In September of 2013, the Romanian Cultural Exchanged hosted it's 5th annual film festival as a part of a Romanian Cultural Marathon. The event included local artists and acclaimed national and international directors.
As the L.A. Times quotes, "Romanians can't make a bad film. It's like, illegal in their country." Opening night began with a cocktail party to honor Horatiu Malaele, a lead Romanian film industry players and our elite sponsors. Each year this event draws the highest population of people with Romanian heritage in the Mid-West, and hundreds of film lovers and foreign film enthusiasts alike in discovering the cinematic phenomenon that left a fierce impression on film festivals all over the world.
Help ROCX make that impact in Chicago, we invite you take part of our festival next year! In the meanwhile, check out our awesome videos from the event and list of films.
As the L.A. Times quotes, "Romanians can't make a bad film. It's like, illegal in their country." Opening night began with a cocktail party to honor Horatiu Malaele, a lead Romanian film industry players and our elite sponsors. Each year this event draws the highest population of people with Romanian heritage in the Mid-West, and hundreds of film lovers and foreign film enthusiasts alike in discovering the cinematic phenomenon that left a fierce impression on film festivals all over the world.
Help ROCX make that impact in Chicago, we invite you take part of our festival next year! In the meanwhile, check out our awesome videos from the event and list of films.
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Opening Night – Friday, September 20, 2013
6:00 PM: Cocktail Party 7:00 PM: Feature Film - Happy Funerals/Funeralii Fericite (2013) -directed by Horatiu Malaele 9:00 PM: Extraordinary Recital by renown Romanian actor Horatiu Malaele - 'Sunt un orb' (performed in Romanian only) Saturday – September 21, 2013
11:00 PM: Shadow Puppet Show for children by RoAct Theatre and Anca Bodocan 4:00 PM: Short - From This Day Forth/De Azi Inainte Feature Film - Adalbert's Dream/Visul lui Adalbert 6:00 PM: Cocktail Reception introducing special guest - director Bogdan George Apetri 7:00 PM: Feature Film - Outbound/Periferic |
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Closing Night –Sunday September 22, 2013
3:00 PM: Short - Superman, Spiderman or Batman Feature Film - Wedding in Basarabia/ Nunta in Basarabia 7:00 PM: Super Hero/Super Eroul by Catalin Bugean Feature Film - An unforgettable summer/ O Vara de Neuitat |
Opening Gala/ 'Sunt un orb' - recital by Horatiu Malaele
Friday, September 20 @ 6:00PM
Opening Gala
Sunt Un Orb
Horaţiu Mălăele continuă seria celor mai iubiţi actori români care joacă pe scena din Chicago in parteneriat cu ROCX. Vineri, 20 septembrie, sunteti invitaţi la un recital extraordinar, care îmbină comedia cu filozofia şi literatura, recitând din Nichita, Brumaru, Păunescu şi nu numai, într-un context interactiv cu publicul.
ROCX is pleased to continue the series of Chicago performances by our most beloved Romanian actors with the special event featuring the magnificent Horatiu Malaele. Friday, September 20th you are invited to an extraordinary recital which combines both comedy and philosophy. The monologue will include texts by Nichita, Brumaru, Păunescu and many more in an interactive context with the public.
(performed in Romanian without translations)
Opening Gala
Sunt Un Orb
Horaţiu Mălăele continuă seria celor mai iubiţi actori români care joacă pe scena din Chicago in parteneriat cu ROCX. Vineri, 20 septembrie, sunteti invitaţi la un recital extraordinar, care îmbină comedia cu filozofia şi literatura, recitând din Nichita, Brumaru, Păunescu şi nu numai, într-un context interactiv cu publicul.
ROCX is pleased to continue the series of Chicago performances by our most beloved Romanian actors with the special event featuring the magnificent Horatiu Malaele. Friday, September 20th you are invited to an extraordinary recital which combines both comedy and philosophy. The monologue will include texts by Nichita, Brumaru, Păunescu and many more in an interactive context with the public.
