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Child's Pose passes 100,000 admissions in Romania and opens TIFF's Romanian Days sidebar

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- The Golden Berlin Bear is only one of the 11 features in the most popular Transylvania IFF sidebar

Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose [+see also:
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, winner of the Berlinale top award in February, passed 100,000 admissions in Romania, the film’s distributor Parada Film has recently announced. With these numbers, the Parada Film production becomes the most successful Romanian production of the past 11 years, with only two films (Sam Irvin’s Garcea si oltenii - 251,000 admissions and Nae Caranfil’s Philanthropy - 112,000 admissions, both in 2012) being more popular in the past 18 years. Bought in several territories all over the world, Child’s Pose will premiere in Italy on June 13 and in Switzerland on June 25.

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Until then, Netzer’s film opens the most popular sidebar at TIFF: the three days of screenings of Romanian Days start today, with ten recent domestic features running for the sidebar’s awards.

Without important new films in competition, this year’s Romanian Days sidebar is expected to compensate low expectations with nice surprises. Dan Chisu’s Déjà vu tells the story of a middle-aged man who decides to leave his wife, while Alexandru Maftei explores love beyond death in Miss Christina (pictured), an adaptation of a fantasy novella written by Mircea Eliade. British journalist and DJ Tom Wilson directs The Bucuresti Experiment, a fake documentary about a fictive Securitate experiment, hailed as possibly the most original film in this year’s Romanian Days. Alexandra Gulea brings to Cluj family drama Matei Child Miner [+see also:
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after a world premiere in Rotterdam and Iulia Rugina explores troubled relationships in her feature debut Love Building [+see also:
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Documentary Here…I Mean There (Laura Capatana Juller) and fiction features Domestic [+see also:
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(Adrian Sitaru), Rocker [+see also:
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(Marian Crisan), A Month in Thailand [+see also:
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(Paul Negoescu) and A Farewell to Fools [+see also:
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(Bogdan Dreyer) compete for the sidebar’s awards, announced on June 8.

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