BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ARCS Project - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ARCS Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://arcsproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ARCS Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20140101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251107T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251109T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T000534 CREATED:20250410T145418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T221359Z UID:10000207-1762542000-1762718400@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Film Festival Seattle - 12th Edition DESCRIPTION:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/RFF25-trailer-small.mp4 \n  Tickets and passes on sale now!The Romanian Film Festival in Seattle returns for its 12th edition November 7-9 at SIFF Cinema Uptown\, an important cultural setting and promoter of European film. The Cultural Association Control N (based in Romania) is joining ARCS for a second year as co-organizer of the film festival\, working as a bridge between Romanian filmmakers and the American public. \nThis year’s theme\, Unifying Stories\, illustrates the breadth of our shared human experiences touching on ideas of ambition\, ethical dilemmas\, and displacement\, alongside funny struggles spiced with the proverbial dark Romanian humor. The festival will continue to showcase the best of the newest film productions across genres from Romania and the Republic of Moldova\, promoting outstanding directors and actors\, both established and up-and-coming. Our special guests this year are directors Tudor Giurgiu and Natalia Shaufert\, and cinematographer Boróka Biró. \nLaunched 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 11 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. \nThe festival is organized with the support of 4Culture. \nIn 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. \nWe welcome sponsors! Check out our sponsor package here. \nCheck out volunteer opportunities here. \nFestival Official Partners and Co-organizers: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            \nFestival Institutional Partner:           \nSupporting Sponsors: \n          \nFestival Ambassador: \n                \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFilmsTickets and Passes\n\nFundraising Campaign\nThank 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. \nRaised$18\,570Goal$20\,000 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n How much would you like to donate?(Required)\n \n \n $25 Many ThanksWe will integrate a special thank you credit on our website.\n \n \n \n $50 Festival FriendSpecial thank you credit on our website!\n \n \n \n $100 Festival SupporterSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to two films showing at the festival.\n \n \n \n $250 Festival BenefactorSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to four films showing at the festival.\n \n \n \n $500 Festival AmbassadorSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to eight films showing at the festival\, thank you credit after the each film screening and special thank you credit on our website (with your company logo\, if applicable). \n \n \n \n $1\,000 Supporting SponsorWe are offering up to three full festival passes\, credit before the screenings\, special thank you credit on our website with your logo and link to your website. \n \n \n \n $5\,000 Festival Official Partner and Co-OrganizerWe are offering up to five full festival passes\, credit before the screenings\, special thank you credit as a festival official partner and co-organizer on our website with your logo and link to your website.\n Total\n \n Payment MethodPayPal Checkout\n American ExpressDiscoverMasterCardVisaSupported Credit Cards: American Express\, Discover\, MasterCard\, Visa\n Card Number\n \n \n \n Expiration Date\n \n \n Security Code\n \n  \n \n \n Cardholder Name\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChecks are welcome. Please address them to: \nAmerican Romanian Cultural Society1931 E Lynn StSeattle\, WA 98112 \n\nTrailerThe Moromete Family 3: Father and Sonby Stere Gulea\n7:00pm\, November 7Q&A with producer Tudor Giurgiu \n2024\, Drama\, 112 min(Romania) \n \n The year 1954 puts Niculae Moromete to the test: the tumultuous love affair with a married woman\, the crisis of political conscience and the loss of confidence in the literary... \n The year 1954 puts Niculae Moromete to the test: the tumultuous love affair with a married woman\, the crisis of political conscience and the loss of confidence in the literary guild overwhelm him. The providential appearance in his life of a young poet offers him a way out of his professional and personal dilemmas\, inspiring him to publish the novel The Moromete Family. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerThe Spruce Forest (US Premiere)by Tudor Giurgiu\n12:00pm\, November 8Q&A with director Tudor Giurgiu \n2025\, Hybrid documentary\, 75min(Romania) \n \n This gripping hybrid documentary\, the latest film by renowned director Tudor Giurgiu\, recreates the struggles faced by a Romanian community in Bassarabia while under Soviet occupation during World War II.... \n This gripping hybrid documentary\, the latest film by renowned director Tudor Giurgiu\, recreates the struggles faced by a Romanian community in Bassarabia while under Soviet occupation during World War II. A dramatic separation of a young couple becomes the least of their problems when the wife and two little girls are deported to Siberia\, and the young husband escapes to Romania crushed by the guilt of losing the loved ones. Yet\, the unfathomable happens and the two meet later in life. It is through the mastery of the actors who perform the theatrical reenactment that the story is revived and becomes a comment on our own times. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerHigh School Thievesby Tudor Petremarin\n2:10pm\, November 8 \n2024\, Comedy drama\, 110 min(Romania) \n \n In order to fulfill their dreams\, four teenagers decide to make money by selling the SAT prompts online.Sofi wants to raise money to pay for her college in Switzerland\, Alex... \n In order to fulfill their dreams\, four teenagers decide to make money by selling the SAT prompts online.Sofi wants to raise money to pay for her college in Switzerland\, Alex dreams to build his own recording studio\, Amalia seek to impress her senator father\, and Tomiță looks for an adventure.Everything is going well until they are all forced to face the reality around them and the consequences of their actions. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerInk Washby Sarra Tsorakidis\n4:25pm\, November 8 \n2024\, Drama\, 90 min(Romania\, Greece\, Denmark) \n \n Seeking shelter in her work from the pain of a breakup\, Lena\, a painter turning 40\, is commissioned to decorate a brutalist hotel nestled in the depths of a Romanian... \n Seeking shelter in her work from the pain of a breakup\, Lena\, a painter turning 40\, is commissioned to decorate a brutalist hotel nestled in the depths of a Romanian forest. There\, where the Danube ends its course in seemingly miraculous springs\, Lena’s moral views are confronted with an overwhelmingly corrupted community. The beautiful cinematography records the subtle interaction between landscape\, human sensibility\, and art. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerThe Dreamby Cătălin Saizescu\n6:20pm\, November 8 \n2023\, Comedy drama\, 136 min(Romania) \n \n Alex\, a downcast actor facing both romantic and professional failure\, starts an unusual creative project: staging Pyramus and Thisbe (from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream) inside a prison. What begins as... \n Alex\, a downcast actor facing both romantic and professional failure\, starts an unusual creative project: staging Pyramus and Thisbe (from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream) inside a prison. What begins as an artistic experiment evolves into a transformative experience for the inmates\, culminating in an unexpected moment where art\, hope\, and escape collide in front of a live audience. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerTWST: Things We Said Todayby Andrei Ujică\n11:25am\, November 9 \n2024\, Hybrid documentary\, 85 min(Romania\, France) \n \n By famous documentarist Andrei Ujică\, TWST takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium\, and as its... \n By famous documentarist Andrei Ujică\, TWST takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium\, and as its title a Beatles song that already anticipates a time when the present moment will have become a haunting past\, neither retrievable nor forgettable. But the frame of reference steadily broadens. Adjacent realities of 1965 are juxtaposed—the New York World’s Fair\, the Watts riots filtering through from the East Coast on television. It becomes a cinematic poem of that generation embedded in its own history. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerComatogenby Igor Cobileanski\n1:00pm\, November 9 \n2024\, Drama\, 110 min(Romania\, Moldova) \n \n Trying to get money to cover a debt for her son\, who is in danger of going to prison\, Alina\, a nurse\, faces an unexpected ethical problem. In a city... \n Trying to get money to cover a debt for her son\, who is in danger of going to prison\, Alina\, a nurse\, faces an unexpected ethical problem. In a city of social disparities\, the rich have neither time nor empathy for the poor\, while the poor cannot afford resisting financial temptations. Will Alina give in and abandon her faith and morality? \n Read More\n \n  TrailerMoldovan Talesby Vlad Bolgarin\, Evgheni Dudceac\, Adriana Vasilcov\, Ioana Vatamanu-Mărgineanu\, Natalia Shaufert\n3:30pm\, November 9Q&A with director Natalia Shaufert \n2024\, Comedy\, 104 min (Moldova) \n \n A diverse and hilarious cast of characters in contemporary Moldova encounters surprising opportunities and obstacles through a series of unexpected adventures\, all capturing the essence of humor\, struggles\, and spirit... \n A diverse and hilarious cast of characters in contemporary Moldova encounters surprising opportunities and obstacles through a series of unexpected adventures\, all capturing the essence of humor\, struggles\, and spirit of both rural and urban life. \n Read More\n \n TrailerThe New Year That Never Cameby Bogdan Mureșanu\n6:00pm\, November 9Q&A with cinematographer Boróka Biró \n2024\, Comedy drama\, 138 min(Romania\, Serbia) \n \n Six people find themselves in the eye of the storm without realizing it\, as Ceaușescu's regime is on its last legs. A TV director has to find a way to... \n Six people find themselves in the eye of the storm without realizing it\, as Ceaușescu's regime is on its last legs. A TV director has to find a way to save his New Year’s show after the key actress defects. The solution lies with a distressed theatre actress who can’t reach her ex-boyfriend in Timișoara. Meanwhile the director’s son\, a student\, plans to flee to Yugoslavia by swimming across the Danube. Watching the son is an officer of the Securitate secret police\, who struggles to move his mother from her soon-to-be-demolished house to a new apartment she cannot stand. The move is being executed by a factory worker\, who panics after his son writes a letter to Santa Claus revealing that  his father wants Ceaușescu dead. All these lives\, under constant and invisible surveillance by the Securitate\, converge in Bodgan Mureșanu’s  tragicomedy. \n Read More\n \n  Guests\nTudor GiurgiuMember of the European Film Academy\, Tudor Giurgiu is the founder and President of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF)\, the most prestigious film-related event in Romania. His directorial debut feature Love Sick was selected in Panorama section of 2006 Berlinale and awarded in several int’l festivals. His short Superman\, Spiderman or Batman (2011) won Best European Short at the 2012 edition of European Film Academy Awards. Tudor’s 2nd feature\, Of Snails and Men\, was awarded in Warsaw IFF and Valladolid IFF. Why Me?\, an unsettling legal thriller based on a real case of corruption in present-day Romania\, premiered in 2015 Berlinale Panorama. His most recent films are Libertate / Freedom (2023)\, a story inspired by real events that happened during the Romanian Revolution and Nasty (2024)\, a documentary about the Romanian tennis legend Ilie Năstase co-directed alongside Cristian Pascariu and Tudor D. Popescu\, which premiered as a Special Screening at Festival de Cannes in 2024. \nNatalia ShaufertNatalia Shaufert is a Moldovan-American playwright\, screenwriter\, and film director. She is a graduate alumnus of the Dramatic Writing Department at New York University 2025. She writes slightly distorted real-life stories that emphasize\, hyperbolize and satirize societal dilemmas and tragic\, man-made fates. Nataliaholds a film degree and an MFA in Directing animation from Academy of Arts in Moldova. She has been internationally awarded for her films Ana\, Mother Nature\,  You and Me\, and Resentment. \nBoróka BiróBoróka Biró is a Bucharest-based emerging cinematographer and alumna of the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” (MA). She is a Berlinale Talents 2021 and Sarajevo Talents 2017 alumna. She began her career in the camera department during her studies\, quickly advancing from focus puller to camera operator\, contributing to acclaimed productions such as Sieranevada (dir. Cristi Puiu)\, Touch Me Not (dir. Adina Pintilie)\, and Wednesday (dir. Tim Burton\, Netflix). Her feature debut as a cinematographer\, It Takes Two to Fence (dir. Andrei Gheorghe)\, premiered at Mons International Film Festival and earned her the Young Hope Award at the Gopo Gala for cinematography. Most recently\, she lensed Bogdan Mureșanu’s The New Year That Never Came\, which had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival\, where it won Best Film in the Orizzonti section\, the FIPRESCI Award\, and the Bisato d’Oro Award for Best Screenplay. For her work\, Boróka received the Premio Autrici Under 40 “Valentina Pedicini” Special Mention for cinematography. \n  Moderators\nArtur ErhanArtur is a Seattle-based screenwriter\, film and music-videos director. Artur graduated from the Academy of Music\, Theater and Fine Arts of Moldova\, with a degree in Cinematic Arts. He is a former "TIFF Transilvania Pitch Stop Screenplay" winner (KAZIMIR - 2025)\, "Final Draft Big Break" finalist (NIGHT LIGHT - 2025)\, and "Write A Screenplay For..." (CIULEANDRA - 2023). He is currently working on a number of projects with filmmakers from Romania\, Moldova\, and the United States. His latest film "HOTARUL / (THE WALL)" that he wrote and produced\, is set to be released in February 2026.