Cornel Porumboiu’s film presented in Forum section of Berlinale

Newsroom 17/01/2014 | 14:50

After last year’s great success with Child’s Pose, Romania participates again at Berlin International Film Festival, also known as Berlinale, with Cornel Porumboiu’s The Second Game movie (Al doilea joc), which entered in the Forum section of the film competition. Unfortunately, the Forum is just a section dedicated to documentaries and experimental movies directed by young film-makers.

According to Berlinale official website, the 44th edition of the Berlinale Forum once again provides an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent. Among the themes to be found in the films of the 2014 Forum are working environments and aggravated class relations in economically unstable times. Filmmakers from all over the world draw on a broad spectrum of different strategies to grapple with how the individual is affected by such worsening affairs. Several films in this year’s programme explore the absurdities of the cultural establishment, often in duly comedic form. Works by primarily young filmmakers from Eastern Europe make up one key geographical focus. Porumboiu declared for Mediafax newswire that the production was self-financed.

Furthermore, a co-production Romanian-German will be presented at this section, The Forest is Like the Mountains (Padurea e ca muntele, vezi?), directed by Christiane Schmidt and Didier Guillian.

More about this section, here.

Oana Vasiliu

 

 

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