Fest’Asia Asian Film Festival

poster24th edition, June 18-28, 2009, Bucharest
Finally – Fest’Asia ready for a new edition, the 4th one. It will take place from 19 to 28 of June, at Scala Cinema of Bucharest, being expected for and postponed several times already. Will it be the last edition? Or maybe one of the very numerous still to come? We’ll see that later. What is sure so far, is that Asian films will be waiting for you this summer!

Romanian Short Corner

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february 2-7, 2009, Clermont-Ferrand

For the first time in its history, Romanian film is represented on an exclusive short film market. Romanian Short Corner, the Romanian stand in the Short Film Market held in the frame of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (January 30 - February 7, 2009) is organized by Estenest, with the support of the Romanian Film Center.

Anim’est International Animation Film Festival

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4th edition, October 2-11 2009, Bucharest

Anim’est is the only animation film festival in Bucharest and the most important Romanian one (900 shorts and features screened and over 18,000 spectators in the first 3 editions), the most popular film festival in Bucharest for 2007 and 2008.

Anim’est has also obtained international acclaim: among the festival’s guests and/or competitors we can mention John R Dilworth, Bill Plympton, Hayo Freitag, Juan Pablo Zaramella, but also local stars of the genre such as Ion Truică (former Palme d’Or contender) or Mihai Bădică.

The competitive and showcase programs of Anim‘est include the most recent international hits of the genre, awarded in festivals such as Cannes, Annecy, Animadrid, Animateka, Anima Bruxelles etc.

You can find out more about the festival at www.animest.ro.

Black & White Music and Sibiu Film Fest

muzicaalbnegruAugust 12-16, 2007, Sibiu

The Transylvanian city of Sibiu’s year as a European Capital of Culture has seen Estenest organize Black & White Music, the only event of the kind held in recent Romania.  Locals and tourists could watch five cult German silent movies: Metropolis (d. Fritz Lang, 1926), The Wildcat (d. Ernst Lubitsch, 1921), A Lost Girl’s Diary (d. G.W. Pabst, 1929) and Faust (d. Friedrich Murnau).The films were accompanied by the renown Aljoscha Zimmermann Ensemble, a trio with hundreds of live performances in famous film festivals, such as Cannes, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Montreal, silent film DVD recordings and televised broadcasting.

In parallel with Black & White Music, at the arthouse Arta cinema in downtown Sibiu, the Sibiu Film Fest Estenest brought together five of the best European films made in 2006: The Science of Sleep (France-Italy, d. Michel Gondry), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Germany-France-Spain, d. Tom Tywker), Venus (UK, d. Roger Michell), The Queen (UK-France-Italy, d. Stephen Frears) and Private Fears in Public Places (France-Italy, d. Alain Resnais).

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Romanian Film Days in Italy

giornatedelcinemaOctober 26-31, 2007, Rome; November 5-9, 2007, Pisa

The Romanian Film Days in Italy were the biggest Romanian film promotion event held in Italy. Estenest organized a caravan, in cooperation with the Associazione ItaRoArte, the Arsenale Cineclub Pisa and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, with the financial support of the Romanian Film Center.
Nineteen of the most successful recent Romanian short and feature films were shown in Rome and Pisa, including the 2007 Palme D’Or flick, Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; the 2005 Un Certain Regard award winner The Death of Mr Lazarescu, by Cristi Puiu; 12:08 East of Bucharest (d. Corneliu Porumboiu), winner of the Camera D’Or in Cannes in 2006; The Way I Spent the End of the World (d. Catalin Mitulescu, 2006), which brought Dorotheea Petre the award for the Best Actress of the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival; California Dreamin’ (Endless), by Cristian Nemescu, winner of the Un Certain Regard award in 2007.

Successful shorts in the selection included Adrian Sitaru’s Waves (Golden Leopard in Locarno, 2007), Nemescu’s Marilena from P7 (selected in the Cannes Critics’ Week), the most succesful Romanian short ever, Radu Jude’s The Tube With a Hat (selected in over 70 film festivals around the world), Traffic , by Catalin Mitulescu, winner of the Short Film Golden Palm in 2005, Cigarettes and Coffee (d. Cristi Puiu, Golden Berlin Bear 2004), Friday Around Eleven (d. Iulia Rugină, 2007), Svenja and the Others (d. Vlad Ilicevici, selected in the Karlovy Vary Fresh Film Fest 2006).