\n\n  \nIleana Marin\, Ph.D.Ileana Marin teaches interdisciplinary courses at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the Center of Excellence in Image Studies at the University of Bucharest. Her long-standing academic career on both sides of the ocean has given her the opportunity to establish contacts between Romanian and American scholars\, artists\, and institutions. She\, thus\, initiated the first UW Exploration Seminar to Romania\, and to Eastern Europe\, and opened the fund for Romanian Studies\, hoping that Romanian language will be taught regularly in Seattle. With a BA in Romanian and a PhD. in Comparative Literature from the University of Bucharest (2000)\, and one in Textual Studies from the UW (2011)\, Ileana is a strong believer in the power of education and bilingualism. In ARCS\, she advocates the expansion of the Romanian language programs in the US and for disseminating the most recent Romanian cultural achievements. On her agenda as president\, Ileana Marin has two major tasks: board development and recruitment to ensure the successful implementation of ARCS mission through meaningful programs. \nOtilia Baraboi\, Ph.D.Before coming to Seattle in 2000 from Romania\, Otilia worked as a literary journalist and published short-fiction\, translations and articles. She holds university degrees in French and English literatures from Romania\, Switzerland\, and the US. She has a Ph.D. on the politics of translation from the University of Washington\, where she taught French language and literature for 17 years\, and where she is currently co-teaching a course on Romanian literature and film. In 2013\, she co-founded ARCS and was President of the Board for five years before becoming ARCS’ first Executive Director. For Otilia\, ARCS has been a wonderful opportunity to remain connected with the vibrant culture of her birthplace\, while contributing to the artistic and cultural vitality of the Pacific Northwest. As part of her work\, Otilia has been managing the Romanian Film Festival in Seattle and ARCS community-based school for Romanian heritage students\, as well as more than 300 cultural and educational events over the past 9 years. Her priorities are to create sustainable\, community-building programs and partnerships\, as well as develop ARCS' brand identity in accordance with its mission and values. Most of all\, Otilia hopes that her work will have a direct\, long-lasting impact on the ways in which future generations will define\, celebrate and pass on their heritage. Otilia is also the President of the Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest and a board member of Romanian United Fund. \n  \n  SupportersPrivate donors Supporting sponsor · $1\,000 and more\n\n\n\n\n Cosmin and Elena Catrinescu\n\n\n Tracy Sharpe and Roxana Arama\n\n\n Mihai and Gabriela Aluaș\n\n\n Alexandrina Măicăneanu and Radu Simionescu\n\n\n\nFestival ambassador · $500 and more\n\n\n\n\n Otilia & Tudor Baraboi\n\n\n Mary Sherhart\n\n\n Cătălin and Raluca Olteanu\n\n\n Betty and Jeff Gossett\n\n\n Vasi Rusu\n\n\n Nick Voicu\n\n\n Irina and Ola Mork\n\n\n Ana and Radu Băcioiu\n\n\n Adrian Potra\n\n\n Luana and Marian Stănescu\n\n\n Gabriela and Teodora Ghizilă\n\n\n\nFestival benefactor · $250 and more\n\n\n\n\n Dana Cozmei\n\n\n Ileana Marin\n\n\n Anca and Catalin Zaharia\n\n\n Marius Bunescu\n\n\n Andrei Zlati\n\n\n Ramona and Marian Pungan\n\n\n Roxana Teodorescu\n\n\n Claudiu and Dana Raileanu\n\n\n Anonymous\n\n\n Andrei Marinescu\n\n\n Gabriel and Raluca Hera\n\n\n\nFestival supporter · $100 and more\n\n\n\n\n Michele Anciaux Aoki\n\n\n Rebecca Carpenter\n\n\n Ionela Popescu\n\n\n Carmen Rautu\n\n\n Helene Kaplan\n\n\n Smaranda Lieuallen\n\n\n Elena Boris\n\n\n Cristian and Ana Maria Ilac\n\n\n Horatiu Dicher\n\n\n Zachariah Wolfe\n\n\n Elena Apreutesei\n\n\n In honor of Ana Bacioiu\n\n\n Elizabeta Iliescu\n\n\n\nFestival friend · $50 and more\n\n\n\n\n Linda Morris\n\n\n Lena Stavig\n\n\n In honor Ana Bacioiu\n\n\n Cristina Sega\n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks · $25 and more\n\n\n\n\n Florin Teodorescu\n\n\n\n\n\n   URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-film-festival-seattle-12th-edition/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/campania_RFF600x379.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241101T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260526T000534 CREATED:20240729T203728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T014825Z UID:10000170-1730487600-1730664000@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Film Festival Seattle - 11th Edition DESCRIPTION: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. \nBuy a festival pass or tickets here. \nThe Cultural Association Control N (based in Romanian) 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. \nSee the full press release about the festival and our new collaboration here. \nLaunched 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. \nThe Romanian Film Festival in Seattle will take place November 1-3 at SIFF Cinema Uptown\, an important cultural setting and promoter of European film. \nFor 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. \nThe festival is organized with the support of 4Culture and the National Center for Cinematography in Moldova. \nWe are excited to welcome special guests\, Dorian Boguță\, main actor and producer of Another Lottery Ticket\,  Ruxandra Ghițescu\, screenwriter of Clara\, and Sergiu Cumatrenco Jr.\, producer of Carbon! \nIn 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.  \nWe welcome sponsors! Check out our sponsor package here. This project did not benefit from the support of the Romanian state. \nDo you want to help out during the festival? Check out the volunteer slots and sign up today! \nFestival Official Partners and Co-organizers:           \nFestival Institutional Partners:     \nSupporting Sponsors:                \nFestival Ambassadors: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFundraising Campaign\nThank 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. \nRaised$19\,625Goal$20\,000 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n How much would you like to donate?(Required)\n \n \n $25 Many ThanksWe will integrate a special thank you credit on our website.\n \n \n \n $50 Festival FriendSpecial thank you credit on our website!\n \n \n \n $100 Festival SupporterSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to two films showing at the festival.\n \n \n \n $250 Festival BenefactorSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to four films showing at the festival.\n \n \n \n $500 Festival AmbassadorSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to eight films showing at the festival\, thank you credit after the each film screening and special thank you credit on our website (with your company logo\, if applicable). \n \n \n \n $1\,000 Supporting SponsorWe are offering up to three full festival passes\, credit before the screenings\, special thank you credit on our website with your logo and link to your website. \n \n \n \n $5\,000 Festival Official Partner and Co-OrganizerWe are offering up to five full festival passes\, credit before the screenings\, special thank you credit as a festival official partner and co-organizer on our website with your logo and link to your website.\n Total\n \n Payment MethodPayPal Checkout\n American ExpressDiscoverMasterCardVisaSupported Credit Cards: American Express\, Discover\, MasterCard\, Visa\n Card Number\n \n \n \n Expiration Date\n \n \n Security Code\n \n  \n \n \n Cardholder Name\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChecks are welcome. Please address them to: \nAmerican Romanian Cultural Society1931 E Lynn StSeattle\, WA 98112 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFilms\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nAnother Lottery Ticketby Paul Negoescu\n7:00pm\, Nov. 1 Q&A with lead actor Dorian Boguță \n2023\, Comedy\, 86 min(Romania) \n \n Dinel\, Sile and Pompiliu want to get rich by mining crypto but they soon manage to lose the USB stick with their digital fortune. \n Dinel\, Sile and Pompiliu want to get rich by mining crypto but they soon manage to lose the USB stick with their digital fortune. \n Read More\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nRefugeby Liviu Marghidan\n11:05am\, Nov. 2 \n2023\, Drama\, 83 min (Romania) \n \n 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... \n 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 different countries\, France and Romania. Their holiday is turned upside down when the children vanish\, running away on the pathway to a mountain hut\, thus creating a tense atmosphere filled with frantic searches\, confrontations between the adults and a climatic ending. \n Read More\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nNoraby Carla-Maria Teaha\n12:50pm\, Nov. 2 \n2023\, Documentary\, 85 min(Romania) \n \n Poet\, novelist and translator\, 91-year-old Nora Iuga is a unique character on the Romanian contemporary literature scene. This is largely due to the author’s particular mix of playfulness and charisma\, which is reflected in her writing at... \n Poet\, novelist and translator\, 91-year-old Nora Iuga is a unique character on the Romanian contemporary literature scene. This is largely due to the author’s particular mix of playfulness and charisma\, which is reflected in her writing at every level. With her books being banned for eight years under the communist regime\, accused of a “morbid eroticism”\, the documentary follows Nora Iuga for the duration of 3 years and tries to gently discover where her eroticism comes from and how it still influences her work. In a very intimate exploration of her mind and soul\, we are invited to discover the secret of always staying young and to relentlessly searching for love\, towards which Nora has a very special approach. \n Read More\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nHoly Week (US Premiere)by Andrei Cohn\n2:40pm\, Nov. 2 \n2024\, Drama\, 133 min(Romania) \n \n The Holy Week\, around 1900\, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe\, his Christian employee\,reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the... \n The Holy Week\, around 1900\, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe\, his Christian employee\,reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful\, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile\, anti-Semitic environment. From then on\, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties\, engaging onto a path of transformation leading toextreme consequences. \n Read More\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nFreedomby Tudor Giurgiu\n5:20pm\, Nov. 2 \n2023\, Drama\, 109 min (Romania\, Hungary) \n \n In the chaotic days of the December 1989 revolution that overthrew the Communist regime\, the Transylvanian city of Sibiu becomes the scene of a violent assault on a Police unit... \n In the chaotic days of the December 1989 revolution that overthrew the Communist regime\, the Transylvanian city of Sibiu becomes the scene of a violent assault on a Police unit that quickly escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers\, policemen\, civilian protesters and representatives of the secret police. In a desperate attempt to escape the siege\, Police captain Viorel is captured by the army and thrown into an empty swimming pool along withhundreds of prisoners accused of being terrorists. \n Read More\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nClaraby Sabin Dorohoi\n7:35pm\, Nov. 2Q&A with screenwriter Ruxandra Ghițescu \n2023\, Drama\, 85 min (Romania) \n \n 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... \n 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 to reach his mother by traveling on a small boat upriver. \n Read More\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nGone Wildby Dan Curean\n11:05am\, Nov. 3 \n2012\, Documentary\, 88 min(Romania) \n \n In the waterlogged lands of the Danube Delta\, in Romania\, some horses were abandoned\, when the collective farms collapsed at the same time as the Communist regime.  They survived and... \n In the waterlogged lands of the Danube Delta\, in Romania\, some horses were abandoned\, when the collective farms collapsed at the same time as the Communist regime.  