Director Florin Serban’s picture If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier) was elected as Romania’s nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 2011 Oscar edition. The official finalists for the Oscar nominations will be announced on January 27 2011.
The movie has previously won a Silver Bear Award, the Jury Grand Prix, and the Alfred Bauer distinction at the Berlin International Film Festival 2010. With a total budget of EUR 900,000, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle is the first Romanian picture to enter the Berlin competition in 17 years. The movie will soon premiere in the United States and Canada, through a small distribution company.
If I want to Whistle, I Whistle is the story of a teenage prisoner in a juvenile detention center, who is only five days away from his release. However, his prospects of freedom are disturbed by the appearance of his mother and his falling in love with a Sociology student, an intern at the detention center.
Corina Dumitrescu