ROMANIA: Country Report 2016

It was a very good year for Romania, with a record number of films selected and awarded in Cannes and new European additions to the Cinema Law approved at the…
11-02-2017

OBITUARY: Romanian Director Radu Gabrea

BUCHAREST: Romanian film director Radu Gabrea passed away at age 79 on 9 February 2017. He was the founder of the Mediaș Central European Film Festival (MECEFF) in 2012.
10-02-2017

Producer Oana Iancu Takes The Deer to the Berlinale Co-production Market

BUCHAREST: Romanian producer Oana Iancu is doing double duty at the 67th Berlinale as producer of Călin Peter Netzer’s Competition film Ana, mon amour (Parada Film) and as producer of…
09-02-2017

Romania’s anim’est Becomes OSCAR® Qualifying Film Festival

BUCHAREST: The anim’est International Animation Film Festival has been awarded the status of OSCAR® qualifying film festival by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
27-01-2017

Graduation and Toni Erdmann Nominated for César Film Awards

PARIS: Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation and Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann have been nominated for the César Film Awards in the foreign film category. The 42th edition of the César Film Awards…
26-01-2017

Good Opening for 6.9 on the Richter Scale in Romania

BUCHAREST: Nae Caranfil’s comedy 6.9 on the Richter Scale had 12,606 admissions in its opening weekend, a very good result for a country where attendance to domestic comedies took off…
26-01-2017

Admissions to Domestic Films almost Doubled in Romania

BUCHAREST: Admissions to domestic films almost doubled in 2016, thanks to the domestic comedies #selfie69 by Cristina Iacob and Two Lottery Tickets by Paul Negoescu. Box office increased by 10.21…
23-01-2017

Unites States of Love Hits Romanian Cinemas

WARSAW: Tomasz Wasilewski’s drama United States of Love was released in Romanian cinemas by Transilvania Film on 20 January 2017. The film has recently been released in Denmark and Hungary…
20-01-2017

OBITUARY: Romanian Actor Ion Besoiu

BUCHAREST: Romanian actor Ion Besoiu passed away on 18 January 2017 at the age of 85. He was one of the most popular Romanian film and stage actors.
19-01-2017

Ionut Vulpescu Re-appointed Romanian Minister of Culture

BUCHAREST: Ionuţ Vulpescu has been re-appointed Minister of Culture at the beginning of 2017, after the Social Democratic Party (PSD) won the parliamentary elections in November 2016. He promised that…
11-01-2017

Q & A with Ada Solomon, the Romanian Executive Producer of Toni Erdmann

BUCHAREST: Ada Solomon from Romania’s HiFilm Productions talked to FNE about working as an executive producer for Toni Erdmann and the perspectives of international coproductions with Romania created by the…
09-01-2017

GRANTS: Romania Distributes Almost 4.5 m EUR at Its Second Session in 2016

BUCHAREST: Romanian Film Centre distributed 4,439,766 EUR / 21,440,000 RON at its second session in 2016. Documentaries by Radu Jude and Alexander Nanau, and new feature film by Agnes Kocsis…
13-12-2016

Cinema City Opens Its Third Multiplex in Romania in 2016

PIATRA NEAMȚ: Cinema City opens in the town of Piatra Neamţ its third multiplex in 2016 and wraps the year with a total investment of 21 m USD / approx.…
09-12-2016

Romania Approves New Film Law

BUCHAREST: The Romanian government approved an emergency ordinance regarding the film industry shortly before the parliamentary elections set for 11 December 2016. Most of the articles of the draft proposed…
01-12-2016

PRODUCTION: Cristina Iacob Preps Confessions of a Teenager

BUCHAREST: Romanian writer/director Cristina Iacob is in preparation with another teen film, Confessions of a Teenager / Suge-o, Ramona!, following her box office hits #selfie and #selfie 69, which topped…
30-11-2016

Romania and Poland Partner with European Platform Less Is More

BUCHAREST: Romania's Asociatia Culturala Control N and Transilvania IFF together with Poland's Krakow Festival Office are the CEE partners of the script development European platform Less Is More (LIM), whose…
28-11-2016

Film Phone Application Launched in Romania

BUCHAREST: The first interactive phone application dedicated to art house films has been launched in Romania. The application called Călăuza / The Stalker will inform audiences about art cinema programmes…
24-11-2016

Two Romanian Comedies Cash in Nearly One Million Euro

BUCHAREST: Two Romanian comedies released this autumn, #selfie 69 by Cristina Iacob and Two Lottery Tickets by Paul Negoescu, are topping the domestic box office, together taking in 927,129 EUR…
03-11-2016

FESTIVALS: Changa Revisited Wins the 23rd ASTRA Film Festival

SIBIU: Changa Revisited by Peter Biella and Leonard Kammerling was awarded best film in the international competition of the 23rd edition of ASTRA Film Festival (17-23 October 2016) in Sibiu,…
24-10-2016

PRODUCTION: Sion Siono Shoots Untitled Fantasy in Cluj-Napoca

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Japanese director Sion Sono is currently shooting an untitled fantasy series in Cluj-Napoca, a town he fell in love with after visiting it as a guest of the 15th…
18-10-2016