They survived and in time they went wild\, forming a unique colony of wild horses that is increasing. Meanwhile the local people\, who were similarly left to their own devices\, are struggling to survive. The film explores  this extraordinary paradox: an increasing herd of horses and a decreasing number of villagers - and the threat to both groups\, through the eyes of Ivan\, a young village boy\, who over the years has developed a unique and powerful bond with the horses. \n Read More\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nWhere Elephants Go (US Premiere)by Cătălin Rotaru and Gabi Șarga\n1:00pm\, Nov. 3 \n2024\, Drama\, 115 min(Romania) \n \n Nine-year-old Leni is witty and wise for her age and quite a match for the homeless intellectual Marcel\, who is a 23-year-old child. Leni's mother Magda refuses to accept the... \n Nine-year-old Leni is witty and wise for her age and quite a match for the homeless intellectual Marcel\, who is a 23-year-old child. Leni's mother Magda refuses to accept the failure of Leni's medical treatment and rebuffs Marcel's friendship\, even as he and Leni demonstrate every step through life can be a joyous adventure. \n Read More\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nNasty (US Premiere)by Tudor Giurgiu\, Cristian Pascariu\, Tudor D. Popescu\n3:25pm\, Nov. 3 \n2024\, Documentary\, 104 min(Romania) \n \n This ultimate film about Ilie Nastase\, the legendary sportsman coming from an unknown country behind the Iron Curtain\, charts his impressive achievements\, his one-of-a-kind antics and uncontrolled bursts of anger.... \n This ultimate film about Ilie Nastase\, the legendary sportsman coming from an unknown country behind the Iron Curtain\, charts his impressive achievements\, his one-of-a-kind antics and uncontrolled bursts of anger. Lovable\, charming and generous\, yet temperamental\, arrogant and obscene\, Mr. Nice’n’Nasty was tennis’ first global rockstar. \n Read More\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nCarbonby Ion Borș\n5:55pm\, Nov. 3Q&A with producer Sergiu Cumatrenco Jr. \n2022\, Dark comedy\, 103 min(Moldova\, Romania\, Spain) \n \n Moldova\, early 90s: Dima\, a tractor driver\, wants to be enrolled in the military troops to take part in the local war on the Transnistrian border. Vasea\, an Afghanistan war... \n Moldova\, early 90s: Dima\, a tractor driver\, wants to be enrolled in the military troops to take part in the local war on the Transnistrian border. Vasea\, an Afghanistan war veteran\, joins him. While on their way to the front\, they find a carbonized body. Authorities ignore them without helping to identify the body. Dima and Vasea decide to bury the corpse according to the proper Christian rituals\, but shortly they will go\, together with the body\, on an absurd journey to discover his identity. \n Read More\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuests\nDorian BoguțăActor Dorian Boguță\, best known for "The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu" (2005) and "Francesca" (2009) was born in Kishinev\, USSR (now Chișinău\, 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 Chișinău\, 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 Lottery Tickets” (2016) and “Another Lottery Ticket”(2023)\, all of which Dorian both produced and acted in. \n\n \nRuxandra GhițescuRuxandra 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.\n\n  \nSergiu Cumatrenco Jr.Sergiu Cumatrenco Jr. is one of the leading producers from Moldova. He is CEO and a co-founder of the YOUBESC Creative Institute\, Executive Director of the Art Consumers Association and the founder of the RAVAC International Film Festival. A member of the Moldavian Filmmakers Association and a member of the European Film Academy\, he has produced and co-produced 15 film projects\, among them six international co-productions. Among the most recent films created in co-production with partners from Moldova\, Romania\, Spain\, the USA\, Germany\, France and Austria the following stand out: BILLION\, CARBON\, ANOTHER LOTTERY TICKETS\, VARVARA\, THUNDERS\, MMXX\, TRANSIT TIMES. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupporters\nPrivate donors\n\nSupporting sponsor · $1\,000 and more\n\n\n\n\n Mihai and Gabriela Aluaș\n\n\n Cosmin and Elena Catrinescu\n\n\n Otilia & Tudor Baraboi\n\n\n\nFestival ambassador · $500 and more\n\n\n\n\n Mary Sherhart\n\n\n Tracy Sharpe and Roxana Arama\n\n\n Adrian Potra\n\n\n Dana Cozmei\n\n\n Luana and Marian Stanescu\n\n\n Nick Voicu\n\n\n Raluca and Gabriel Hera\n\n\n Alexandrina Maicaneanu and Radu Simionescu\n\n\n Irina & Cristi Salvan\n\n\n\nFestival benefactor · $250 and more\n\n\n\n\n Ileana Marin\n\n\n Ramona and Marian Pungan\n\n\n Anonymous\n\n\n Roxana Teodorescu\n\n\n Andrei Marinescu\n\n\n In loving memory of Eugenia Lup and Rodica Gutan\n\n\n Oana and Doru Nica\n\n\n Vasi Rusu\n\n\n Thomas Richardson\n\n\n Marius Popa\n\n\n Claudiu Raileanu\n\n\n Maya Bacioiu teen fundraiser\n\n\n Alexandru Popa\n\n\n Miruna Ticrea\n\n\n Tudor and Adina Trufinescu\n\n\n Isabella Fu and Radu Palanca\n\n\n\nFestival supporter · $100 and more\n\n\n\n\n Helene Kaplan\n\n\n Irina Mork\n\n\n Anca and Catalin Zaharia\n\n\n\n Smaranda Lieuallen\n\n\n Irina VanPatten\n\n\n Margareta Christian\n\n\n Michele Anciaux Aoki\n\n\n Cristian and Ana Maria Ilac\n\n\n Alexandrina and Adrian Muntianu\n\n\n Veronica Guea\n\n\n Carmen Rautu\n\n\n Adriana Popescu\n\n\n Adrian Fanaru\n\n\n Monica Poinescu\n\n\n Elizabeta Iliescu\n\n\n Carl Winter\n\n\n Raluca Herman\n\n\n Edward Blau\n\n\n Ionut Tulai\n\n\n Cristina Houston\n\n\n Mihai and Monica Ene-Pietrosanu\n\n\n Nicoleta and Andrei Zlati\n\n\n Camelia and Ciprian Clinciu\n\n\n\nFestival friend · $50 and more\n\n\n\n\n Linda Morris\n\n\n Daniela Stafie\n\n\n Marina Lyons\n\n\n In honor of Ana Bacioiu\n\n\n Adriana Guiman\n\n\n Casey Choi\n\n\n Elena Apreutesei\n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks · $25 and more\n\n\n\n\n Silviana Ciurea Ilcus URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-film-festival-seattle-11th-edition/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/New-RFF-2024-poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231113 DTSTAMP:20260526T000534 CREATED:20230816T193331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T070813Z UID:10000011-1699056000-1699833599@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Film Festival Seattle\, 10th Edition DESCRIPTION:The Romanian Film Festival Seattle is excited to celebrate its 10th anniversary edition this year. Running Nov. 4-12\, the festival will mark the return to SIFF Uptown Cinema Nov. 4-5 (its home until 2020)\, and will continue the following weekend at Northwest Film Forum. The online program will be available for the duration of the festival. \nStarted in 2014 with the scope of bringing Romanian cinema to audiences in Seattle\, the festival has adapted and blossomed over the years. It soldiered through the pandemic\, thanks to a loyal audience that followed it as it transformed to a virtual program. This year it continues to enjoy a hybrid format\, with an online selection available in the continental US and in-person screenings at SIFF Cinema Uptown and Northwest Film Forum. \nThrough the years\, each edition has brought thought-provoking and award-winning productions from Romania and Eastern Europe\, giving a platform to upcoming and established directors alike. \nThis year’s theme “One Eye Laughing\, One Eye Crying” is a nod to its first edition in 2014 - the duality of the Romanian spirit that propels it forward in spite of constant hardships. The first year saw an overwhelming success following a grassroots effort to mobilize the Romanian community in the greater Seattle area.  \nThis year’s nuanced edition celebrates the rich cultural fabric of Romania\, while exploring current topics with the unflinchingly honest perspectives that fans of the festival have come to expect from Romanian cinema. The program will comprise of critically-acclaimed films and newly released films\, and featuring special guests from Romania. \nDaniel Ursache\, the graphic artist behind the festival posters over the years\, has once again turned his creative eye to reflect the unstopping energy of the festival. \nMark your calendars and let’s keep the story going! \nIf you have a business or reprezent an organization\, please check out our sponsorship package and let us know if you would like to benefit from our advertising opportunities.  \nFestival Official Partners and Co-organizers:       Festival Institutional Partners:           \nSupporting Sponsors:                \nFestival Ambassadors:                      FilmsFundraising CampaignThank 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$19\,949Goal$20\,000 \n \n How much would you like to donate?(Required)\n \n \n $25 Many ThanksWe will integrate a special thank you credit on our website.\n \n \n \n $50 Festival FriendSpecial thank you credit on our website!\n \n \n \n $100 Festival SupporterSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to two films showing at the festival.\n \n \n \n $250 Festival BenefactorSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to four films showing at the festival.\n \n \n \n $500 Festival AmbassadorSpecial thank you credit on our website and free access to eight films showing at the festival\, thank you credit after the each film screening and special thank you credit on our website (with your company logo\, if applicable). \n \n \n \n $1\,000 Supporting SponsorWe are offering up to three full festival passes\, credit before the screenings\, special thank you credit on our website with your logo and link to your website. \n \n \n \n $5\,000 Festival Official Partner and Co-OrganizerWe are offering up to five full festival passes\, credit before the screenings\, special thank you credit as a festival official partner and co-organizer on our website with your logo and link to your website.\n Total\n \n Payment MethodPayPal Checkout\n American ExpressDiscoverMasterCardVisaSupported Credit Cards: American Express\, Discover\, MasterCard\, Visa\n Card Number\n \n \n \n Expiration Date\n \n \n Security Code\n \n  \n \n \n Cardholder Name\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nChecks are welcome. Please address them to: \nAmerican Romanian Cultural Society1931 E Lynn StSeattle\, WA 98112 TrailerBoss by Bogdan Mirică\n2022\, Thriller\, 126 min(Romania\, Luxembourg\, Sweden) \n \n Bogdan\, an innocuous ambulance driver\, becomes involved in an armed robbery to support his ailing mother's medical needs. While fleeing from the scene\, he accidentally hits a witness\, who ends... \n Bogdan\, an innocuous ambulance driver\, becomes involved in an armed robbery to support his ailing mother's medical needs. While fleeing from the scene\, he accidentally hits a witness\, who ends up in a coma. As Bogdan's paranoia intensifies\, he immerses himself further into the lives of his accomplices\, while causing major problems in his own. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerBetween Revolutions by Vlad Petri\n2023\, Hybrid documentary\, 70 min (Romania\, Croatia\, Qatar\, Iran) \n \n “Between Revolutions" illuminates the letters exchanged between Maria\, a Romanian\, and Zahra\, an Iranian\, who forge a deep connection while studying together at medical school in 1970s Bucharest. The letters... \n “Between Revolutions" illuminates the letters exchanged between Maria\, a Romanian\, and Zahra\, an Iranian\, who forge a deep connection while studying together at medical school in 1970s Bucharest. The letters poignantly illustrate the challenges faced by everyday people\, especially women\, during the Iranian Revolution and Ceaucescu's repressive rule in Romania\, juxtaposed with documentary footage portraying daily life and the widespread propaganda in their respective societies.  \n Read More\n \n TrailerPlayback by Iulia Rugină\n2023\, Documentary\, 77 min (Romania) \n \n In communist Romania of the 80s\, DJs were the only ones who brought outside music to the people. Tracks were trafficked on vinyl or secretly recorded from foreign radio stations... \n In communist Romania of the 80s\, DJs were the only ones who brought outside music to the people. Tracks were trafficked on vinyl or secretly recorded from foreign radio stations and played to dancing crowds. Playback offers a present-day portrait of one of the most famous DJs of those times while recreating a selective chronology of the musical events that changed the face of a society to the democracy of today. \n Read More\n \n TrailerTaxi Drivers by Bogdan Theodor Olteanu \n2022\, Dark comedy/drama\, 106 min (Romania\, Bulgaria) \n \n Taxi Drivers Liviu and Lică navigate the nocturnal life of Bucharest\, picking up passengers who turn to them for therapy\, political discussions\, assistance in criminal enterprises\, and more. Each driver... \n Taxi Drivers Liviu and Lică navigate the nocturnal life of Bucharest\, picking up passengers who turn to them for therapy\, political discussions\, assistance in criminal enterprises\, and more. Each driver must decide what's more important to him: the wild ride or their lives off the meter. \n Read More\n \n  TrailerMen of Deeds by Paul Negoescu \n2022\, Dark comedy/drama\, 106 min (Romania\, Bulgaria) \n \n Ilie settles in the countryside as a policeman\, seeking a more tranquil lifestyle. However\, his relaxed approach to his job entangles him in a violent crime. When he finally starts... \n Ilie settles in the countryside as a policeman\, seeking a more tranquil lifestyle. However\, his relaxed approach to his job entangles him in a violent crime. When he finally starts to become a justice seeker\, he quickly learns the unbecoming consequences of getting involved in others’ affairs. \n Read More\n \n  \n TrailerWhy Do They Write On Walls? by Alin Boeru2023\, Documentary\, 85 min (Romania) \n "Why Do They Write on the Walls?" delves into the