FESTIVALS: Child's Pose in Competition at MECEFF

01-09-2014

FESTIVALS: Child's Pose in Competition at MECEFF

By Iulia Blaga

Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer

MEDIAŞ: The 4th edition of Mediaş Central European Film Festival (2-6 September 2014), the only festival in Romania focusing on the Central European cinema, will screen more than 40 films including seven titles in the main competition coming from the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.

Beside the line-up composed of the winners of the national prizes in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, the programme has a special non-CEE guest, Spain, and it will show the work of Pere Portabella and a retrospective of Spanish films.

MECEFF will continue the tradition of the first editions showing Yiddish films in the old synagogue of Mediaş and it will screen a retrospective of the Romanian director Alexandru Tatos (1937-1990). The Festival's Director selection also includes three recent Romanian films.

The festivals pays tribute to Milos Forman, Miklos Jancso and Andrzej Wajda, screening their most representative films from the communist era in the Subversive When Made special section. The Panorama section screens recent films such as Soldier Jane by Daniel Hoesl and classics such as Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and The Shop on the Main Street (1965) by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos.

MECEFF is organized by Ecran Cinema Management, the Mediaş Town Hall, Romanian Cultural Institute, Romanian Ministry of Culture, Romanian Film Center, and the Târnave Region, in coproduction with Romanian public television.

Competition Line-up:
The Burning Bush (Czech Republic)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Produced by HBO Europe and Nutprodukce Production

Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing/Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert (Austria)
Directed by Hüseyin Tabak
Produced by DOR Film/Marangoz Film Production
Supported by Film Fonds Wien, bm:uk, Wien Kultur, Kultur Niederosterreich, Stadt Klosterneuburg

Dear Betrayed Friends/Drága besúgott barátaim (Hungary)
Directed by Sára Cserhalmi
Produced by KMH Film
Supported by Hungarian National Film Fund

Child's Pose/Poziţia copilului (Romania)
Directed by Călin Peter Netzer
Produced by Parada Film

Ida (Poland)
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Produced by Opus Film (Poland) and Phonex Film (Denmark), in association with Portobello Pictures (UK)
Supported by PISF

Izlet/A Trip (Slovenia)
Directed by Nejc Gazvoda
Produced by Perfo

Kandidat/The Candidate (Slovakia)
Directed by Jonáš Karásek
Produced by Azyl Production
Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund