World premiere at Cannes: Romanian director Bogdan Mirica presents Dogs

Newsroom 15/05/2016 | 10:16

The first long-featured film by Romanian director Bogdan Mirica, Dogs / Câini, is having today the world premiere at the 69th edition of Cannes Film Festival. The movie competes simultaneously for two awards, Un Certain Regard and Camera d’Or, which represents the best debut of the official selection.

Director Bogdan Mirica returns to Cannes with Dogs, which was initially sketched during Cinéfondation workshop back in 2014. After Cannes, the movie can be seen during Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), where it competes for Transylvania Trophy. The movie will be nationwide launched in this autumn in Romania.

Dogs

Synopsis: Roman returns to the land near the border with Ukraine he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land – and their smuggling business – without a fight.

The main roles are played by Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov and Gheorghe Visu, while Romanian actors Teodor Corban, Raluca Aprodu, Costel Cascaval and Constantin Cojocaru can also be seen on the silver screen.

“Dogs overturns the conventions of genre film – not to speak of the New Wave – and becomes a genuine Balkan anti-western,” describes it Mihai Chirilov, the artistic director of TIFF.