history and ideology of Romanian street art and graffiti\, interwoven with interviews of the country's most renowned street artists. Started... \n "Why Do They Write on the Walls?" delves into the history and ideology of Romanian street art and graffiti\, interwoven with interviews of the country's most renowned street artists. Started as an objective analysis of a counterculture\, the film transforms into an intimate coming-of-age story of a young corporate employee who gets sucked into a world that is in total opposition to his own. \n Read More\n \n TrailerE Pericoloso Sporgersi by Nae Caranfil\n1993\, Romantic comedy\, 104 min(Romania) \n \n Horațiu\, an army recruit\, is hot on the heels after Cristina\, a senior in high school. She’s not necessarily against it\, but only after a mandatory engagement\, something he will... \n Horațiu\, an army recruit\, is hot on the heels after Cristina\, a senior in high school. She’s not necessarily against it\, but only after a mandatory engagement\, something he will soon give up on with the appearance in town of Dino\, a second-rate actor\, but reputed provincial Casanova. \n Read More\n \n TrailerPhoenix Har/Jar by Cornel Mihalache\n2022\, Music documentary\, 70 min (Romania) \n \n "Phoenix. Har/Jar" reunites the members of the legendary rock band from the period before they left communist Romania in 1977\, and highlights the important moments in the band's tumultuous chronology\,... \n "Phoenix. Har/Jar" reunites the members of the legendary rock band from the period before they left communist Romania in 1977\, and highlights the important moments in the band's tumultuous chronology\, from the first appearances in 1962 under the name "Sfinții" (the Saints) to the present day. The documentary presents\, for the first time\, the events that the musicians went through in the country\, the relationship with the Securitate\, the communist political police\, their departure from Romania and the band's activity before and after the 1989 Revolution. \n Read More\n \n TrailerThe Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters by Cătălina Tesăr and Dana Bunescu\n2022\, Documentary\, 84 min(Romania) \n \n The documentary follows Peli and Nina\, a young Roma couple striving to conceive a son in order to comply with local custom. While they live under tremendous strain and keep... \n The documentary follows Peli and Nina\, a young Roma couple striving to conceive a son in order to comply with local custom. While they live under tremendous strain and keep taking fertility and ultrasound checks\, their respective families are disputing their rights in the chalice pledged by Peli’s father to Nina’s family when they arranged the couple’s match. The intricacies of this marriage are teased out by Peli’s sister\, Bara\, who provides a gripping confession about the lived female condition in this community. \n Read More\n \n  Guests\nIulia RuginăIulia Rugină is a Bucharest based director and screenwriter. She has a BA and a MA degree in film and television directing at Bucharest’s National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC). In 2020 she completed a PhD on low budget cinema at the same university.\n\nShe has written and directed twelve shorts and three feature films\, among which Stuck on Christmas (2010)\, Love Building (2013)\, Dying from a Wound of Love (2014)\, Breaking News (2016). In 2018 she made her theater debut with the multimedia show Neverland\, which she wrote and directed. In 2020 she directed six of the eight episodes of the HBO Max series Ruxx.\n\nSince 2099 she is also actively involved in cultural management (through Control N\, the cultural NGO she has co-founded)\, and film education (through various projects she has participated in\, as a film tutor)\, having worked with professional screenwriters\, amateur filmmakers\, children\, ethnic minorities\, inmates and drug addicts.\n\nShe taught screenwriting at the National University of Theater and Film in Bucharest for 10 years\, before switching to script consultancy in national and international projects.\n\n  \nIulian PostelnicuIulian Postelnicu graduated from the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest with a Bachelor's Degree in acting.\n\nHe played several supporting characters in films such as Domestic (2012)\, A Decent Man (2018)\, and One Floor Below (2015) for which he received a Gopo nomination as Best Supporting Character. In 2019 he played the character of Vali in Arrest\, for which he won the Gopo Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.\n\nHis more recent characters include Costin in Otto the Barbarian (2020)\, nominated for the Gopo Award as Best Supporting Character\, Daniel in the HBO TV show Ruxx (2022)\, Sorin in the HBO TV show Spy/Master (2023)\, and Ilie in Men of Deeds (2022)\, for which he won the Best Performance Award at FIFF Namur\, the Outstanding Individual Performance Award at FilmFestival Cottbus\, and the Gopo Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.\n\nIn addition to his acting career\, Iulian Postelnicu worked as a writer for several Romanian TV shows like Mondenii\, SRC\, and Las Fierbinti. He co-wrote\, together with Bogdan George Apetri\, the screenplay for Unidentified (2020)\, for which they won the Gopo Award for Best Screenplay. Supporters\nPrivate donors\n\nSupporting sponsor · $1\,000 and more\n\n\n\n\n Mihai and Gabriela Aluaș\n\n\n Ana and Radu Bacioiu\n\n\n Cosmin and Elena Catrinescu\n\n\n\nFestival ambassador · $500 and more\n\n\n\n\n Dana and Catalin Cozmei\n\n\n Gabriel and Teodora Ghizila\n\n\n Andreea Larhs\n\n\n Tracy Sharpe and Roxana Arama\n\n\n Alexandrina Maicaneanu and Radu Simionescu\n\n\n Mary Sherhart\n\n\n Nick Voicu\n\n\n Gabriel and Raluca Hera\n\n\n NW Family Dental - Daciana Buse\, DDS\, MSD\n\n\n\nFestival benefactor · $250 and more\n\n\n\n\n \nIoana and Doru Nica\n\n\n Tudor and Otilia Baraboi\n\n\n James Augerot and Ileana Marin\n\n\n Allergy & Asthma Care of Manhattan\, PLLC\n\n\n Lavinia Serban\n\n\n Marius and Alina Popa\n\n\n Roxana Teodorescu\n\n\n Claudiu and Dana Raileanu\n\n\n Ramona and Marian Pungan\n\n\n Cristi and Irina Salvan\n\n\n Nicoleta and Andrei Zlati\n\n\n Isabella Fu and Radu Palanca\n\n\n Luana and Marian Stanescu\n\n\n\nFestival supporter · $100 and more\n\n\n\n\n Mihaela Giurca\n\n\n Camelia and Ciprian Clinciu\n\n\n Oana Stepan\n\n\n Laura Romanschi\n\n\n Cristina Houston\n\n\n Smaranda Lieuallen\n\n\n Corina Varlam\n\n\n Michele Anciaux Aoki\n\n\n Claudia Jensen\n\n\n Cristian and Ana Maria Ilac\n\n\n Catalin Alaci and Mirela Dinu\n\n\n Ligia Cicos\n\n\n George Roth\n\n\n Monica Poinescu\n\n\n Carmen and Bogdan Răutu\n\n\n Elizabeta and Adrian Iliescu\n\n\n Helene Kaplan\n\n\n Carl Winter\n\n\n Edward Blau\n\n\n Lavinia Serban\n\n\n NomNom Creative\n\n\n\nFestival friend · $50 and more\n\n\n\n\n Georgiana Lucache\n\n\n Magda Nica\n\n\n Sheila Speirs\n\n\n George Strajan\n\n\n Mihaela Armanasu\n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks · $25 and more\n\n\n\n\n Florina Gusu\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks · $10 and more\n\n\n\n\n Cristina Amaral\n\n\n Tatiana Chihai\n\n\n Anonymous URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-film-festival-seattle-10th-edition/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Siff-1600x900-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191115T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191118T220000 DTSTAMP:20260526T000534 CREATED:20230906T215953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T224158Z UID:10000041-1573844400-1574114400@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Film Festival Seattle- 6th Edition DESCRIPTION:STORIES OFF THE WALLJoin us in celebrating 30 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall! The 6th edition of the Romanian Film Festival\, entitled "One Eye Laughing\, One Eye Crying: Stories OFF the Wall"\, brings you Romanian and Eastern European cinema echoing the political\, economic and existential dilemmas that have reshaped Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War. Bounced OFF a wall that divided families\, generations and nations\, these stories harness the unifying power of film to create new bridges\, in a universal quest for shared meaning. We have made history together: from one of the smallest venues in town with 93 seats (in 2014)\, we have upgraded the festival to the largest auditoriums @ SIFF CINEMA Uptown with 275 seats (between 2015-2018). From about 750 viewers attending the first edition\, we have been reaching approximately 2\,300 people every year. From an ethnic film festival\, we have succeeded in creating an authentic Seattle experience where people of all backgrounds watch internationally acclaimed films\, learn something about Romanian heritage\, laugh and cry together\, proving that the festival has earned its title "One Eye Laughing\, One Eye Crying" Let us know if you would like to become our ARCS Official Festival Partner ($5\,000 & $ 10\,000)\, a Festival Sponsor or Ambassador ($500 & $1000 +). In case you decide to support our project and fundraising endeavors\, ARCS will acknowledge your contribution on all promotional materials – website\, Social Media\, festival booklet\, poster\, flyers\, and before each screening. etc. We are flexible and willing to create the sponsorship package that fits best your needs and budget. DO NOT MISS this one of a kind opportunity to gain more visibility\, grow\, have an impact\, and let your community know that you care and belong! \n \n Observing the Romanian Revolution: Some Personal Reflections\n \n\n\n \n WhenOct. 29\, 2019 at 01:30 PM - 29 Oct. 2019 at 03:00 PM \n \n \n WhereUniversity of Washington\, Room Th 317 \n \n\nThe Romanian revolution was for me\, my own personal revolution. It brought me – to use Andy Warhol’s expression - my ‘fifteen minutes of fame’ for it catapulted me and Romanian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London\, into the British public eye. This lecture is based on my experience of the 1989 revolution as a consultant to the BBC at the time\, an experience that included visual and audio monitoring of events in Romania in London between 14 December 1989 and 10 January 1990. \nAs 'anchor' in London I had access to the reports from the major international news agencies as they came through to the BBC on a teleprinter\, as well as to television 'feeds' from camera crews from thirty-six international TV companies dispersed around Romania. Among them were stations from the USSR\, Libya\, France\, West Germany\, Hungary\, and Britain. I was thus indirect witness to the meetings convoked on 22 December in the central squares of the cities and major towns of Romania – Bucharest\, Timișoara\, Pitești\, Cluj-Napoca\, Oradea\, Arad\, Bacău\, Constanța\, Suceava - ostensibly to show support for Ceaușescu\, and to filmed events that followed. \nAfter arriving in Bucharest on 31 December\, I accompanied three teams of BBC reporters and cameramen throughout the city\, translating interviews carried out by the team with Ion Iliescu\, Silviu Brucan\, Ion Caramitru\, Mircea Dinescu\, and many other significant actors in the aftermath of Ceaușescu’s overthrow. The latter included a one-to-one meeting with General Victor Stanculescu. My reflections are based in part on this direct contact." Moon Hotel Kabul by Anca Damian2018\, Drama\, 100 minutesWhenNov. 15\, 2019 at 07:00 PM - 15 Nov. 2019 at 08:55 PM Synopsis Ivan Semciuc (played by Florin Piersic Jr.) is a cynical investigative journalist. He is skillfully combining truth and fiction in his reports. Then comes a day when something similar occurs in his own life: at the end of a mission in Kabul\, he has a one night stand with Ioana\, the translator. The event is seemingly meaningless\, but the next day\, back to Bucharest\, Ivan finds out that Ioana died with her wrists cut. The unshakable routine of his personal life enters a profound revolution\, as Ioana is haunting him\, more present in her death then she was during life. The film is raising questions about truth\, love and the price we decide to pay for them. Winner of The Best Director Warsaw International Film Festival 2018. Romanian Role Models: ARCS Summer Camp Shorts by Iulia Rugină2019\, Shorts\, 45 minutes WhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 09:30 AM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 11:30 AM Synopsis These shorts were made by Romanian American students during ARCS Summer Camp (2nd edition) hosted by Ellison Center at University of Washington\, under the instruction of director Iulia Rugină and actress Ioana Flora. Every group received a prompt for their short\, related to four Romanian role models: Nadia Comăneci\, Queen Marie\, George Enescu and Constantin Brâncusi. Making of by Adriana Guiman. A Distance by Teodora Totoiu2018\, Drama\, 26 minutesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 09:30 AM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 11:30 AMSynopsisThree Romanian women reunite on a farm in Transylvania and struggle to reconnect while mourning the death of a loved one. This is a tale about identity\, roots\, and transgenerational dialogue. The Call by Anca Damian2018\, Animation\, 10 minutesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 09:30 AM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 11:30 AM SynopsisAn aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water\, a new world reveals. The phone\, on a chair\, connects her with her son and is the only link to the real world. Winner of Best Short Film\, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019\, and the Jury Prize\, Hong Kong International Film Festival\, 2019. My Father's Shoes / Opinci by Anton and Damian Groves2019\, Animation\, 18 minutesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 09:30 AM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 11:30 AM SynopsisA film based on a true story about a record breaking globetrotter and single father\, Dan Dumitru\, who attempts to explain death\, courage and the absence of her mother to his young daughter\, Steliana. Winner of Best Short Film\, Transilvania International Film Festival\, 2019. Toto and His Sisters by Alexandru Nanau2014\, documentary\, 94 minutesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 11:50 AM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 01:35 PM SynopsisThis multi award-winning documentary tells us the story of Toto (10) and his sisters Ana (17) and Andreea (15) who conquer life on their own during their mother's imprisonment. Toto passionately learns dancing\, reading and writing\, while his sisters try to keep the family together in a world that has long forgotten what the innocence of childhood should be. What happens when we discover that we can get more from life than our parents have to offer? Toto Horvat’s story tells us about the importance of art and education in shaping the future generations and empowering our youth to be change makers\, against all odds. Toto came to Seattle for the 2ndedition of ARCS Summer Camp for Romanian heritage students\, hosted on UW Campus. His internship was sponsored by the UiPath Foundation\, whose executive director Raluca Negulescu-Balaci will attend the screening and Q& A session to lead a debate about inspiring models of social change.  