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After breaking out with documentary films such as “Fanfaron, Fanfaron” and “Mascarade” and a few shorts - “Epava” (The Wreck), “Ziua incepe noaptea” (The day starts during the night), “Say Joe” – Cornel Gheorghiță finished his first feature film: Europolis, which was selected for the Montreal World Film Festival, where it will compete in the First Films World Competition."I’ve been asked many times to include the film into a genre: fantastic drama? a legend? a ballad? a folkloric myth? a fairy tale? The only thing I can say is that it’s fiction. Against today’s author cinema trending, against this hyper-realistic current, Europolis doesn’t wish to copy reality; the reality is just a starting point for a imaginative foray in human’s soul", declared the director. Gheorghiță’s film concentrates on Magdalena and her son named Nae. They live in a small port of Sulina, in East...

Gerard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel will be heading to Romania to play in an adaptation of Titus Popovici novel Moartea lui Ip (The Ip's Death) - the feature will be known as So I Say. In the director's chair we find Bogdan Dumitrescu Dreyer, whose previous work includes Never Enough (2004), The Last Station (1998) and also Thalassa, Thalassa (1993) – the Tiger Award winner at Rotterdam Film Festival. The French actor plays the lead character in the project which will be filmed at Sighişoara, Romania, starting with August 22nd. Apart from Keitel, the film will feature Romanian actors Dorel Vişan, Alexandru Bindea, Gabriel Spahiu, Bogdan Iancu, Adina Cartianu and Mihai Constantin. A previous adaptation of Popovici novel was made by Sergiu Nicolaescu, back in 1972, which was known as Then I Sentenced Them All To Death. Written by Piero de Bernardi (co-writer of Sergio Leone's 1984 film, Once Upon a Time in America) and...