(performed in Romanian without translations)
$
35.00
Happy Funerals
Friday, September 20 @ 9:00PM
Happy Funerals/Funeralii Fericite
Director: Horatiu Malaele (2013)
Synopsis: Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian are tripling away their... happiness, into vodka, at a joint called "The Happy Immigrant", kept by a Turk. The crowd at this venue, made out of survivors of the Babel Tower, is comprised of immigrants who chose Romania as their country of possibilities. A police raid chases away the pub's barflies. While on the run, the three professional boozers stumble upon a fortune teller who specializes in no other than: death prediction. The rest is pure entertainment! Although we are all indebted to one death, some refuse to pay this debt. Who wants to die when it's written in the cards for them or merely predicted?
Happy Funerals/Funeralii Fericite
Director: Horatiu Malaele (2013)
Synopsis: Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian are tripling away their... happiness, into vodka, at a joint called "The Happy Immigrant", kept by a Turk. The crowd at this venue, made out of survivors of the Babel Tower, is comprised of immigrants who chose Romania as their country of possibilities. A police raid chases away the pub's barflies. While on the run, the three professional boozers stumble upon a fortune teller who specializes in no other than: death prediction. The rest is pure entertainment! Although we are all indebted to one death, some refuse to pay this debt. Who wants to die when it's written in the cards for them or merely predicted?
$
15.00
Shadow Puppet Show
Saturday, September 21 @ 11:00AM
Free event/ suggested $5 donation at the door
Ro Act in collaboration with narrator Anca Dobocan present to children of all ages 'Punguta cu doi bani' by Ion Creanga. Please join us for a heartfelt interpretation of the renowned Romanian children's story in which Cucosul Mosului and Gaina Babei (in the interpretation of actors Catalin Nicolae and Radu Vaduva ) will come for the first time to life through shadow puppets!
Cucurigu! boieri mari, Dati punguta cu doi bani!
(performed in Romanian without translations)
Free event/ suggested $5 donation at the door
Ro Act in collaboration with narrator Anca Dobocan present to children of all ages 'Punguta cu doi bani' by Ion Creanga. Please join us for a heartfelt interpretation of the renowned Romanian children's story in which Cucosul Mosului and Gaina Babei (in the interpretation of actors Catalin Nicolae and Radu Vaduva ) will come for the first time to life through shadow puppets!
Cucurigu! boieri mari, Dati punguta cu doi bani!
(performed in Romanian without translations)
An Unforgettable Summer/ From This Day Forth
Saturday, September 21 @ 4:00PM
From This Day Forth/De Azi Inainte (short)
Director: Dorian Boguta (2012)
Synopsis: Stefan is turning 18. His Dad decides this is the day for his son to ”become a man”, with all that entails. Only things do not go as planned and the father receives a life-changing lesson from his son.
An Unforgettable Summer/ O Vara de Neuitat
Director: Lucian Pintilie (1994)
Synopsis: A Romanian soldier must choose between family loyalty and political allegiance in this disturbing Romanian drama set in 1925. Capt. Petri Dumitriu has been reassigned to a lonely outpost on the Danube after his wife Marie Therese Von Debretsy refuses the advances of a highly ranked general. On the Danube, Dumitriu's life is thrown into turmoil after Romanian soldiers are brutally slain in an ambush by Macedonian bandits. In retaliation, Dumitriu is ordered to execute the innocent local Bulgarians who work in his family's garden. Marie Therese is appalled and Dumitriu must make a terribly painful decision.
From This Day Forth/De Azi Inainte (short)
Director: Dorian Boguta (2012)
Synopsis: Stefan is turning 18. His Dad decides this is the day for his son to ”become a man”, with all that entails. Only things do not go as planned and the father receives a life-changing lesson from his son.
