The main character of Dogs/Câini is Roman, a young man from the city who goes to a remote village by the Ukranian border in order to sell the land he inherited from his late grandfather only to find that his grandfather was a local crime lord.
“For me the scariest aspect of violence is not its expression but the intimate mechanism and the moral values which are leading people to commit murder,” Mirică said. He also wrote the script.
Marcela Ursu is producing through 42Km Film in coproduction with Elie Meirovitz through the French company EZ Films and Titus Kreyenberg through the German company unafilm.
The project was awarded Prix ARTE at Cinelink- Sarajevo IFF in August 2013, and it was selected to l’Atelier de la Cinéfondation, Cannes 2014, to Script&Pitch at Torino Film Lab 2013 and also at the Coproduction Village in Les Arcs 2013.
The budget is 1m EUR, Ursu told FNE. If the project receives funding from the National Centre for Cinema this spring, shooting will be late summer 2014 and the film will be finished by spring 2015. Romanian co-financing is expected, as well as an international sales agent.
Born in 1978, Mirică directed several short films including Bora Bora (2011) which was awarded Best European short film at Premiers Plans in Angers.
Production Information
42Km Film
Str. Hristo Botev, nr.34, et.2, ap.3
Sector 3, Bucuresti
030238, Romania
www.42kmfilm.com
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Marcela Ursu phone: +040741047116
EZ Films14 rue Mandar
75002 Paris
France
Elie Meirovitz: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Unafilm
Köln office
Alteburger Str. 2
D – 50678 Köln, Germany
Phone: +49 221 3480 280
Berlin office
Bozener Str. 13-14
D – 10825 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 6630 7220
www.unafilm.de
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Credit
Director: Bogdan Mirică
Script: Bogdan Mirică
