Not a post in tribute to the Australian soap opera, but an announcement about London’s fifth Romanian Film Festival, running from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 April.
As with its Polish counterpart, it’s been growing apace over the years, though this time it’s as much to do with a surge in quality as any population increase. It’s at the Curzon Mayfair, and the full programme is listed here.
Feature film screenings include Cristian Nemescu’s tragically posthumous California Dreamin’ (Nesfarsit, 2007), Mircea Daneliuc’s The Cruise (Croaziera, 1981), Cristian Mungiu’s first feature Occident (2002) and Nae Carafil’s The Rest is Silence (Restul e tacere, 2008) plus feature-length documentaries: Dana Ranga’s Story (2003), Alexandru Solomon’s Cold Waves (Război pe calea undelor, 2007) and Razvan Georgescu’s Testimony (2008) and lots of shorts.
Sadly, it’s slap bang in the middle of my annual family holiday, so I can’t go to any of them, but I wish it well. (All links are to the relevant pages on the official site)