REMINDER:
Come to see on December 1-3
at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City
The New Wave in Romanian Cinema
TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION
In the wake of the US critical success of Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, the festival aims to introduce to the New York audience other new voices of the Romanian cinema. These young directors, which bring a fresh view on both the recent past and the present-day life of Romania, have enjoyed great success at major festivals all over the world. They may well be the long-expected revolution in post-1989 Romanian cinema.
The three-day festival will feature:
The Way I Spent the End of the World
Dir. Catalin Mitulescu
FRI, Dec. 1, 6:00 pm (Festival Opening celebrating the National Day of Romania; invitation only). Introduction by Peter Scarlet, Executive Director of Tribeca Film Festival, Corina Suteu, Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and Mihai Chirilov, Director of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF)
SAT, Dec. 2, 3:00 pm
Both screenings will be followed by Q&A with film director Catalin Mitulescu
Love Sick
Dir. Tudor Giurgiu
SAT, Dec. 2, 9:00 pm
SUN, Dec. 3, 2:00 pm
Both screenings will be followed by Q&A with film director Tudor Giurgiu
The Paper Will Be Blue
Dir. Radu Muntean
SUN, Dec. 3, 6:00 pm
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Dir. Cristi Puiu
SUN, Dec. 3, 8:30 pm (Festival Closing)
With a short introduction by film critic Alex Leo Serban
SHORTS 1: SAT, Dec. 2, 6:30 pm
Marilena from P7, Dir. Cristian Nemescu
Humanitarian Aid, Dir. Hanno Hofer
Cigarettes and Coffee, Dir. Cristi Puiu
The Apartament, Dir. Constantin Popescu
SHORTS 2: SUN, Dec. 3, 4:00 pm
Liviu’s Dream, Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu
C Block Story, Dir. Cristian Nemescu
Traffic, Dir. Catalin Mitulescu
A Lineman’s Cabin, Dir. Constantin Popescu
Followed by Q&a with film director Catalin Mitulescu
SURPRISE FILM
SAT, Dec. 2, 7:00 pm (invitation only)y)
Want to know more? Write to icrny@icrny.org
The festival will also feature a special event:
SAT, Dec 2, 5:30 pm
BOOK LAUNCH: What was it like? Something like this… Memories from the days of (Romanian) communism
(Cum era? Cam asa…. Amintiri din anii comunismul (romanesc))
(Curtea Veche Publishing House, Bucharest, 2006. In Romanian)
A collection of 24 writers reminiscing life under communism, edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu.
Introduction by editor Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Canadian-Romanian scholar, University of Western Ontario: „The present as a one sec stand”
All screenings will take place at
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street (at Laight Street)
New York, NY 10013
(Subway: 1,9, A,C,E, trains to Canal Street)
ADMISSION $7. Tickets are now on sale at www.tribecacinemas.com.
Learn more about the films and their directors by downloading the film festival brochure
(in pdf format, 600 Kb).
Talking About a Revolution is an initiative of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York in cooperation with TIFF – Transilvania International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and the National Center of Cinema, Bucharest.
The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York (ICRNY)
200 East 38th Street, New York, NY – 10016
Tel: 212-687-0180 – Fax: 212-687-0181
icrny@icrny.org; www.icrny.org
ICRNY is the antenna of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest www.icr.ro