Q&A and Debate: Dismantling Walls in Our SocietiesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 01:30 PM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 02:30 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown   WhatPanelists: Akila Somasegar (Philantropist\, GirlUp\, Seattle); Magda Matache (Instructor and Director of the Roma Program\, Harvard University)\, Cristiana Grigore (Founder Roma Peoples Project\, Columbia University)\, Raluca Negulescu-Balaci (Executive Director\, UiPath Foundation); and Pulitzer Prize winner for journalism Jacqui Banaszynsk. The debate will follow the screening of the social documentary Toto and his sisters (dir Alexandru Nanau) and aims to shed light on the unseen potential of children struggling with inequality\, as well as the challenges they encounter navigating social stigma and economic marginalization. We will explore and share a significant number of perspectives and impactful ways that can tackle poverty for children around the world\, with a focus on Romania\, India and the US. Looking at the accelerated pace of change of the Fourth Industrial Revolution\, we will discuss the role of technology in empowering underprivileged children to become agents of social progress and advancement. About UiPath Foundation  Founded by UiPath in January 2019\, UiPath Foundation is an independent non-governmental\, non-profit\, non-political and non-religious organization\, that aims to empower underprivileged children to reach their potential and thrive together with their communities through equal access to education.  More details: https://www.uipath.com/company/foundation The Father by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov2019\, Comedy/Drama\, 87 minutesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 02:55 PM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 04:15 PM SynopsisA day after Valentina’s passing\, her bereaved husband Vassil and son Pavel discover that she persistently keeps trying to call the neighbor on the phone. A sucker for the supernatural\, Vassil sets out on a trip to meet a famous medium\, forcing his estranged son Pavel to tag along and make sure his nutty old dad stays out of harm’s way. The unhinged journey that follows helps them face the guilt they feel towards the one they have lost\, and rediscover their relationship to each other. Winner of the Crystal Globe\, Karlovy Vary Czech Film Festival\, 2019.   The Distance Between Me and Me by Mona Nicoară2018\, documentary\, 89 minutesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 04:45 PM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 06:10 PM SynopsisWe all wrestle with our past. Some more than others. Romanian Jewish avant-garde poet\, musician\, visual artist\, femme fatale\, prodigious drinker and terminal smoker Nina Cassian had more than most to wrestle with: her refuge in the Communist underground during the Fascist 1940s put her first in complicit proximity to the Stalinist regime of the 1950s\, then propelled her on a collision course with the Ceaușescu regime in the 1970s\, and eventually sent her into an unwanted New York exile in 1985\, when her samizdat poems led to a secret police murder. An intensely personal film about art\, belief\, and politics\, The Distance Between Me and Me looks at the friction between individual memory and official archives\, between our present reality and the narratives we construct about our former selves by setting Nina’s words during her last year of life against a rich archive of films\, music\, poems\, official television appearances\, never-before-seen private recordings\, and secret police surveillance materials. The Whistlers/La Gomera by Corneliu Porumboiu2019\, drama\, 97 minutesWhenNov. 16\, 2019 at 07:00 PM - 16 Nov. 2019 at 08:32 PM SynopsisIn The Whistlers\, not everything is as it seems for Cristi\, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist\, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption\, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off. The film was nominated for Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2019\, and is Romania’s proposal for the 2020 Oscars.  That Trip We Took with Dad by Anca Miruna Lăzărescu2016\, comedy drama\, 111 minutesWhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 12:10 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 02:05 PM SynopsisThe turbulent year of 1968 and the “Prague Spring” set the scene for the moving story of this film. A Romanian German family living in the heart of Transylvania starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic. Two brothers with very different personalities take their weary father to have surgery abroad\, which they hope would help restore the family’s lost harmony. Caught in the middle of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and closed in by the Soviet tanks\, the men suddenly find themselves in West-Germany. How much sacrifice can they take until they can return back home to the rest of their family? Winner of 8 international prizes\, including Federico Fellini Award\, Tiburon International Film Festival\, 2017.  Donbass by Sergey Loznitsa2018\, Drama\, 122 minutesWhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 02:25 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 04:50 PM SynopsisIn the Donbass\, a region of Eastern Ukraine\, a hybrid war takes place\, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. War is called peace\, propaganda is uttered as truth\, and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the region unfolds as a chain of curious adventures\, where the grotesque and dramatic are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region\, one country\, or one political system. It is about a world lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us. Winner of 9 international prizes\, including Un Certain Regard\, Cannes\, 2018. One More One Less/Plus Minus Unu by Ion Borsh2018\, Drama\, 28 minutesWhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 05:10 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 06:50 PM SynopsisThis film tells the story of a resident doctor who discovers a case of malpractice committed by a more experienced colleague. He decides to fight against a lawless system and take a risk that may mean losing his job. Paparuda by Lucia Lupu2015\, Drama\, 15 minutes WhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 05:10 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 06:50 PM SynopsisIn a village hit by drought\, Dumitru starts a quest for water. Ioana\, the girl who accompanies him in this pursuit\, is a silent witness of baseness of people that appear on their road. Instead of this human aridness\, Dumitru finds water in the place he least expected. When Saturn Returns by Mihai Bruma2018\, Drama\, 17 minutesWhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 05:10 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 06:50 PM SynopsisWhile working in a store Radu raps to himself\, preparing for that night's concert. Everything would have gone smoothly if it were not for the girl he saw; recognizing her after 16 years -- his first love. Billion/Miliard by Evgheni Dudceac2017\, Adventure/Comedy\, 21 minutesWhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 05:10 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 06:50 PM SynopsisAn allegory of the great Moldovan bank robbery -- in 2015\, $1 billion has vanished from three of Moldova’s national banks\, a mystery that has thrown the already struggling country into an even deeper crisis. The Escape by Andrei Gruzsnickzki2013\, Drama\, 107 minutesWhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 07:10 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 09:15 PM SynopsisRomania\, 1984. The decision of a mathematician to publish a paper in a journal of an American university\, without asking the permission of the communist authorities\, will trigger a chain of events that will change the lives of those around him. After all\, there are no decisions without consequences. Florin Piersic Jr. plays the Securitate detective who investigates the case. He received the Best Actor of the Year (Gopo Awards) for his brilliant interpretation. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Rome Film Fest in 2013. The Christmas Gift by Bogdan Mureșan2018\, Drama/History\, 23 minutesWhenNov. 17\, 2019 at 07:10 PM - 17 Nov. 2019 at 09:15 PM SynopsisOn the 20th of December\, 1989\, a few days after Ceausescu's bloody repression in Timisoara\, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he finds out that his young son has mailed a wish list to Santa requesting a present for his father -- his desire to see Ceausescu dead. Winner of numerous prizes\, including Best of Fest & Jury Award\, Palm Springs International ShortFest\, 2019\, and Grand Prix\, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival\, 2019. Freak Show by Florin Piersic Jr2019\, one-man show\, 120 minutesWhenNov. 18\, 2019 at 07:30 PM - 18 Nov. 2019 at 09:30 PM WhereKirkland Performance Center SynopsisPerformed by one of Romania’s most prominent and prolific young actors\, Freak Show brings to life characters depicting the tragi-comic transition from communism to democracy. EVENT IN ROMANIAN. Freak Show\, written\, directed and performed by Florin Piersic Jr\, is a dynamic tour de force that keeps the audience with bated breath for almost two hours. Florin Piersic Jr plays 13 characters (a fake billionaire\, worker\, banker\, retiree\, TV producer\, professor\, beggar\, among others). You will watch a versatile actor who continuously changes parts in a hallucinatory chain of transformations. GuestsFlorin Piersic Jr.Born in 1968\, Florin Piersic Jr. is a Romanian actor\, director and writer. He translated\, directed and performed in "Dice and Cards" by Sam Henry Kass\, "Opposites Attract" by Bruce Kane\, "Tom and Jerry" by Rick Cleveland\, "Sex Drugs Rock and Roll"\, by Eric Bogosian\, "Brothers!" by Dave Williams. In 2013\, he wrote and produced the one-man-show entitled "Freak Show".\n\nHis performance (13 characters) has been acclaimed both by the public and the critics. Florin Piersic Jr. is the author of the novel "Romantic Porno" (2011)\, as well as of the collection of short stories entitled "Complete Works - Volume One" (2009) and "Complete Works - Volume Two" (2015).\n\nCurrently\, Florin Piersic Jr. is working on the feature film called "Nothing About Love"\, written and directed by himself. Florin Piersic Jr. has received numerous prestigious awards\, the most recent including the Best Actor of the Year for "The Escape" in 2015 at Gopo Awards; the Jury's Prize (for "Freak Show") at Festco Comedy Festival\, Bucharest in 2014\, the Best Experimental Movie ( for "Killing Time") at UCIN (Romanian Cinematographers' Union) in 2013.\n\nFlorin Piersic Jr. plays the lead part in Comrade Detective\, an American buddy cop series created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka released on Amazon Video in 2017.\n\nhttp://www.piersicjr.com\n\nFor the Romanian-speaking audience\, Florin will perform a one-man show Freak Show on November 18\, at Kirkland Performance Center at 7:30pm. For tickets and information: http://www.kpcenter.org/event/freak-show/ Mona NicoarăMona Nicoară is a filmmaker\, curator\, writer\, and educator. She started working in film in 1997 as an Associate Producer for Children Underground\, which received the Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Her directorial debut\, Our School\, premiered in the US at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival\, went on to over 70 festivals worldwide\, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best US Feature at AFI SilverDocs. Her latest film\, The Distance between Me and Me\, received the audience award at Films de Cannes à Bucarest\, screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Trieste\, and is currently distributed in cinemas in Romania. Nicoară also works as a festival programmer\, and has been teaching film\, writing\, and literature at Columbia University\, the Cooper Union\, New York University\, and Rutgers. Her writings have been published in The Guardian\, Decât o revistă\, Dilema\, and Scena 9\, among others.