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Romanian Film Festival Seattle – 11th Edition

WHEN: November 1 @ 7:00 pm - November 3 @ 8:00 pm WHERE: SIFF Cinema Uptown

10 Romanian and Moldovan feature films will be screened in Seattle on November 1-3, during the 11th edition of the Romanian Film Festival Seattle.

The Cultural Association Control N is joining ARCS this year as co-organizer of the 11th edition of Romanian Film Festival Seattle, working as a bridge between Romanian filmmakers and the American public.

See the full press release about the festival and our new collaboration here.

Launched in 2014 in order to promote Romanian film to diverse American audience, including the Romanian diaspora in Washington State, the festival has grown over the past 10 years, becoming one of the most important events of its kind on the west coast, a platform for facilitating access to the most recent internationally awarded Romanian films and for Romanian filmmakers, directors, actors and producers, attending the festival.

The Romanian Film Festival in Seattle will take place November 1-3 at SIFF Cinema Uptown, an important cultural setting and promoter of European film.

For the past three years, alongside the screenings organized in Seattle, the festival has also had editions during the same period in Detroit, MI and Phoenix, AZ with a number of films selected, and organized by two other sister organizations, ARCS Arizona and ARCS Detroit. The three festivals share the same brand and visual identity, created by Daniel Ursache, a Romanian artist settled in Montreal, Canada. This year's festival theme is Rhythms of Life.

The festival lineup and guests of the 11th edition of the Romanian Film Festival Seattle will be announced in September.

The festival is organized with the support of 4Culture, the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and the National Center for Cinematography in Moldova.

The cultural association Control N was founded in 2009 by screenwriters Oana Răsuceanu and Ana Agopian, and director Iulia Rugină in order to nurture filmmaking education in Romania and to create bridges between local and international artists, to support artistic debuts and creativity in performance arts. During its 15 years of activity, Control N has become one of the most energetic organizers of cultural events in film, theater, dance, photography, and creative writing.

We are excited to announce our first two guests, Dorian Boguță, main actor and producer of Another Lottery Ticket, and Ruxandra Ghițescu, screenwriter of Clara!

Stay tuned as we reveal more great films and special international guests!

In the meantime, please support our fundraising efforts.  The longevity of this festival is a testament that its success relies on your support. Your donations will help us pay for rental fees, event insurance, publicity, distribution rights, as well as for lodging and travel expenses for our guests. 

We welcome sponsors! Check out our sponsor package here. 

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Fundraising Campaign

Thank you for your generosity! Our goal is to raise $20,000 to cover costs associated with programming, publicity, technical support and film distribution rights. We will keep the fundraising campaign open on our website and Facebook.

Raised$3,450
Goal$20,000

Checks are welcome. Please address them to:

American Romanian Cultural Society
1931 E Lynn St
Seattle, WA 98112

Films

Another Lottery Ticket
by Paul Negoescu

2023, Comedy, 86 min
(Romania)

Dinel, Sile and Pompiliu want to get rich by mining crypto but they soon manage to lose the USB stick with their digital fortune.

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Refuge
by Liviu Marghidan

2023, Drama, 83 min (Romania)

A family of four, having been affected by a divorce, undertake their annual trip to the mountains, meant to get the children and their parents closer, as they live in...

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Clara
by Sabin Dorohoi

2023, Drama, 85 min (Romania)

Clara is a divorced Romanian mother who babysits a little girl in a German town by the Danube River. Her son, feeling abandoned, runs away from home in an attempt...

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Guests

Dorian Boguță

Actor Dorian Boguță, best known for "The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu" (2005) and "Francesca" (2009) was born in Kishinyov, USSR (now Chisinau, The Republic of Moldova) on April 24, 1971. He graduated from Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University in Georgia in 1992 and started his acting career at the National Theatre in Chisinau, where he played numerous noticeable lead roles. In 1999 he moved to Bucharest and started acting in films, gaining recognition with the TV series "Lombarzilor 8" (2006) and later with "Francesca" (2009. In 2009 he made his debut in directing, with the short-film "10", marking the beginning of a series of highly successful short-films, including "From now on" (2012), "Kazimir” (2014) and “Finale” (2015). He later on made his debut in feature film with the drama “Legacy” (2019). Following his passion for acting and directing, he founded actoriedefilm.ro with fellow actors, Dragoș Bucur and Alexandru Papadopol, which encompasses both an acting school and a producing company. Their purpose is to introduce their students to an acting style that is realistic and comes naturally. In 2013, they produced box office hits like “Love Building,” “Another Love Building”, “Two Lotery Tickets” (2016) and “Another Lotter Ticket”(2023), all of which Dorian both produced and acted in. 

Ruxandra Ghițescu

Ruxandra Ghițescu is a Romanian visual artist and filmmaker. She is a graduate student of the Media Art School, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Ruxandra is currently working as a director on films, commercials and as a scriptwriter. She was selected to participate in Berlinale Talents in 2015, as well as in Sarajevo Talents and Transylvania Talents in 2014. Her debut feature Otto the Barbarian, a Romanian-Belgian coproduction, was part of L’Atelier de Cinefondation 2017, Berlinale Script Station 2016, CineLink Sarajevo 2016 - winner of the Macedonian Film Institute Prize, CineLink Work in Progress 2019 and premiered in 2020 at Sarajevo IFF.  

Supporters

Private donors

Festival ambassador · $500 and more

Mary Sherhart
Otilia & Tudor Baraboi
Tracy Sharpe and Roxana Arama

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Helene Kaplan
Alexandrina Maicaneanu & Radu Simionescu
Irina Mork
Anca and Catalin Zaharia
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Special Thanks · $25 and more

Silviana Ciurea Ilcus