Aferim! With Best Domestic Opening in 13 Years

BUCHAREST: Radu Jude's third feature, Aferim! opened in Romania on 13 March selling 20,039 tickets in the first weekend and beating the record set in 2013 by Calin Peter Netzer's…
17-03-2015

Why Me? to Travel Troughout Romania

BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu’s political drama Why Me?/De ce eu? will be released in more than 60 Romanian cinemas on 27 February and in Bulgaria at the end of March 2015…
20-02-2015

HBO Romania Opens Script Contest

BUCHAREST: HBO Romania launched a script contest for original series. The winner will be announced on 24 August 2015 and will receive 2,500 USD.
18-02-2015

FNE at Berlinale 2015: Romanian Films in Berlin

Romanian Film Center: Stand No. G1 | Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau. Come and see us at EFM 2015.
08-02-2015

Romanian VoD Service Seenow Saw Good Results in 2014

BUCHAREST: Seenow, the first Romanian service of live TV and VoD available on all screens, had 19,564,591 viewers in 2014.
29-01-2015

FNE Country Profile: Romania

After a gap in funding, production resumed in 2014, but the crisis was visible in the slow pace of foreign film productions shooting in Romania. New multiplexes opened and new…
15-12-2014

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2014: Anca Damian Preps In Perfect Health

COTTBUS: Romanian writer/director/producer Anca Damian is moving into preproduction with a dramatic feature film inspired by the sudden and unexpected death of her father, In Perfect Health.
12-11-2014

Romanian director Iulia Rugina in Postproduction with a Box Office Hit Sequel

WARSAW: Another Love Building is a sequel to Romania's 2013 box office hit Love Building written by Iulia Rugină, Oana Răsuceanu and Ana Agopian. "Our first feature project was very…
21-10-2014

FESTIVALS: Maidan Wins ASTRA

SIBIU: Director Sergei Loznitsa received the Trophy for Best Film for his full-length documentary Maidan at the 21st ASTRA Film Festival which wrapped 11 October.
13-10-2014

FESTIVALS: ASTRA Film Festival Kicks Off in Sibiu

SIBIU: The XXI edition of ASTRA Film Festival (6-12 October) will screen 120 documentaries from 40 countries in a programme including four competitive sections.
06-10-2014

FESTIVALS: Eastern Realities at the Astra Film Festival in Sibiu

SIBIU: The Astra Film Festival, will take place from 6 - 12 October this year in Sibiu, Romania. A highlight of the festival is the Central and Eastern Europe Documentary…
22-09-2014

First CEE Oscar Contenders Announced

Poland, Hungary and Romania are among the first countries to select the films that will represent them in the Oscar foreign film category.
15-08-2014

First Bollywood Film Shoots in Romania

BUCHAREST: Director Binoy Gandhi is shooting an untitled Bollywood film on location in Romania according to local Indian media reports.
08-08-2014

HBO Europe Producing Drama Series in Romania

BUCHAREST: HBO Europe is beginning production on an eight-part, 45 minute TV series Umbre (Small Time Gangster) in Romania in early June.
27-05-2014

Romanian Cinema in Cannes 2014

The Romanian Film Center is happy to announce its attendance at the Cannes MARCHE DU FILM with 5 market premieres not to be missed:
13-05-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Award for Romanian Documentary

The Wellness Project received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Prize at goEast.
25-04-2014

FNE at Berlinale 2014: Romanian Films in Berlin

Five Romanian films will be presented at Berlinale and the European Film Market 2014.
05-02-2014

FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Romania

Romania continued to garner international acclaim for domestic production despite a gap in funding, which is likely to affect the quantity of Romanian films coming onto the market in the…
19-12-2013

GRANTS: Bulgaria Supports Three Romanian Projects

The Bulgarian National Film Center has selected three Romanian projects for minority co-production support: Nae Caranfil’s 6.9 on the Richter Scale, produced by Christian Mungiu’s Mobra Films, Tudor Giurgiu's Christian,…
16-12-2013