Eight new domestic features will meet Romanian cinemagoers during the next few months. Previously the busiest season in terms of Romanian films (15 releases in 2013 and more than ten in 2014), autumn has lost some of its appeal with distributors: they have gradually started to release their films in spring, as was the case this year with Tudor Giurgiu’s Why Me? [+lire aussi :
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interview : Radu Jude
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interview : Corneliu Porumboiu
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But this season looks set to impress with a number of very interesting first features. Ana Lungu will release her Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrei Cohn
fiche film], after a world premiere in the Sarajevo IFF competition.

The season kicks off with Radu Muntean’s quiet psychological thriller One Floor Below [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], shown at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. The winner of a Special Mention at Karlovy Vary, Anca Damian’s animation The Magic Mountain [+lire aussi :
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The season will end with Dan Chişu’s independent dramedy Bucharest Non-Stop [+lire aussi :
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