ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival: 6-12 August, Danube Delta
Festival takes place in the Green Village and Dolphin Camping in Sfântu Gheorghe (where the Danube Delta meets the Black Sea).
06 August 2018, 16:07
ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival, at its 15th edition, starts on 6 August in the Green Village and Dolphin Camping in Sfântu Gheorghe (where the Danube Delta meets the Black Sea) and will last until 12 August. Festival presents an extended program of Romanian films, either in previews screenings in Romania or films already released in cinemas across the country.
Festival has three competitive sections (feature, fiction shorts and animation shorts). Non-competitive sections include International Panorama – feature films awarded in Film Festivals that year, homages, retrospectives, screenings of recent Romanian feature and short films, special screenings on ecology, global issues and special programs, public debates with film crews, film critics and special guests.
Six productions have been selected by curator Ludmila Cvikova in the feature film competition of the 2018 edition - Disappearance (Iran-Qatar, 2017) by Ali Asgari; 3/ 4 (Three Quarters) (Germany – Bulgaria, 2017) by Ilian Metev; Djon Africa (Portugal, 2018) by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra; Nervous Translation (Philippines, 2018) by Shireen Seno; Under the Tree (Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, 2017) by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson; and Secretul Fericirii/ The Secret of Happiness (Romania, 2018), directing debut of Romanian actor Vlad Zamfirescu.
Productions are competing for the ANONIMUL Trophy, to be awarded based exclusively on the public’s vote.
400 shorts produced in 46 countries were submitted for the international and Romanian shorts competitions of the same event. Film critic Ionuţ Mareş was in charge with the selection of the 12 Romanian and 14 international productions competing in the two sections.
Miruna Berescu, one of the organizers of the Festival: ANONIMUL (Anonymous) International Film Festival starts tonight with a premiere in Romania –"3 Faces" directed by Jafar Panahi and awarded this year in Cannes for the Best Script, followed by Radu Jude's “I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians”, Romania's nomination for the Oscar, to be released in cinemas September 28, 2018.
Source:RRA.Translated by Miruna Matei
