11/09/2013 - As many as eight Romanian films are scheduled for domestic release. Six of them are first features

Released on August 23, Stere Gulea's I Am an Old Communist Hag [+see also:
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Iulia Rugina's Love Building [+see also:
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September 20 comes with Corneliu Porumboiu's third feature When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism [+see also:
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Bogdan Mustaţă's surreal Lupu [+see also:
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Carmen [+see also:
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