The Festival is organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute together with the European Commission Representantion in Romania, under the patronage of EUNIC and with the support of the embassies and cultural centres of the European countries.
This year the festival is celebrating the Greek presidency of the European Union with a concert of Yorgos Nousis and the opening screening of Miss Violence by Alexandros Avranas. The director is a guest of the festival together with the actress Eleni Roussinou. The festival will close with the Austrian film Soldier Jane/Soldate Jeannette by Daniel Hoesl.
The Romanian director Adrian Sitaru (Best Intentions) is the honorary ambassador of the festival this year. The Romanian selection includes the documentaries Where Are You Bucharest ?/Bucureşti, unde eşti? by Vlad Petri and Songs for a Museum/Cântece pentru un muzeu by Eliza Zdru, Igor Cobileanski's feature The Unsaved/La limita de jos a cerului, and also short films by Adrian Sitaru and by students from the National University of Theatre and Film I.L.Caragiale.
The selection of the festival (long films):
Miss Violence by Alexandros Avranas (Greece)
A Trip/Izlet by Nejc Gazvoda (Slovenia), produced by PERFO Production
The Don Juans/Donšajni by Jiri Menzel (Czech Republic), produced by MediaPro Pictures
The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Greece) by Elina Psykou
Shell (GB) by Scott Graham
It Was the Son/È stato il figlio (Italy) by Daniele Cipri
Songs for a Museum/Cântece pentru un muzeu (Romania) by Eliza Zdru
Granny's Funeral/Adieu Berthe – L'enterrement de mémé (France/Belgium) by Bruno Podalydès
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl Loura /Singularidades de uma Rapariga (Portugal) by Manoel de Oliveira
The Shooter/Skytten (Denmark) by Annette K. Olesen
A Gun in Each Hand/Una pistola en cada mano (Spain) by Cesc Gay
Love Loves Coincidences/Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever (Turkey) by Ömer Faruk Sorak, produced by Böcek Yapim
Heavenly Shift/Isteni Mûszak (Hungary) by Márk Bodzsár, produced by Unio Film
Kinshasa Kids (Belgium) by Marc-Henri Wajnberg
Fish N' Chips (Cyprus/Greece) by Elias Demetriou, produced by Ammos Films and Pan Entertainment and Film Blades, in coproduction with ERT S.A., the Greek Film Center and Multichoice Hellas-Nova
Me, Myself and Mum/Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! (France/Belgium) by Guillaume Gallienne
McCullin (documentary, GB) by David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Tad, the Lost Explorer/Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones (animation, Spain) by Enrique Gato
The Ghost of Piramida (documentary, Denmark) by Andreas Koefoed
Vegetarian Cannibal/Ljudožder vegetarijanac (Croatia) by Branko Schmidt, produced by Telefilm d.o.o.
The Marathon (Nederlands) by Diederick Koopal
Germaine (Belgium) by Frank van Mechelen
September (Greece) by Penny Panayotopoulou
The Last Black Sea Pirates /Poslednite chernomorski pirate (documentary, Bulgaria) by Svetoslav Stoyanov, produced by Agitprop
Where Are You Bucharest ?/Bucureşti, unde eşti? (documentary, Romania) by Vlad Petri, produced by Vlad Petri (http://www.bucurestithemovie.ro/)
A Magnificent Haunting/Magnifica presenza (Italy) by Ferzan Özpetek
The Unsaved/La limita de jos a cerului (Romania) by Igor Cobileanski, produced by Saga Film
Max Beckmann (documentary, Germany) by Michael Trabitzsch
True Story of Papusza/Papusza (Poland) by Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze, produced by Argomedia in co-production with Telewizja Polska, Canal+ Polska and Studio Filmowe KADR
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage/21 tapaa pilata avioliitto (Finland) by Johanna Vuoksenmaa, produced by Dionysos Films
Call Girl (Sweden) by Mikael Marcimain
Journey to Portugal/Viagem a Portugal (Portugal) by Sérgio Tréfaut
Soldier Jane/Soldate Jeannette (Austria) by Daniel Hoesl. A European Film Conspiracy production (http://www.soldatejeannette.com/)
