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Published Articles & Reviews
by Wendy Dent
DaKINO International Film
Festival
(Bucharest, Romania)
article by Wendy Dent published on
Filmfestivals.com December 2005:
DaKINO Delivers Matchpoint in its 15th Anniversary
Congratulations DaKINO. 15 years and going strong.
The people of Bucharest are crowding the cinemas to see a diverse collection
of award winning short film dramas and documentaries in competition
for the
prestigious DaKINO awards, plus several notable feature films screening
out of competition.
Over 500 people last night overcrowded the Auditorium Hall of the National
Museum of Art to see the first screening since Cannes Film Festival
of Woody Allen's latest feature MATCH POINT. It certainly sparked conversation,
during the film as well as after.
Less conversational are the 13 acclaimed international jury members,
who's lips are firmly sealed about their favourites of the fest. Florin
Iepan is presiding over the documentary official selection whilst Irena
Petrescu presides over the drama official selection, together with other
jury members including Jean Pierre Magnan, Oliver Gicart and Stina Bergman.
Also in attendance are several special invited guests, such as Canadian
fiction and documentary maker Malcolm Guy and French film journalist
Michele Levieux, and directors of short films in official competition
including Julian Donada (director of the French drama In San Rem0) and
Ilanda Linden, (director of the Canadian documentary Josef's Daughter).
Nightly DaKINO is also presenting the films of Dan Pita, honorary festival
president of this year's anniversary DaKINO edition, and hosting free
Videolink workshops in the Auditorium foyer to an eager audience of
Romanian film students.
The achievements of the festival, thanks to DaKINO Foundation President
Dan Chisu, were well described by the words of Adrian Iorgulescu, Minister
of Culture, regarding DaKINOs 15th anniversary;
" Thriving in a cultural climate often infected by a misunderstood
market economy, DaKINO graudally has become a celebration of author
cinema, an argument in favour of those who still consider cinematography
as the seventh art".
This was aptly shown by highlight films of the first two days of the
drama competition program; including
Green Bush (director Warwick Thornton,
Australia),
A Good Day (director Per Hanefjord,
Sweden),
Autobiographical Scene No. 6882 (director
Reben Ostlund, Sweden),
Alim Market (director Ozgur
Yildirim, Germany) and
Dream Forest (director Adrian Baluta,
Romania).
With two more days of award winning films yet to come, DaKINOs program
is sure to continue enthralling its audience of Romanian cinephiles
and international film luminaries alike.
(Dear Juliet by Wendy Dent also screens in official documentary competition)
Wendy Dent
Bucharest, Romania
23 November 2005
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