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 \u201cChild\u2019s Pose,\u201d directed by Calin Peter Netzer and winner of this year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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Ada Solomon: \u201cI\u2019d like to quote Nelson Mandela, who said, \u2018It always seems impossible until it\u2019s done\u2019. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ada Solomon explained that as a rule, the films she has made are related to family. They include \u201cFor love, with the best intentions,\u201d directed by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards in the 2011 Locarno Festival, as well as \u201cEverybody in our family,\u201d by Radu Jude, who won the \u201cHeart of Sarajevo\u201d trophy in 2012.<\/p>\n
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In fact, Ada Solomon\u2019s projects include further cooperation with Radu Jude, she added: \u201cThe next film by Radu Jude, called \u2018Bravo!\u2019 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\u2019t analyze from a historical and social perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, director Nae Caranfil\u2019s latest feature film, \u201cCloser to the Moon,\u201d which recently opened the \u201cMaking Waves\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
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