20 years after the fall of the wall : Romanian Film Festival of Montreal
December 3rd to 6th, 2009
CinéRobothèque of NFB (1564, St. Denis st., Metro Berri-UQAM)
Thursday, December 3rd18:30 – Secvente/Sequences
Director: Alexandru Tatos (Romania, 1982, 90 minutes, V.O., French ST)
A compelling story made of three independent sequences, all dealing with happenings on a film set, small joys and big troubles in a country where creation is ruled by ideology.
With: Geo Barton, Mircea Diaconu, Emilia Dobrin, Dragos Pîslaru, Alexandru Tatos
Film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR and director PETRE BOKOR will be presents for a evocation of ALEXANDRU TATOS’ s memory
20:00 - Weekend cu mama / Week-end with my mother
Director: Stere Gulea (Romania, 2009, 90 minutes, V.O., English ST)
With: Medeea Marinescu, Adela Popescu, Tudor Istodor, Ion Sapdaru, Gheorghe Dinica
A realistic look on one of the gravest social problems in contemporary Romania: the children and teenagers whose parents left the country to work abroad. Is one week-end enough to get back something that you left 15 years ago?
Actress MEDEEA MARINESCU, director STERE GULEA and film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR will be presents for Q&A’s
Friday, December 4th18:30 – Piata Universitatii/University Square (documentary)
Director : Stere Gulea (Romania, 1991, 72 minutes, V.O., English ST)
A testimonial about the fight with history that took place in downtown Bucharest between April 22 and June 13, 1990, a reason for hope at that time, a lesson of freedom nowadays.
With: Petre Mihai Bacanu, Ana Blandiana, Silviu Brucan, Ion Caramitru, Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman
Director STERE GULEA will be present for Q&A’s
20:00 - Schimb valutar/ Exchange
Director : Nicolae Margineanu (Romania, 2008, 100 minutes, V.O., French ST)
With: Aliona Munteanu, Cosmin Selesi, Valentin Uritescu, Andi Vasluianu
An unemployed worker loses all his family savings when he gets cheated while exchanging local currency in dollars. While trying to get his money back, his life takes a strange turn. One aspect of the Romanian people’s fight with integrating market economy, described with realism, discretion and a touch of humor.
Actress ALIONA MUNTEANU and film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR will be presents for Q&A’s
Saturday, December 5th 14:30 - Maria Mirabela
Director : Ion Popescu – Gopo (Romania, 1981, 63 minutes, V.O. Romana, French ST)
With: Medeea Marinescu, Gilda Manolescu, Ion Popescu – Gopo
A fable-fairytale by the Romanian animation master – Gopo, in which two little girls meet all kind of animated enchanted characters: a frog traped in ice, a firefly that sparks instead of glimmering and a butterfly that cannot fly. Maria and Mirabela will help their new friends by soaring bravely into the depth of the wood.
Actress MEDEEA MARINESCU and film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR will be presents for Q&A’s
15:30 – Fotograme/ Videograms of a Revolution (documentary)
Director: Andrei Ujica (Romania, 1992, 107 minutes, V.O., French ST)
A landmark film on the relationship between political power and the media in Europe during the events of 1989.
Film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR will be present for Q&A’s
17:30 – Booby and Beeka (documentary)
Director: Daniel Bucur & Stefan Anastasiu (Canada, 2007, 15 minutes, V.O., English ST)
A life long journey, a discourse about art and a witness about exile, all together in one breath…
Director DANIEL BUCUR and film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR will be presents for Q&A’s
Stare de fapt/ State of things
Director : Stere Gulea (Romania, 2009, 83 minutes, V.O., English ST)
With: Oana Pellea, Mircea Rusu, Razvan Vasilescu, Dan Condurache, Luminita Gheorghiu
A young nurse discovers a politically tainted crime and sticks to her testimony, while her boyfriend, a doctor, accepts to keep silent. A film about principles and respect towards our own conscience
Director STERE GULEA and film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR will be presents for Q&A’s
19:30 – Marilena
Director: Mircea Daneliuc (Romania, 2008, 120 minutes, V.O., French ST)
With: Cecilia Bârbora, Cornel Palade, Sergei Mizil, Anca Sigartau
The gloomy story of Marilena, harassed by her boss and waiting for news from her boyfriend who immigrated to Canada, while she starts a relationship with his best friend. Film adaptation of the director’s novel “Marilena and a few sensualities”.
Film critic IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR will be present for Q&A’s
Sunday, December 6th18:00 - Peter Krausz – No man’s land (documentary)
Director: Doina Harap (Canada, 2009, 52 minutes, V.O. Romanian and French, French ST)
This documentary essay invites the viewer to meditate on the arbitrary nature of borders by accompanying multimedia artist Peter Krausz, Canadian of Romanian origin, through his creative process. He sees borders as fractures, arbitrary divisions imposed on the landscape.
Director DOINA HARAP will be present for Q&A’s
19:00 – Filantropica/ Philanthropy
Director: Nae Caranfil (Romania, 2002, 100 minutes, V.O., French ST)
With: Mircea Diaconu, Gheorghe Dinica, Florin Zamfirescu, Mara Nicolescu, Viorica Voda
Drama or comedy? The story of a highschool teacher on a black humor background. Attracted to a girl much too young and flirty, the anti-hero tries to increase his income and gets to know the twists and turns of the urban mafia so well that he can’t leave it anymore.
ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTREAL 2009
Tickets can be purchased at the NFB CineRobotheque (1564, St. Denis st., Metro Berri-UQAM)
Opening and closing Gala: 15 $
General Admission: 10 $
Abonnement (5 screenings): 40 $
General Abonnement (12 screenings): 60 $
Students, age d’or: 7 $
www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/cinerobotheque/