\n\nwww.monanicoara.com\n\n  Teodora TotoiuTeodora Totoiu is a Romanian-American cinematographer based in Seattle. Her background in anthropology and photography inspires her creative approach when shooting scripted narrative and documentary film. With a passion for visual storytelling\, she enjoys collaborating and working creatively to echo each director's vision through texture and movement that best supports story. Her recent work includes "Waterschool" (2017)\, which is currently streaming on Netflix\, "Francesco" (2020) directed by Academy Award-nominated Evgeny Afineevsky and most recently\, "Lady Cameraman" (2020) which premiered at EnergaCAMERIMAGE in November 2020. Her work spans internationally with projects in Brazil\, Italy\, Greece\, Czech Republic\, Austria\, Romania\, Uganda\, India\, China and across the U.S.\n\n  Ion BorshIon Borsh was born in 1990 in Chisinau\, Moldova. He graduated Acting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chisinau\, in 2013. ”Plus Minus One” is his debut short film as a director. He starred in ”What a Wonderful World”\, ”Beautiful Corruption”\, ”Salix Caprea” and ”Opus Nocturn 2”\, also he was 1stAD in the short movie ”Now”.\n\nDirector Statement\n\n"Through the movie Plus Minus One I want to show the situation of the medical system in my country\, the attitude of the medical staff towards their patients\, and the conditions imposed on the young resident doctors who try to fight against a corrupted system. The storyline is based on real facts\, situations that most of us have had to deal with. The characters resemble us\, our confrontation\, on a daily basis\, with the acute problems of our society. Our national cinematography should reflect more on these matters in order to create social change and put an end to corruption". Monica FilimonMonica Filimon was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature by Rutgers University. She is Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College\, CUNY. She has published articles on French\, German\, and Romanian films. Her research focuses on the New Romanian Cinema\, its sources\, evolution\, and major representatives. Her first book Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the Profane World was published by the University of Illinois Press in February 2017. She is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Corneliu Porumboiu: Notes on the Absurd. Raluca Negulescu-Balaci Raluca Negulescu-Balaci is the Executive Director of UiPath Foundation\, a global non-profit organization\, founded by UiPath in January 2019\, to empower underprivileged children from Romania and India to reach their potential through equal access to quality education. Previously\, Raluca coordinated comprehensive educational programs under the umbrella of the Policy Center for Roma and Minorities for 9 years. In 2007\, she worked as a Junior Consultant in a World Bank-supported national program\, focused on enabling 250 disadvantaged communities in Romania to keep up with fast-technological challenges.  In 2013\, Raluca was a Legislative Fellow in the US Department of State professional program “Building grassroots democracy in minority communities” and she received the Annual Human Rights Award of the Embassy of France in Romania\, for her local women empowerment initiative – Mothers' Club. Raluca is a fellow of Aspen Institute Romania’s Young Leaders Program and a member of the Global Shapers Community\, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Akila SomasegarAkila Somasegar is a finance professional and a philanthropist\, with a specific interest in empowering women and children. She manages her family foundation through which she drives her philanthropic activities\, both in the US and in several developing countries. In 2014\, she was chosen to be an advisory board member for the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up initiative for educating and empowering the girls around the world. The “Girl Up” initiative currently has investment projects in Ethiopia\, Guatemala\, Malawi\, Liberia\, India and Uganda. Akila launched Girl Up in Sri Lanka with the help of the Sri Lankan Ministry of Children’s welfare and Sri Lankan ministry of Education. A nationwide launch was held in Colombo in October of 2015. Akila Somasegar is also a Board Director for YWCA Seattle|King|Snohomish and Bellevue Life Spring.  Margareta (Magda) MatacheMargareta (Magda) Matache is a Roma rights activist and scholar from Romania\, director of the Roma Program at Harvard FXB\,  and also a Harvard instructor. From 2005 to 2012\, Margareta Matache was the Executive Director of Romani CRISS\, a leading Roma rights organization that defends the rights of Roma. In 2012 she was awarded a Hauser postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard FXB where she founded the Roma Program. In Spring 2017 she co-edited Realizing Roma Rights\, an investigation of anti-Roma racism\, with the goal to set the foundations for a more inclusive Europe. Her other publications and research have ranged from the rights and agency of Romani children and adolescents to early childhood development\, anti-Roma racism\, reparations\, segregation in education\, and participatory action research. Cristiana GrigoreCristiana Grigore is a writer\, research scholar and the founder of the Roma Peoples Project at Columbia University\, an initiative that spotlights Roma peoples and expands Roma studies by examining topics such as identity and stigma\, mobility and displacement. Herself a Roma—a member of Europe's largest minority with approximately one million Roma living in the US— she has firsthand experience with internalized stigma and concealing one's ethnicity.\n\nUpon arriving in the United States in 2006\, Cristiana found a more conducive environment in which to express her Roma identity. She is writing a book that explores how her immersion in American culture enabled her to grapple more fully with her Roma/Gypsy ethnicity. Her writing was published by the New York Times and she writes periodic op-eds for Newsweek and other media channels. Her work has been featured by Vogue\, CNN\, Al Jazeera America\, PRI\, and Voice of America\, among other outlets.\n\nA Fulbright Scholar from Romania\, Cristiana graduated from Vanderbilt University with an MA in International Education Policy and Management in December 2012. She earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Bucharest in 2007. Most recently she is part of an advisory group for the National Gallery of Art on a topic related to Roma in the Arts.\n\n   Jacqui BanaszynskiAward-winning journalist Jacqui Banaszynski is an emerita professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and faculty fellow at the world-renowned Poynter Institute. She serves as editor of Nieman Storyboard\, a global website which celebrates and examines the art and craft of narrative journalism.\n\nBanaszynski’s newspaper career took her to all seven continents\, including three trips to Antarctica. She has written about corruption and crime\, beauty pageants and popes\, AIDS and the Olympics\, dogsled expeditions and refugee camps\, labor strikes and political strife\, traffic fatalities and family tragedies. While at the St. Paul Pioneer Press\, her series “AIDS in the Heartland” won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.  She was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer in international reporting for coverage of the Ethiopian famine and won the nation’s top deadline sports reporting award for coverage of the 1988 Olympics.\n\nBanaszynski has edited numerous award-winning projects\, including projects that won ASNE Best Writing\, Ernie Pyle Human Interest Writing and national business and investigative prizes.  In 2008\, she was named to the Association of Sunday and Features Editors Features Hall of Fame.  She now coaches reporters\, writers and storytellers in newsrooms and at workshops around the world. URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-film-festival-6th-edition/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/69881402_10157768708319282_9055499323080441856_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181102T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181104T180000 DTSTAMP:20260526T000534 CREATED:20230906T220139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T222218Z UID:10000042-1541181600-1541354400@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Film Festival - 5th Edition DESCRIPTION:The Romanian Film Festival (5th Edition): "One Eye Laughing\, One Eye Crying: Uncanny Worlds"November 2-4\, 2018\, SIFF Cinema UptownJoin us on an exploration of the blurred frontiers of reality through Romanian films\, celebrating the 5th Edition of the Romanian Film Festival in Seattle. In tune with the Halloween spirit of the first week in November\, take an imaginary journey to Romania\, and its "Uncanny Worlds". We plan to challenge values and beliefs in relation to the unusual\, unfamiliar\, ineffable\, incomprehensible\, unfathomable\, inscrutable\, or the unclear\, inviting you to a visual feast of mesmerizing film features and documentaries. You will find out that Romanian films\, more than ever\, reflect the uncanny aspects of reality\, history\, politics\, everyday life\, as well as spirituality\, folklore\, and traditions; in a word\, the uncanny essence of human nature. We have made history together: from one of the smallest venues in town with 93 seats (in 2014)\, we have upgraded the festival to the largest auditoriums @ SIFF CINEMA Uptown with 275 seats (between 2015-2017). From about 750 people attending the first edition\, last year we reached a record of approximately 2\,300 people\, including those who attended the pre and post events. From an ethnic film festival\, we have succeeded in making it a Seattle festival where people of all backgrounds watch internationally acclaimed films\, learn something about Romanian heritage\, and laugh and cry together proving that the festival has earned its title "One Eye Laughing\, One Eye Crying". Let us know if you would like to become our business partner ($1\,000 +) or sponsor ($500+). In case you decide to support our beautiful project and fundraising endeavors\, ARCS will acknowledge your contribution on all promotional materials – website\, Facebook\, poster\, flyers\, and before each screening. DO NOT MISS this one of a kind opportunity to gain more visibility\, grow\, have an impact\, and let your community know that you care and belong! All screenings will take place @ SIFF Cinema Uptown. The Opening Gala will take place at SIFF Film Center. Daniel Ursache's Exhibit will be @ A/NT Gallery. Please consult the map for more details. FilmsThe Wanderers\, The Quest of the Demon Hunter by Dragoș Buliga2017\, Drama/Horror/Thriller\, 106 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown SynopsisThe film follows famed ghost and demon hunter Louis (Armand Assante) as he takes on a new case in modern day Romania. Hired by the mysterious heiress of the Zalesky Castle\, the hardened American embarks on this adventure with an Israeli journalist (Lior Ashkenazi)\, two Korean reality television stars in search of sensational ghost stories\, and a young\, skeptical guide Sorana (Raluca Aprodu). As he starts hunting the evil lurking in plain daylight in the frightened community around the Transylvanian castle\, Louis faces one of the biggest challenges of his career and life. Untamed Romania by Tom Barton-Humphreys2018\, documentary\, 90 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown Synopsis"Untamed Romania" explores "one of the wildest and most beautiful parts of Europe"\, from the mysterious Danube Delta to the unknown Carpathian forests. Wolves\, bears\, and lynx roam the vast forests where almost all the original flora and fauna still exist left untouched since time immemorial. There is no other location of comparable size with such pristine nature in Europe. This unique documentary is narrated by award-winning Romanian film and stage actor Victor Rebengiuc. The Miracle of Tekir by Ruxandra Zenide2015\, Mystery/Drama\, 90 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown SynopsisUnmarried Mara has mysteriously fallen pregnant. This poses a problem for her fellow residents of the small fishing village on the Danube delta\, where Europe's second longest river enters the Black Sea\, and religion mixes with superstition like earth with water. Expelled from her village\, Mara finds employment at the nearby spa hotel Tekir where infertile women are treated with the sacred Danube mud. When her world collides with that of the well-to-do\, eccentric cosmopolitan Lili\, magic combines with power and tradition with modernity to become the answer to Lili's desire to have children – and Mara's "immaculate" conception. The Treasure by Corneliu Porumboiu2015\, comedy\, 89 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown SynopsisCosti leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read stories to his 6-year-old son to help him sleep. Their favorite is Robin Hood\, and Costi sees himself as a similar hero - righter of wrongs and defender of the oppressed. One evening\, his neighbor Negoescu pays him an unexpected visit and shares a secret. He suspects that his great-grandfather buried a treasure in his garden at the time of the Communist takeover in the 1940s. If Costi hires a metal detector to help locate the treasure\, he will give him half of whatever they get. The two accomplices have one weekend to locate the loot and many obstacles in their path. With each layer of soil they unearth\, memories of the past and entire chapters of Romanian history come to light. Porumboiu’s film adds intricate touches of the uncanny to everyday life\, prompting us to question what unfathomable treasure we are hunting ourselves. Winner of A Certain Regard the 2015 International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize at Cannes. One Step behind the Seraphim by Daniel Sandu2017\, drama\, 150 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown   SynopsisThe feature tells the story of Gabriel (Stefan Iancu)\, a teenager who wants to be a priest and has been recently admitted to a theological seminary. Trying to fit in first\, he is fast to discover a world of fear and abuse. Lying\, cheating and betraying are things the freshmen have to master in order to survive their seniors’ constant bullying and the game of power and manipulation fed by a tough teacher (remarkably played by Vlad Ivanov). This caustic coming of age movie calls to mind boarding-school-set movies where oppression and brutality are widespread. After having taken 10 years to film\, "One Step behind the Seraphim" swept Romania’s Gopo Awards in 2018. It won 8 statuettes\, including the most important trophies: Best Film\, Best Film Director\, Best Script\, Best Debut Feature\, Best Leading Actor\, Best Picture and Young Hope\, together with the Award of the Romanian Society of Cinematographers. It also received the Audience Award at Transylvania Film Festival. