New Award for Romanian Cinema
One of the most notable Romanian filmmakers, Ada Solomon, received at the European Film Academy Gala in Berlin the European Co-Production Award, Prix Eurimages, acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry.
Leyla Cheamil, 09.12.2013, 12:10
The Romanian film industry takes pride in a new remarkable success, after the European Film Awards gala held in Berlin on Saturday. The awards, viewed as the European Oscars, are granted every year for the best films produced on the continent the year before. One of the most active Romanian filmmakers of the moment, Ada Solomon, received the Prix Eurimages for Co-Production. The producer of the feature film “Child’s Pose,” directed by Calin Peter Netzer and winner of this year’s Golden Bear, was introduced at the awards gala as an important Romanian and European filmmaker, whose works were awarded in festivals like Locarno and Berlin.
Ada Solomon: “I’d like to quote Nelson Mandela, who said, ‘It always seems impossible until it’s done’. I never imagined I would be in Berlin, the heart of Europe, on the same stage with Enrico Morricone, Pedro Almodovar, Catherine Deneuve and Wim Wenders.”
Ada Solomon explained that as a rule, the films she has made are related to family. They include “For love, with the best intentions,” directed by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards in the 2011 Locarno Festival, as well as “Everybody in our family,” by Radu Jude, who won the “Heart of Sarajevo” trophy in 2012.
In fact, Ada Solomon’s projects include further cooperation with Radu Jude, she added: “The next film by Radu Jude, called ‘Bravo!’ is a period film, a minimalist Balkan western, so to say, which looks at mentalities and how they are passed on from one generation to the next, at how what we do today is influenced by much older things, which most of the times we don’t analyze from a historical and social perspective.”
Meanwhile, director Nae Caranfil’s latest feature film, “Closer to the Moon,” which recently opened the “Making Waves” Festival in New York, was warmly received by the American public. The film reconstructs the grand communist theft of 1959, was presented by Variety magazine as a surprisingly funny dark comedy which may appeal to the American audience.
