The Bucharest City Hall will pay around EUR 42,500 for a ten-minute film presenting the Romanian capital city. The winner of the bid to create this film is Stage Expert, which has previously won the bid for video and audio services for Romania's attendance at the Expo Shanghai 2010.

Movies opening this week-end

The Tourist (trailer below)

with Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp

on at: Movieplex Cinema...

IndieWire, a specialized publication in the US writing about independent filmmakers, has reviewed Romania's Oscar entry movie 'If I want to Whistle, I whistle', saying the film marks a strong debut in the awards. The publication has offered the B grade for the movie, which had its premiere in the US earlier this week.

The number of foreign visitors to Romania reached 6.9 million in the first 11 months of the year, down 0.6 percent on the same period of last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics.

Romania and Bulgaria will not join the Schengen area in March this year, as it was initially planned, according to the Hungarian Internal Affairs minister Sandor Pinter. The two countries will most likely join the Schengen area in October the earliest.

The Romanian movie 'If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle' will have its premiere in the US on January 5 and will run in New York until January 18. Director Florin Serban and producer Daniel Mitulescu will attend the screening at Film Forum New York, starting 8 PM, and the official launching afterparty.

Best Film Fest, a film festival which will reward the best Romanian movies and actors of 2010 will take place in Bucharest between January 28 and February 3. The 11th edition of the festival will be organized at the Studio cinema in Bucharest.

As many as 400 foreign tourists, among whom British, French and Americans, have made bookings and are waited for this winter at the Ice Hotel at Balea Lac, the only ice hotel in Eastern Europe.

One of the advisers of Romanian democrat liberal Gheorghe Flutur, president of the Suceava County Council, northeastern Romania, will walk the distance between Vienna, Austria, and Suceava to promote the tourism project "Pilgrim in Bucovina", financed with European funds.

Half a million foreigners entered Romania in December last year, according to data from the Romanian Customs. In total, 2.6 million people transited the Romanian customs in the last month of 2010, with the West and East customs being the most transited ones. Most of these people, EUR 2.1 million, were EU citizens.

The Bucharest City Hall will pay around EUR 42,500 for a ten-minute film presenting the Romanian capital city. The winner of the bid to create this film is Stage Expert, which has previously won the bid for video and audio services for Romania's attendance at the Expo Shanghai 2010.

Movies opening this week-end

The Tourist (trailer below)

with Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp

on at: Movieplex Cinema...

IndieWire, a specialized publication in the US writing about independent filmmakers, has reviewed Romania's Oscar entry movie 'If I want to Whistle, I whistle', saying the film marks a strong debut in the awards. The publication has offered the B grade for the movie, which had its premiere in the US earlier this week.

The number of foreign visitors to Romania reached 6.9 million in the first 11 months of the year, down 0.6 percent on the same period of last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics.

Romania and Bulgaria will not join the Schengen area in March this year, as it was initially planned, according to the Hungarian Internal Affairs minister Sandor Pinter. The two countries will most likely join the Schengen area in October the earliest.

The Romanian movie 'If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle' will have its premiere in the US on January 5 and will run in New York until January 18. Director Florin Serban and producer Daniel Mitulescu will attend the screening at Film Forum New York, starting 8 PM, and the official launching afterparty.

Best Film Fest, a film festival which will reward the best Romanian movies and actors of 2010 will take place in Bucharest between January 28 and February 3. The 11th edition of the festival will be organized at the Studio cinema in Bucharest.

As many as 400 foreign tourists, among whom British, French and Americans, have made bookings and are waited for this winter at the Ice Hotel at Balea Lac, the only ice hotel in Eastern Europe.

One of the advisers of Romanian democrat liberal Gheorghe Flutur, president of the Suceava County Council, northeastern Romania, will walk the distance between Vienna, Austria, and Suceava to promote the tourism project "Pilgrim in Bucovina", financed with European funds.

Half a million foreigners entered Romania in December last year, according to data from the Romanian Customs. In total, 2.6 million people transited the Romanian customs in the last month of 2010, with the West and East customs being the most transited ones. Most of these people, EUR 2.1 million, were EU citizens.