The competition includes Ana Lungu's The Adventures of a Dutiful Daughter / Autroportretul unei fete cuminti, which had its world premiere in Rotterdam, and Grzegorz Jaroszuk's debut feature Kebab & Horoscope. The jury is composed of: Selma Mehadžić, Anjorka Strechel, Laurenţiu Damian, Feti Dautović and Edvinas Puksta.
Franco Nero is the special guest of the festival. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Vinterberg will be the closing film.
The Panorama section includes titles such as The Cut by Fatih Akin, Palo Alto by Gia Coppola, Abel Ferrra's Pasolini and 3 Hearts by Benoît Jacquot. The programme also includes a Hommage to Alain Resnais and special screenings including Joshua Oppenheimer's Look of Silence, It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks by Daniel Leconte, Pulp: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets by Florian Habicht and Claudiu Mitcu's The Network / Reţeaua, produced by Parada Film, Video Extrem and HBO.
The films will be screened in three venues: the Studio Cinema, the New Cinema of the Romanian Director within the Romanian Peasant Museum and the Elvira Popescu Cinema within the French Institute. Bucharest International Film Festival is organised by Fundaţia Charta under the Patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Radu of Romania, with the support of the National Film Center, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the National Patrimony.
Bucharest International Film Festival is one of the most prestigious national film festivals, as proven by the massive audience at its foregoing editions, with a total of 19,000 tickets sold (let alone the fact that students were entitled to free entrance), and positive reviews in the media, along with its unique identity and the complexity of its film categories.
The Lineup:
Far from Men / Loin des hommes (France)
Directed by David Oelhoffen
The Adventures of a Dutiful Daughter / Autroportretul unei fete cuminţi (Romania)
Directed by Ana Lungu
Produced by Mandragora
Hyena (UK)
Directed by Gerard Johnson
Kebab &Horoscope (Poland)
Directed by Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Produced by Mental Disorder 4
Coproduced by: Zentropa International Poland, Grupa Warszawa, Dreamsound, Fixafilm, Koi Studio, LuksFilm, Projektor - Spoty Medialne
Supported by the Polish Film Institute
Cold in July (USA)
Directed by Jim Mickle
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (USA)
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour
