Another Romanian film selected for the Montreal film festival - Europolis
The debut feature length movie 'Europolis', directed and produced by Romanian Cornel Gheorghita, has been selected for the International Film festival in Montreal, Festival des Films du Monde. The festival will take place between August 26 and September 6. The leading actors in the 'Europolis' film are Adriana Trandafir and Áron Dimény. The film will be screened in Romanian cinemas starting November this year. (see trailer with English subtitles below). The director says the film is an Eastern Balcanic, with a touch of the fantastic universe in Mircea Eliade's prose. Cornel Gheorghita has been a teacher at the Toulouse University for the last 20 years, at the Superior School of Audiovisual - Ecole Supérieure d'Audiovisuel. He is also teaching at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques. Gheorghita has a dual Romanian-French citizenship. He has been creating and producing several documentaries and short films so far: 'Fanfaron Fanfaron', 'Mascarade', 'The Wreck', 'The Day starts during the night', 'Luna Pork', 'Say Joe'. He is a director, producer, screen writer, image director and monteur. Europolis has got the HBO award at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2005 and an award at the European Independent Film Festival in 2008. Go here for the film's website. This is the second Romania-made movie selected for the Montreal film festival. The feature length movie 'Wedding in Basarabia', directed by Nap Toader (known as Napoleon Helmis) has also been selected. About Europolis
Nae lives in a small village in East Romania. A telegram arrives telling him that his long lost uncle Luca has died. The wire was sent by Luca’s executer asking Nae and his mother to go to France to make arrangements. One of the deceased’s last wishes was to be buried in the cemetery of his home town in Sulina, Romania, located on the coast of the Black Sea, on the other side of the continent. When the two Romanians get to the deceased’s house on the Atlantic coast, they meet a shaman, Ata, who was Luca’s best friend. Ata tells them that Luca’s fortune was lost and the only thing left is an unusual coffin. Luca’s soul takes advantage of their return trip to Romania. The Romanian tradition requires the soul to retrace its life’s steps during the forty days of mourning. Luca’s soul chooses to inhabit Nae in order to return to its last resting place. The procession of these “three” Romanians is guided by their guardian angel through the celestial customs which lead to the Final Judgment.
