The Bucharest International Film Festival is on in the capital until Saturday, June 16. The screenings of the festival take place in four locations: Cinema Pro, Arcub, the Elvire Popesco cinema and Cinemateca Union.

Besides the films and shorts in the competition, the festival will showcase several other films in a Focus Israel section.

The films included in the competition are: Matar a Jesus (Columbia) by Laura Mhour Ortega; Grass (South Korea) by Sang-Soo Kong; Tarzan’s Eggs (Romania) by Alexandru Solomon; Pajaros de Verano (Columbia-Denmark) by Cristina Gallero and Ciro Guerra; Svanurrin (Iceland) by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdótirr; One Step Behind the Seraphim (Romania) by Daniel Sandu, Butterflies (Turkey) by Tolga Karacelic; M (France) by Sara Forestier; Pig (Iran) by Mani Haghighi; and Volubilis (Morocco-France) by Faouzi Bensaïdi.

They will be screened at Elvire Popesco. During the last day of the festival, the film Ward No. 6 of Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, who recently passed away, will be screened at the same venue.

The program of the festival can be checked here.

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