The 70th edition of Berlinale: Romanian cinema
Malmkrog, a film by Cristi Puiu
RO/RS/CH/SE/BA/MK
Guests at the mansion of man of the world Nikolai discuss death, the Antichrist, history and rule, progress and morality. Based on a text by Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyev, Cristi Puiu’s fresco is a razor-sharp criticism of our times.
Uppercase Print, a film by Radu Jude
RO
In 1981, a teenager scribbled anti-Ceaușescu slogans on the walls of buildings. The Securitate’s investigation of the case and its surveillance records reveal the regime’s repressive nature, while TV images from the era show Romania in a different light.
The Exist of the Trains, a film by Radu Jude
RO
On June 29, 1941, Germans and Romanians carried out a pogrom against the Jewish population of the city of Iași. Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă haul this atrocity back into the present in their radically pared-down, challenging film.
Servants, a film by Ivan Ostrochovský
SK/RO/IR/CZ
Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s.
The communist regime threatens to subjugate the Catholic Church. Will young seminarians Michal and Juraj remain true to their ideals? A frosty film noir with a well hidden burning heart.
Berlinale Talents
With a background in Political Sciences, Irina Malcea starts working in cinema in 2011. Two years later, she sets up the production house Luna Film. She is the producer of the documentary features TEACH by Alex Brendea, I AM HERCULES by Marius Iacob, co-producer of Ines Tanovic’s THE SON, executive producer on Andrei Cretulescu’s debut CHARLESTON and from the Romanian side, on the Bulgarian co-production PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE.
Irina is an alumna of EAVE Producers Workshop, PUENTES and Berlinale Talents. She is currently living and working in Bucharest and Brussels.
Romanian Films - catalogue
Find out all about the upcoming Romanian productions downloading the brand new Romanian Films catalogue.