The Connecticut Film Festival continues and expands this year its focus on both the independent film and education, with more than 130 of the world’s top independent films and over 100 educational events, as well as workshops and panels on every aspect of the industry from creative and production to marketing and legal.

Starting this year, it also enlarges its focus on celebrating the accomplishments of multicultural filmmakers, with the inaugural program highlighting documentary filmmakers from Romania. 

With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute, CTFF will present this year a crop of Romanian recent documentaries: Bar de Zi and Other Stories, dir. Corina Radu; Cold Waves, dir. Alexandru Solomon; Testimony, dir. Razvan Georgescu.

Their screenings will be accompanied by a panel on the use of different aesthetic approaches on documentary filmmaking, with the participation of directors Razvan Georgescu and Corina Radu.

Boogie, the last production of Radu Muntean [The Paper Will Be Blue], winner of the Award For Best Screenwriter at the 2008 Hamptons IFF, will also reach Connecticut audiences during the festival.