Eforie Colorat, the festival running from July 3rd to September 10th in Eforie Sud, on the Romanian Black Sea cost, will offer two months of films, concerts, debates, workshops and greening actions, events designed to erase the barriers between artists and the public, and the boundaries between conventional exhibition spaces and public space.

This year's program includes contemporary art exhibitions, photography exhibitions, interactive installations, eco-installations, theater performances, film screenings, concerts, artist talks and murals, among many others, the organizers announced.

More than 200 events, film screenings, concerts and contemporary art openings will be available. The program starts every evening at 7 pm, and admission is free.

The Cinemascope Garden in Eforie Sud will host every evening until the end of the season open-air screenings ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to European films, documentaries, shorts and experimental films. Every Tuesday evening, the CineShort section, developed in partnership with Short Film Breaks, brings the most exciting short films of the moment. Classic film is shown every Wednesday in the RetroCinema section, and documentary film in the Kinedok section. Thursday evenings are reserved for childhood stories. The CineKids section will delight families with the most popular animations. Fridays and Saturdays are dedicated to European films, and the CineHit section offers international blockbusters every Sunday.

A highlight of the summer program is the preview screening of the latest film by director Alexandru Solomon, a documentary road movie following in the footsteps of Arsenie Boca. The screening will take place, in the presence of the team, on August 25th and will be followed by a Q&A session.

The National Museum of Romania (MNAR) will hold several painting workshops, while contemporary art exhibitions will be opened throughout the summer in Eforie in a program developed in partnership with the E T A J artist-run Space Gallery in Bucharest, as well as with partner diplomatic institutions and local cultural centers. Through its satellite - E T A J on Wheels, the E T A J artist-run Space gallery in Bucharest moves, during the summer, to the summer garden in Eforie Sud, where it will host "Inflatable Concrete" - an in situ installation that Mircea Modreanu designed especially for the seaside community. The summer program also includes several photography exhibitions, from Spanish advertising art to a suite of visual press cartoons about the war in Ukraine.

There will also be artist talks with personalities such as Reka Csapo Dup, Darie Dup, Mugur Grosu and Lumi Mihai. Poetry recitals and photography exhibitions round off the cultural offer of the edition, along with evenings of experimental and alternative music. This year's special guest is Faust Live Band, with Adi Neacsu (bass), Lucas Contreras (guitar), Horia Stanciu (drums), Denis Negulescu (DJ). Faust has played with Subcarpati, Celula de Criza, U.N.D.E, sr71, before imagining a new show formula, a project with jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop and drum and bass influences.

(Photo: Gradina Cinemascop by Eforie Sus, courtesy of the organizers)

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