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guest Daniel Sandu. There by Bogdan Darev2018\, documentary\, 90 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown Synopsis In 1995\, Seattle-based director and storyteller Bogdan was a teenager. He is now forty-one. After 23 years as an immigrant in the US\, Bogdan comes back to Bulgaria for the first time. Who will he meet and where will his memories take him? Is his feeling truth\, or is it just nostalgia? This screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guest Bogdan.   Miss Christina by Alexandru Mafte2013\, Mystery/Gothic Horror\, 101 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown Synopsis"Miss Christina" is the dramatization of a 1936 novella written by the famous Romanian author and historian of religions\, Mircea Eliade. Considered the first Romanian title of the Gothic genre\, the film brings its distinct supernatural touch\, being deeply rooted in East-European folklore and pagan mythology. It tells the love story between a human and the vampire-like character of a gorgeous young woman who died a violent death in the bloody peasant revolts in Romania in 1907. Known in Romanian as a moroior a strigoi\, Miss Christina comes back from the grave to seduce her niece's fiancé\, Egor (played by Tudor Istodor)\, during his first visit to the countryside family mansion. The lady of the house (played by Maia Morgenstern) worships her dead sister’s memory\, even to the detriment of her own daughter's sanity and safety. When Egor realizes that his fiancée's life is endangered by his unexplainable lust for Miss Christina\, he decides to fight the moroi. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guest Maia Morgenstern. Planeta Petrila by Andrei Dăscălescu2016\, documentary\, 80 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown SynopsisAs miners in the Romanian town of Petrila go down the mine for the last time\, artist and ex-miner Ion Barbu is working on his mission: preserving Petrila's coal mine as cultural heritage. But in accordance with EU agreements on the closure of the mine\, the authorities are committed to demolishing it completely. This would bring an abrupt end to a history with which the mining community still feels a deep affinity\, but one that doesn't appear to interest the politicians in the slightest. Barbu refuses to back down\, doing all he can to keep the memories of the mine and the identity of his hometown alive. He covers the mine buildings in murals and organizes performances\, street protests\, an underground theatre festival and a clandestine film. His resolve is a match for that of his opponents\, and his art\, which samples freely from art history\, is charged with an absurdism well suited to the situation. Nonetheless\, his actions prove to be more than just a frivolous protest; they become a channel for the collective mourning of a redundant industry. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guest Andrei Dăscălescu. D_love by Elena Beuca2018\, comedy/drama\, 96 minutesWhenNov. 2\, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 04 Nov. 2018 at 06:00 PM WhereSIFF Cinema Uptown SynopsisA couple with longstanding marital issues lands at LAX after a getaway in Europe. For a few years now\, Stefania has been working a job she detests and Dan hasn't worked at all. Their palpable strain is only made worse when a Danish vagabond asks for a ride to the busiest freeway in Los Angeles. Stefania doesn’t want to have anything to do with the hippie looking wanderer\, but her husband Dan\, much to his wife's horror\, offers to bring this total stranger to their home. How will their encounter with this uncanny character affect their marriage? The director invites you on a 3 day journey\, seen through Stefania’s eyes\, to view and discover that desired change doesn’t always come in the package that we want or expect. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guest Elena Beuca.   Guests\nMaia MorgensternLegendary Maia Morgenstern has often been described as the "symbol of Romanian theater and film" (Florin Mitu\, AMOS News). Born in a Jewish family in Bucharest\, she studied at the Film and Theatre Academy and went on to become a member of the repertory companies of three prominent Romanian theater organizations — the Piatra Neamț National Theatre (1985 – 1988)\, the State Jewish Theatre (1988 – present) and the National Theatre (1990 – present). She made her film debut in 1983 with Too Hot for May/ Prea cald pentru luna mai. Since then she has appeared in dozens of Romanian feature films\, as well as several international productions\, including the English-language Nostradamus (1994)\, starring F. Murray Abraham and Tchéky Karyo; the Hungarian-language Siódmy pokój (1995) \, the English/Greek language Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)\, in which she co-starred with Harvey Keitel\, and the French language feature Marie\, Nonna\, la vierge et moi (2000). Morgenstern also took on a role in the USA Network TV movie Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000). She is probably best known for the role of Mary\, mother of Jesus\, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ(2004). She performed her role in Aramaic\, but unlike the other actors in the cast of the film\, she simply memorized her lines phonetically. In Romania\, she has been nationally known since her 1992 role as Nela in Lucian Pintilie’s Balanța/ The Oak\, set during the waning days of Communist Romania.\n\nDaniel SanduI was born in Piatra-Neamț\, in 1977. I've always loved watching movies. During communism\, thanks to my parents\, I saw many American movies on videotapes. In high school\, I thought I wanted to become a priest\, so I entered the theological seminary. There I discovered that I actually wanted to work in the world of film. I studied film at Media University. After I got my license\, I worked in television as a screenwriter and director of sitcoms. In 2009\, due to the economic crisis\, the sitcoms abruptly ceased to be produced. In fact\, all TV features stopped. So I started making short films\, with the little money I had.  My friends also helped me out. I started getting a few awards at film festivals which gave me more courage to work on my first feature film - One Step Behind the Seraphim (2017). It took me about 10 years to finish\, from the moment I had a deal with the producer\, until the day the film was released. In the meantime\, among other things\, I had written the script of my new film – The Father Who Moves Mountains - a film that I made in about 6 years\, produced by Cristian Mungiu (Mobra Films). During this time\, I worked on my other future projects.\n\n \n\nAndrei DăscălescuAndrei Dăscălescu is an established Romanian documentary film director\, cinematographer and editor. His first two feature documentaries\, Planet Petrila (2016) and Constantin and Elena (2008) have won prestigious awards (including awards at IDFA and Sarajevo Film Festival)\, have been selected in major international film festivals across the world (IDFA\, San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Krakow\, DocLisboa\, Docaviv\, Sarajevo\, Montpellier etc.). Andrei was nominated 4 times and won "Best Documentary Award" in 2018 at the Gopo Awards (the Romanian equivalent to Academy Awards) with his documentary\, Planet Petrila. His third documentary\, Holy Father (2020) premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival\, where it won the Jury Award. It also won the Audience Award at Astra Film Festival (Sibiu\, Romania)\, the Best Director Award at Qara Film Festival (Almaty\, Kazakhstan) and has been screened at festival such as Black Nights Tallinn\, Magnificent 7 Belgrade\, Go East Wiesbaden\, Trieste Film Festival\, Zagreb Dox and others). He is the founder and owner of FilmLab production company since 2007.\n\nElena BeucaElena Beuca grew up in a small farm town in Transylvania\, Romania. After graduating from Law School in Bucharest and working in real estate for a few years\, she became interested in the entertainment industry and decided to move to Hollywood. Elena studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She studied with Ivanna Chubuck\, the famous acting coach for Charlize Theron\, Halle Berry\, Brad Pitt. She has appeared in the HBO comedy series "Enlightened"\, the Fox Network action drama "Gang Related" and Nickelodeon's "Victorious". Elena has always loved a good challenge\, so when a friend introduced her to the 168-film festival (making a short film in a week ) she decided to jump in and direct her first short film. She loved it so much\, that she decided to do it again and again and again.. D-love is her first feature film. She is currently working on another feature film that will be shot in the fall in South Carolina.\n\nVivian HuaVivian Hua (華婷婷) is a writer\, filmmaker\, and organizer who is fascinated by synthesizing divergent schools of thought. She is the Executive Director at Northwest Film Forum\, a co-founder of the civil rights film series\, The Seventh Art Stand\, and Editor-in-Chief of the socially-conscious long-form arts publication\, REDEFINE. Much of her work unifies her interest in the metaphysical with her belief that art can positively transform the self and society.\n\nMaryna AjajaProgrammer/selector since 1997 for SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival)\, a twenty-five day film festival of over 400 films\, that includes features\, documentaries\, archival films\, animation\, experimental\, short films\, and film forums. Ajaja is a writer and a poet and specializes in films from Eastern/Central European\, Russia\, Baltics\, Central asia\, and Caucuses. Born in Hollywood\, she makes her home in Seattle\, Washington since 1969.\n\nDaniel UrsacheDaniel Ursache is an illustrator\, painter\, print-maker and graphic designer. He was born in Romania\, in Turnu Severin\, a Romanian city on the northern bank of the Danube. He was raised in Constanta\, ancient Greek and then Roman colony on the Black Sea coast\, explored geology in Iasi\, the former capital of the Moldavian kingdom and studied fine arts in Timisoara\, briefly the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 2004 he got stranded on the island of Montreal\, in the middle of St. Lawrence river and did his post-graduate studies there. He has exhibited his work in Canada\, Romania\, Poland\, Yugoslavia\, Holland\, Germany and Italy. URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-film-festival-5th-edition/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/203-733142792.jpg.