Marian Crişan's debut film, Morgen, with 11 nominations, while Radu Muntean's Tuesday, after Christmas was nominated in 10 categories. The Best Film category includes the three mentioned titles above plus Andrei Ujică's The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu and Medal of Honor, a film by Peter Călin Netzer. For the Best Actress award compete Ada Condeescu (If I Want to Whistle I Whistle), Adriana Trandafir (Europolis), Maria Popistaşu (Tuesday, after Christmas), Mirela Oprişor (Tuesday, after Christmas) and Ozana Oancea (First of All, Felicia). Best Actor award will go to one of the following: Andras Hathazi (Morgen), George Piştereanu (If I Want to Whistle I Whistle), Mimi Brănescu (Tuesday, after Christmas), Victor Rebengiuc...
- 2/24/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Tuesday, After Christmas, and the other nominations for the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) have been announced. The 5th Annual Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) ”are the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (U.S.A.), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). They are presented by the Association for Romanian Film Promotion.” The full listing of the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) is presented below.
Best Film
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceau?escu (The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu)
Producer, Velvet Moraru; Director, Andrei Ujic?
Eu când vreau s? fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle)
Producer, C?t?lin Mitulescu, Daniel Mitulescu; Director, Florin ?erban
Mar?i, dup? Cr?ciun (Tuesday, After Christmas)
Producer, Drago? Vîlcu; Director, Radu Muntean
Medalia de onoare (Medal of Honour)
Producer, Liviu Marghidan; Director, Peter C?lin Netzer
Morgen
Producer, Anca Puiu; Director, Marian Cri?...
Best Film
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceau?escu (The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu)
Producer, Velvet Moraru; Director, Andrei Ujic?
Eu când vreau s? fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle)
Producer, C?t?lin Mitulescu, Daniel Mitulescu; Director, Florin ?erban
Mar?i, dup? Cr?ciun (Tuesday, After Christmas)
Producer, Drago? Vîlcu; Director, Radu Muntean
Medalia de onoare (Medal of Honour)
Producer, Liviu Marghidan; Director, Peter C?lin Netzer
Morgen
Producer, Anca Puiu; Director, Marian Cri?...
- 2/23/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. - I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. Here are three items that weren't on...
- 4/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. - I'm not sure where I was with my Cannes predictions (50 percent sounds about right), but I'm most glad about the predix that pan out on actual titles that I look forward in seeing - e.g. Lodge Kerrigan's French-produced next feature. I also got my predictions right on Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas and I had reported on David Verbeek's showing up in Cannes with R U There. Here are three items that weren't on...
- 4/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Constantin Popescu is currently shooting and is close to wrapping up his feature length directorial debut with a familiar face in some award winning samples of Romanian cinema in the lead role. - Constantin Popescu is currently shooting and is close to wrapping up his feature length directorial debut with a familiar face in some award winning samples of Romanian cinema in the lead role. Written by Razvan Radulescu and Alexandru Baciu (The Paper Will Be Blue), this is a contemporary, drama set during a 24-hour period that features a father played by Vlad Ivanov who is disconnected from his family, especially from his son. Filmneweurope reports that Principles of Life has picked up a good number of grants and is being lensed by California Dreamin's Liviu Marghidan. Among the five directors who participated in Tales from the Golden Age, the omnibus project devised by Cristian Mungiu...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
- Radu Muntean's Cannes entry Boogie, saw popular Romanian actor Dragos Bucur take on the role of the husband who after a a quarrel with the wife, hooks up with some old buddies and loses focus for an evening. Variety reports that Muntean's next feature will touch upon similar themes of guilt and “choices”. Scripted by Muntean, Alexandru Baciu and Razvan Radulescu, Tuesday, After Christmas will start shooting in November (they probably need some snow). Set one week before Christmas, "Tuesday" focuses on marital crisis -- that of Paul and Adriana, who've been married for 10 years and have an 8-year-old daughter. Paul decides to leave his wife for his mistress. He informs his wife, who gives him until the Tuesday after Christmas to tell his daughter.. Currently, Bucur is working on Peter Weir's The Way Back, but by all logic should take the lead role....
- 7/9/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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