ESTE’N'EST is a Romanian film-focused NGO (cultural association), settled in Bucharest and dealing with organizing film festivals in Romania and promoting quality cinema. We are also very interested in promoting European and Asian cinemas as a form of supporting diversity on the screen.

Another main objective is to support the young Romanian filmmakers, as we are convinced Romanian cinema lacks this kind of actions.

We strongly believe that it is essential for young filmmakers to have contact with real values, to enlarge her/his film- and cultural-related knowledge and to get acquainted with young filmmakers from other countries.

As an NGO, we are very enthusiastic about building solid-grounded relationships with similar European (and eventually not only European) organizations having the same (or very close) purposes, passions and activity fields.

Consequently, we developed very close partnerships with the Nisi Masa European network, in which we’ve been taking part as an observer member since March 2006.

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