Events in Bucharest this weekend

With the weather leaning more towards summer than spring, this weekend is the perfect time to get out of the house and enjoy some of the many events Bucharest has to offer, from marathons to film festivals to fairs, movies and theatre plays.

This weekend is starting off with The Color Run event taking place in Piata Constitutiei, where participants will be painted “head to toe” with various colours for each of the run’s 5 km. If mixing colouring powder and running doesn’t sound like the best ideas, there’s the “Forest Marathon” taking place in the Tineretului park on Sunday where participants can opt for 5, 10 or 15 km.

Ending on Sunday is the 25th edition of the DaKINO film festival at Hollywood Multiplex Bucharest Mall. Among the movies screening this weekend as part of the festival is Lenny Abrahamson’s ROOM, about what happens to a kidnapped mother and son after they escape from a room in which they were imprisoned for the entirety of the boy’s life.

Another film festival taking place this weekend is the Cinepolitica International Film Festival, with a series of politically-focused movies screening at the Elvire Popoesco cinema. Among the movies are Nicolas Boukhrief’s Made in France, Yuriy Bykov’s The Fool, and Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader.

To start off Sunday, POINT is hosting Vlad Tausance for their brunch series, who has prepared an Asian inspired menu serving fish amok, saraman curry (or vietnamese crepes for the vegetarians) and rice pudding. Under the codename Circulinar, Tausance has cooked for festivals and private events, including Rebirth, Street Delivery and Beautyfood. Available Sunday from 11am to 3pm and costing RON 100, his menu also includes the customer’s choice of two drinks.

Also this weekend, the National Museum of Art of Romania will be hosting guided tours of the Royal Palace, an event that happens only once a month so it is definitely something not to be missed for those wanting to take a walk through a part of Romania’s history.

In terms of theatre, Twenty years in Siberia is playing at the National Bucharest Theatre this Saturday, followed by The Man who saw Death and The Girl from the Rainbow on Sunday.

And because no weekend in Bucharest is complete without at least one fair happening, the 100% Romanian fair is taking place Saturday at the Beraria H, where Romanian products from clothing to jewellery to furniture will be on sale.

Andreea Tint