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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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