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Romania International Film Festival to be held in Bucharest, Sept. 27 - Oct. 7
The 8th edition of the annual Romania International Film Festival (Ro-IFF) will be held Spetember 27 - October 7 at the Union Hall of Romania's Film Library in Bucharest, the National Museum of Romanian Peasants and Club Fabrica, organisers report in a press release.
The festival has three competitive sections: CineBlackSea, Woman in Cinema and Docs&Shorts.
The Woman in Cinema, a section started in 2009, makes Ro-IFF the only film festival in Romania to have a section devoted to female directors. Selected for this year's competition are seven long features produced in 2009-2012. All seven are screened for the first time in Romania and two of them are screened for the first time in Europe and the world.
Film director Irena Skoric, actresses Susan Main, Emily Alexander-Wilmeth and Maria-Victoria Dragus are the guests of this year's edition.
Competing for the prizes are '7 seX 7,' (Croatia, 2011), director: Irena Skoric; 'Die Farbe des Ozeans' /Color of the Ocean (Germany 2011), director: Maggie Peren; 'Habibi rasak kharban' / Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head (Netherlands-USA-Palestine-United Arab Emirates, 2011), director: Susan Youssef, 'Zanan-e Bedun-e Mardan' / Women without Men' (Germany-Austria-France, 2009), director: Shirin Neshat; 'Das Wochenende'/The Weekend' (Germany, 2012), director: Nina Grosse, a European premiere; 'Like the Water' (USA, 2012), director: Caroline von Kuhn, a world premiere, and 'Töte Mich'/ Kill Me' (France-Germany-Switzerland, 2012) - director: Emily Atef.
The international jury of the festival will award two prizes - for the best director and the best actor - in the Woman in Cinema competition and the CineBlackSea section. The films in both competitive sections will vie for the Trophy of the festival.
Ro-IFF is held under the high aegis of Romania's President and organised with support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Centre of filmmaking, the Romanian National Film Archives and the National Museum of Romanian Peasants.
This is the eight edition of Ro-IFF, organised by the Artis Foundation. Established in 2005, it is the only international film festival that focused from its inception on film productions from Black Sea countries (Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Romania).