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180611 DTSTAMP:20260526T000534 CREATED:20230906T220720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T001724Z UID:10000044-1525305600-1528675199@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Films at SIFF 2018\, sponsored by ARCS DESCRIPTION:Thank you all for attending! URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-films-at-siff-2018-sponsored-by-arcs/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SIFF2018_Vertical_black_ckxtg1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171128 DTSTAMP:20260526T000534 CREATED:20230906T221455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T170358Z UID:10000046-1511740800-1511827199@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Film Festival - 4th Edition DESCRIPTION:The Romanian Film Festival in Seattle "One Eye Laughing\, One Eye Crying: Tales from Afar"\, 4th EditionWe are thrilled to present our special guests at the 4th edition of the Romanian Film Festival! Director Paul Negoescu (Two Lottery Tickets\, director Iulia Rugina (Breaking News)\, actress Ioana Flora (Breaking News & Back Home) from Romania; director Bogdan Darev (This Baba)\, singer Penka Encheva and producer Mary Sherhart from Seattle\, will attend Q&A sessions after the screenings\, moderated by film critic and author Monica Filimon ("Cristi Puiu"\, University of Illinois Press 2017). Pre-Event: Cântece de departe/Songs from Afar\, a concert that brings together Lucian Ban & Elevation Quartet from New York (jazz)\, Angela Drăghicescu (chamber music pianist from Seattle)\, and Gavril Țărmure (singer of Romanian Folk music from Bistrița) @ Seattle Art Museum on November 10\, 7:30 PM. FilmsTwo Lottery Tickets by Paul Negoescu2016\, Comedy\, 86 minutes \n Three men from a provincial town are in urgent need of money and decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery\, but soon after their ticket gets stolen.Q&A... \n Three men from a provincial town are in urgent need of money and decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery\, but soon after their ticket gets stolen. Q&A with director Paul Negoescu \n Read More\n \n Sieranevadaby Cristi Puiu2016\, Drama\, 173 minutes \n A doctor and his wife are having a family meal in Bucharest to mark the passing of his father when an argument about 9/11 breaks out and deteriorates into a... \n A doctor and his wife are having a family meal in Bucharest to mark the passing of his father when an argument about 9/11 breaks out and deteriorates into a settling of personal scores. \n Read More\n \n Breaking Newsby Iulia Rugină2017\, Drama\, 81 minutes \n While working on an in memoriam piece for a dead colleague\, a famous news reporter loses track of the TV story and becomes part of a father-daughter relationship with the... \n While working on an in memoriam piece for a dead colleague\, a famous news reporter loses track of the TV story and becomes part of a father-daughter relationship with the teenager left behind. Q&A with director Iulia Rugină and actress Ioana Flora \n Read More\n \n Scarred Heartsby Radu Jude2016\, Drama\, 141 minutes \n Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient\, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies... \n Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient\, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away\, but their minds refuse to give up. \n Read More\n \n   Back Homeby Andrei Kohn2015\, Drama\, 91 minutes \n Robert is a young journalist passing through a difficult period in his life. He returns to his native village for a day. One day to meet with his father\, with... \n Robert is a young journalist passing through a difficult period in his life. He returns to his native village for a day. One day to meet with his father\, with whom he has had a difficult relationship\, and with two former classmates: Petrică - his old best friend\, now married with children - and Paula\, his teenage sweetheart. The time has come for Robert to change his destiny. Q&A with actress Ioana Flora \n Read More\n \n This Bababy Bogdan Darev2014\, Documentary\, 31 minutes This Baba is the story of Bulgarian Voices singer Penka Encheva\, who was an extraordinary traditional singer as a young woman in her native country of Bulgaria. The Rest is Silenceby Nae Caranfil2007\, Drama\, 114 minutes \n In 1911-12\, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen... \n In 1911-12\, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now\, "Restul e tăcere" tells us\, in a loose and half-fictionalized way\, the story of this movie making. \n Read More\n \n The New Gypsy Kingsby Liviu Tipuriță2016\, Documentary\, 59 minutes A look inside the world of Romania's super-rich Gypsy pop stars: a world of fast cars\, lavish houses\, and gangsters. GuestsPaul NegoescuBorn in 1984\, Paul Negoescu studied film directing at the national film school in Bucharest. His short films were selected in many international festivals (Semaine de la Critique\, Berlinale). His debut film\, "A month in Thailand"\, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2012\, while his second feature\, "Two Lottery Tickets"\, became one of the most successful Romanian films at the box office. "The Story of a Summer Lover"\, his 3rd feature\, was distributed by Netflix in over 30 territories. Iulia RuginăIulia Rugină is a Bucharest based director and screenwriter. She has a BA and a MA degree in film and television directing at Bucharest’s National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC). In 2020 she completed a PhD on low budget cinema at the same university.\n\nShe has written and directed twelve shorts and three feature films\, among which Stuck on Christmas (2010)\, Love Building (2013)\, Dying from a Wound of Love (2014)\, Breaking News (2016). In 2018 she made her theater debut with the multimedia show Neverland\, which she wrote and directed. In 2020 she directed six of the eight episodes of the HBO Max series Ruxx.\n\nSince 2099 she is also actively involved in cultural management (through Control N\, the cultural NGO she has co-founded)\, and film education (through various projects she has participated in\, as a film tutor)\, having worked with professional screenwriters\, amateur filmmakers\, children\, ethnic minorities\, inmates and drug addicts.\n\nShe taught screenwriting at the National University of Theater and Film in Bucharest for 10 years\, before switching to script consultancy in national and international projects.\n\n  Ioana FloraOne of the most appreciated Romanian actresses\, appearing in films\, television\, on stage\, also having been awarded for many roles. Being a mother of two\, Ioana has been actively involved in children’s performances\, personal development workshops for both children and adults and training programs in film and theatre. Person not found Mary SherhartMary Sherhart is a Seattle-based musician who specializes in traditional singing from the Balkans. She is a performer\, teacher\, choir director\, producer\, board member and student. URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-film-festival-4th-edition/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109 CATEGORIES:Film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://arcsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/211-RFF_2017-_cover_.jpg.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151123 DTSTAMP:20260526T000535 CREATED:20230906T221953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T181420Z UID:10000049-1447977600-1448236799@arcsproject.org SUMMARY:Romanian Film Festival Seattle- 2nd Edition DESCRIPTION:Romanian Film Festival Seattle\, 2nd Edition: Tales of ResistanceThis year's edition of the Romanian Film Festival in Seattle celebrates Romania's cultural\, ethnic and religious diversity within a society where personal\, unforgettable stories have challenged and altered the course of history. Through our selection of comedy-dramas\, documentaries\, and animation\, you will discover the internationally praised 'New Romanian Cinema' and its precursors. Local and international special guests will present the movies and interact with the audience at the festival gala.All movies have English subtitles.FilmsAferim! by Radu Jude2015\, Comedy/Drama\, 108 minutes \n Set in early 19th century Romania\, a policeman\, Costandin\, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair... \n Set in early 19th century Romania\, a policeman\, Costandin\, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife. Q&A with co-screenwriter Florin Lăzărescu \n Read More\n \n   Closer to the Moonby Nae Caranfil2014\, Comedy/Drama\, 112 minutes \n A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the... \n A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie. \n Read More\n \n Crulic - The Path to Beyondby Anca Damian2011\, Animated Documentary\, 73 minutes While being in Poland\, Romanian Claudio Crulic is wrongly accused of theft. In jail he goes on a hunger strike. Trading Germansby Răzvan Georgescu2014\, Documentary\, 90 minutes A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed\, courage\, hope and remorse. Domestic by Adrian Sitaru2012\, Animation\, 82 minutes \n Domestic is a story about people who eat the animals they love and animals who love people unconditionally. A rabbit\, a hen\, a cat\, a dog and a dove pass... \n Domestic is a story about people who eat the animals they love and animals who love people unconditionally. A rabbit\, a hen\, a cat\, a dog and a dove pass through the lives of the main characters and influence their evolution. \n Read More\n \n A Love Story\, Lindenfeldby Radu Gabrea2014\, Drama\, 95 minutes \n Klaus Bernath\, a wealthy German citizen\, decides\, after many years\, to visit his birthplace\, of the Banat Swabian village Lindenfeld\, in Romania. Since the village has been deserted for many... \n Klaus Bernath\, a wealthy German citizen\, decides\, after many years\, to visit his birthplace\, of the Banat Swabian village Lindenfeld\, in Romania. Since the village has been deserted for many decades\, his son and his biographer decide to reconstruct the whole space from scratch and present it as a populated place. Q&A with director Radu Gabrea and lead actress Victoria Cocias \n Read More\n \n Goldfaden's Legacyby Radu Gabrea2004\, Documentary\, 58 minutes \n The films follows the life and work of Abraham Goldfaden and highlights the pre-war cultural relations between the Romanian and local Jewish population\, as well as the influence of the... \n The films follows the life and work of Abraham Goldfaden and highlights the pre-war cultural relations between the Romanian and local Jewish population\, as well as the influence of the New York Yiddish Theater on popular American culture. Q&A with director and lead actress \n Read More\n \n GuestsRadu GabreaRadu Gabrea graduated from the Faculty of Construction and the Theatre and Film Art Institute in Bucharest. His film Too Small for such Great War (1969) participated at the Locarno Festival. Beyond the Sands (1973)\, forbidden by communist censorship\, is considered his most important Romanian film of the 70s by Mira and Antonin Liehm\, UCLA Press. Between 1974-1996\, Gabrea lived in Germany. His first German film\, Jakob\, don't be afraid (1981) opened the Jewish Film Festival at the Kennedy Center in the US and was selected at Telluride\, Colorado. In New York Times\, Vincent Canby discussed his cult film A Man like Eve (1984) in a very laudatory manner. Returning to Romania in late the 1990s\, the director and producer Gabrea made several documentaries\, among which Struma (2000)\, awarded the Special Mention at the International Festival in Jerusalem\, Goldfaden's Heritage (2004)\, and Rumenye\, Rumenye (2006\, 2013). He gained his Ph.D. in Film Studies from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve\, Belgium\, with a thesis on Werner Herzog and German medieval mysticism\, about which Henri Agel wrote in Positif that "it is one of the most beautiful books on cinema ever written." In 2011 he received the Knight's Cross from the Federal Republic of Germany. Victoria CociașVictoria Cocias graduated from the Theatre and Film Art Institute in Bucharest in 1980. She has given life to classical roles in national and international plays from Caragiale to Chekov\, from Shakespeare to Edward Albee. She worked with Romanian directors before '89 - Andrei Blaier\, Dan Pita\, Nicolae Margineanu\, Lucian Pintilie\, Radu Gabrea - as well as with directors of the Romanian New Wave: Adrian Sitaru\, Cristi Puiu. She has also worked with Nae Caranfil in Asfalt Tango and Pericoloso Sporgersi. At the Romanian Film Days (2012) she received the Special Mention for her interpretation of Elena Ceausescu in Three days before Christmas\, directed by Radu Gabrea. The show and film La Divina made after Terrence McNally's play Master Class\, in which Victoria Cocias plays Maria Callas brings her international acclaim: Kyra Winthrop-St. Gery considers her performance exceptional and James Claridge writes that she is a "a great actress in a great show". Florin LăzărescuA very prolific and versatile writer\, Florin Lăzărescu (b. March 28\, 1974) is a well-established author leaving in Iași\, Northeastern Romania. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Iași (1998) and a founding member of FILIT - Iași International Festival of Literature and Translation. Screenwriter of the short film Lampa cu căciulă / The lamp with a Hat (2006\, directed by Radu Jude\, winner of best short film at the Sundance Film Festival). Co-writer of the medium-length film A Shadow of the Cloud… (directed by Radu Jude\, which premiered at Cannes in 2014) and of the feature film Aferim! (2015\, directed by Radu Jude\, winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlinale\, nominated for Best Screenplay at the European Film Academy Awards in 2015\, winner of the Gopo Award for Best Screenplay in 2016). Florin debuted as an author in 2000 with a volume of short stories: Cuiburi de vîsc / Mistletoe Nests (Outopos\, Iași). He has also published the novels Ce se știe despre ursul panda / What Is Known about the Panda Bear (Polirom\, 2003)\, Trimisul nostru special / Our Special Envoy (Polirom\, 2005\, 2014)\, Amorțire / Numbness (Polirom\, 2013)\, the collections of stories Lampa cu căciulă / The Lamp with a Hat (Polirom\, 2009) and Întîmplări și personaje / Stories and Characters ( Polirom\, 2015)\, and the children's book Puiul de balaur\, puiul de zmeu și puiul de om / Dragon Baby\, Ogre Baby and Human Baby (Cartier\, 2019). His latest novel is entitled Noaptea plec\, noaptea mă-ntorc / I Leave at Night\, I Return at Night (Polirom\, 2021). His books have been translated and published in 10 languages. Monica FilimonMonica Filimon was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature by Rutgers University. She is Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College\, CUNY. She has published articles on French\, German\, and Romanian films. Her research focuses on the New Romanian Cinema\, its sources\, evolution\, and major representatives. Her first book Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the Profane World was published by the University of Illinois Press in February 2017. She is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Corneliu Porumboiu: Notes on the Absurd. 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