One of the most anticipated sections at TIFF 2011 is the one dedicated to Romanian cinema.
For three days, film lovers will be able to enjoy the most recent Romanian film productions, screened for the first time ever in Romania, plus a series of masterclasses, panels and debates held by renowned film professionals. This year’s line-up, selected by Mihai Chirilov, the Artistic Director of the Festival, is made up of 12 feature films and 15 shorts.
Ten years after the birth of the Romanian New Wave, the public will be able to enjoy an utterly special screening, of a film considered a landmark of Romanian cinema, Stuff and Dough – Cristi Puiu’s debut. Cinema Florin Piersic will thus host the event-screening which will officially open the Romanian Days, on Thursday, June 9, at 9.30 p.m., in the presence of the director and cast. A young man who owns his own small business wishes to expand and buy a small boutique, but is without financial means. A local big shot offers him a large amount of money in exchange of an apparently simple task: the transport of a bag to a precise address in Bucharest. The problem is that the bag contains some items craved by other parties.
Actors Dragoș Bucur, Ioana Flora and Alexandru Papadopol star in the leading roles.
Cristi Puiu will meet the audience, press and festival guests during a Cinema Lesson he will hold on Friday, June 10, at 11.00 a.m., at TIFF Lounge – Unirii Square. For two hours, Cristi Puiu will fascinate the public, sharing stories and key-moments from his experience and from the three feature films he directed so far: Stuff and Dough (2001), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) and Aurora (2010), as well as from the short film Cigarettes and Coffee (2004) – winner of the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at Berlin Film Festival 2004.
