Join us for this rare opportunity to see where the much praised Romanian cinematic revolution came from and where it may be heading! The second edition of the Romanian Film Festival in New York - Romanian Cinema: The Golden Age - will take place at Tribeca Cinemas from November 29 to December 2.

It will showcase the Romanian premieres of 2007 (among which the two major winners at Cannes Film Festival), documentary films, shorts by upcoming filmmakers and some classics of the Romanian cinema. The screenings will be followed by Q&A with the film directors and actors and will be introduced by Romanian and American film critics. The festival is an initiative of RCINY in collaboration with Transilvania International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival, and with the support of the Romanian National Center for Cinema. Curator: Mihai Chirilov.

THU, Nov 29

7 pm
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Dir. Cristian Mungiu, 2007, 113 min
This year’s sensation at Cannes, winner of the Palme D’Or, highly praised film around the world and one of the favorites for the Foreign Film Oscar. A film about choice in communist Romania, a modern classic that will stay with you long after you've left the theater. SOLD OUT!

FRI, Nov 30

6 pm
The Short Films of Cristian Mungiu, 80 min
Nothing by chance (1999), Zapping (2000), The Firemen’s Choir (2000), Turkey Girl (2005).
The ecstatic critical reaction to Mungiu's second feature has elevated the director to the first rank of international filmmakers. But what films was he doing a few years ago?


6:30 pm
Short Films 1, 91 min
In the Morning (d. Radu Jude, 2007), Last Day of December (d. Bogdan George Apetri, 2006), Waves (d. Adrian Sitaru, 2007), The Boxing Lesson (d. Alexandru Mavrodineanu, 2007), Sandpit #186 (d. Adina Pintilie, George Chiper, 2006). Works of emerging directors you might want to check out before they become really famous.


8 pm
California Dreamin’ (endless)
Dir Cristian Nemescu, 2007, 155 min
New York Premiere co-presented with Tribeca Film Festival
A village station master blocks a train filled with American marines and military equipment for lack of legitimate papers. Winner of Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2007, the film will be introduced by leading actors Armand Assante and Razvan Vasilescu. SOLD OUT!


8:30 pm
Children of the Decree
Dir Florin Iepan, 2005, 68 min
Romanian dictator Ceausescu wanted six million ‘New Men’ for his communist utopia, so in 1967 he gave a Decree banning birth control and abortion.


SAT, Dec 1

12:30 pm
Jacob
Dir Mircea Daneliuc, 1988, 117 min
Part of our "Revisiting the Classics" section, Jacob tells the story of a basically decent and honest man that reacts with increased tension to the brutal atmosphere of the miners' town in which he lives.


1:30 pm
Short Films 2, 94 min
Exam (d. Paul Negoescu, 2007), Friday Around Eleven (d. Iulia Rugina, 2006), CARNE (d. Miruna Boruzescu, 2006), Bricostory (d. Andreea Paduraru, 2007), Sasha, Grisha & Ioan (d. Igor Cobileanski, 2006), The Tube with a Hat (d. Radu Jude, 2007).


3 pm
California Dreamin’ (endless)
Dir. Cristian Nemescu, 2007, 155 min
Co-presented with Tribeca Film Festival
A village station master blocks a train filled with American marines and military equipment for lack of legitimate papers. Winner of Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2007, the film will be introduced by leading actors Armand Assante and Razvan Vasilescu.


3:30 pm
The Great Communist Bank Robbery
Dir. Alexandru Solomon, 2004, 85 min
A political detective story about a strange robbery at the Romanian National Bank in communist times. Caught and sentenced to death, the burglars reenacted their crime for a television film before being killed.


5:30 pm
Children of the Decree
Dir Florin Iepan, 2005, 68 min
Romanian dictator Ceausescu wanted six million ‘New Men’ for his communist utopia, so in 1967 he gave a Decree banning birth control and abortion.


6:30 pm
The War for Independence
Dir. Grigore Brezeanu & Aristide Demetriade, 1912, 80 min
Special screening with a live soundtrack by Bogman
The first Romanian feature film, a “super-production” bringing together famous theatre actors, as well as more than 80.000 extras. Its making is the subject of Nae Caranfil’s most recent film, The Rest Is Silence, also presented in the festival.

8 pm
The Short Films of Cristian Mungiu, 80 min
Nothing by chance (1999); Zapping (2000); The Firemen’s Choir (2000); Turkey Girl (2005)
The ecstatic critical reaction to Mungiu's second feature has elevated the director to the first rank of international filmmakers. But what films was he doing a few years ago?

8:30 pm
The Rest Is Silence
Dir. Nae Caranfil, 2007, 140 min
US Premiere. Lavishly styled, the film vividly recreates turn-of-the-century Bucharest and the dream of a film that set into motion the soon century old Romanian cinematic tradition. Followed by Q&A with the director and producer Cristian Comeaga.

SUN, Dec 2

1 pm
Occident
Dir. Cristian Mungiu, 2002, 105 min
The first feature of the acclaimed Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, a bitter and absurd comedy on the alluring myth of the West among young Romanians.



1:30 pm
The Rest Is Silence
Dir. Nae Caranfil, 2007, 140 min
Lavishly styled, the film vividly recreates turn-of-the-century Bucharest and the dream of a film that set into motion the soon century old Romanian cinematic tradition. Followed by Q&A with the director and producer Cristian Comeaga.


3 pm
Short Films 1, 91 min
Works of emerging directors you might want to check out before they become really famous.

4:30 pm
The Journey/Morometii
Dir. Stere Gulea, 1987, 151 min
A remarkable adaptation of Marin Preda’s eponymous novel, centered around a Socratic character and his family in a remote Romanian village, the film celebrates this year its 20th anniversary.

5 pm
For God’s Sake
Dir. Tatiana Niculescu Bran, Mirel Bran, Ionut Teianu, 2007, 44 min
“Crucified by fellow nuns and a priest, a young girl dies during a ritual of exorcism performed in a remote Romanian monastery.” Thus read the headlines in dozens of newspapers around the world in June 2005. But what is fact and what is fiction in this sensational tale? This story was also the starting point of the theatre workshop carried within the Andrei Serban Traveling Academy this Sep in NYC.

6:30 pm
Short Films 2, 94 min
Works of emerging directors you might want to check out before they become really famous.




7:30 pm
Reenactment
Dir. Lucian Pintilie, 1968, 100 min
Two students drink too much one evening and break a window. A policeman, a judge, and a film crew take them back to the crime scene to film a state-sponsored documentary about alcoholism. Banned by the authorities for 32 years, this is considered by many to be the best of the Romanian classics.


Preceded by:
Short History
Dir. Ion Popescu Gopo, 1956, 10 min
The first Romanian film to have won the Palme D’Or in Cannes - in 1957for Best Short Film.




8:30 pm
The Great Communist Bank Robbery
Dir. Alexandru Solomon, 2004, 85 min
A political detective story about a strange robbery at the Romanian National Bank in communist times. Caught and sentenced to death, the burglars reenacted their crime for a television film before being killed.

MON, Dec 3

7:30 pm | VENUE: Romanian Cultural Institute (200 East 38th St., New York, NY 10016)!
ROUNDTABLE: Romanian Cinema: THE GOLDEN AGE?
A wrap up event gathering the Romanian filmmakers, critics and producers invited to the festival, the roundtable will provide food for thought and some answers to all those eager to better understand the recent renaissance of Romanian cinema.
Moderated by Corina Şuteu, Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute

FREE ADMISSION.