An Unforgettable Summer/ O Vara de Neuitat
Director: Lucian Pintilie (1994)
Synopsis: A Romanian soldier must choose between family loyalty and political allegiance in this disturbing Romanian drama set in 1925. Capt. Petri Dumitriu has been reassigned to a lonely outpost on the Danube after his wife Marie Therese Von Debretsy refuses the advances of a highly ranked general. On the Danube, Dumitriu's life is thrown into turmoil after Romanian soldiers are brutally slain in an ambush by Macedonian bandits. In retaliation, Dumitriu is ordered to execute the innocent local Bulgarians who work in his family's garden. Marie Therese is appalled and Dumitriu must make a terribly painful decision.
$
15.00
Outbound
Saturday, September 21 @ 6:30PM
Cocktail Reception introducing special guest - director Bogdan George Apetri
Outbound/Periferic
Director: Bogdan George Apetri (2012)
Synopsis: After two years in prison, Matilda is granted a 24-hour temporary release. Not willing to return, she plans to escape, flee the country and start afresh. But before the day is over, Matilda must reconnect with her troubled past - the family who rejected her, her estranged ex-lover and, most of all, the kid she left behind. The struggle for a new life reminds her that freedom may be just one choice away.
Cocktail Reception introducing special guest - director Bogdan George Apetri
Outbound/Periferic
Director: Bogdan George Apetri (2012)
Synopsis: After two years in prison, Matilda is granted a 24-hour temporary release. Not willing to return, she plans to escape, flee the country and start afresh. But before the day is over, Matilda must reconnect with her troubled past - the family who rejected her, her estranged ex-lover and, most of all, the kid she left behind. The struggle for a new life reminds her that freedom may be just one choice away.
$
15.00
Wedding in Basarabia/ Superman, Spiderman or Batman
Sunday, September 22 @ 3:00PM
Superman, Spiderman or Batman
Director: Tudor Giurgiu (2011)
Synopsis: Aron, a 5-year-old boy, sets together with his worried father on a journey at the end of which he wishes, like the superheroes in the comic books, to save his mother suffering from a heart condition
Wedding in Basarabia/Nunta in Basarabia
Director: Nap Teoader (2009)
Synopsis: “Wedding in Bessarabia” is a story of a young couple who recently got married in Romania. He is a young conductor from Bucharest and she is a gifted pianist from the Republic of Moldova. One day, they decide to have another wedding in Moldova, hoping to get the money to pay the account for a new apartment. The movie exploits the difference of traditions and habits between Romania and Bessarabia, and a sort of a competition which arises between the families involved.
Superman, Spiderman or Batman
Director: Tudor Giurgiu (2011)
Synopsis: Aron, a 5-year-old boy, sets together with his worried father on a journey at the end of which he wishes, like the superheroes in the comic books, to save his mother suffering from a heart condition
Wedding in Basarabia/Nunta in Basarabia
Director: Nap Teoader (2009)
Synopsis: “Wedding in Bessarabia” is a story of a young couple who recently got married in Romania. He is a young conductor from Bucharest and she is a gifted pianist from the Republic of Moldova. One day, they decide to have another wedding in Moldova, hoping to get the money to pay the account for a new apartment. The movie exploits the difference of traditions and habits between Romania and Bessarabia, and a sort of a competition which arises between the families involved.
$
15.00
Adalbert's Dream/ From This Day Forth
Sunday, September 22 @ 6:00PM
The Superhero/Super Eroul
Director: Catalin Bugean
A short movie about the profession of being a Hero. About ordinary people who live their lives in the fast lane every single day...
Adalbert's Dream/Visul Lui Albert
Director: Gabriel Achim (2011)
Synopsis: Adalbert’s Dream is a black comedy based on a real story that happened in a Romanian communist factory in the 80’s. A work accident is re-enacted, but the re-enactment turns into a new accident: the worker playing the victim gets his hand cut off, as well. This latest triumph of the Romanian New Wave is set near the end of Ceausescu’s dictatorship against the backdrop of Romania’s finest moment in soccer: the victory of Steaua Bucharest over Barcelona during the 1986 European Cup Final.
The Superhero/Super Eroul
Director: Catalin Bugean
A short movie about the profession of being a Hero. About ordinary people who live their lives in the fast lane every single day...
Adalbert's Dream/Visul Lui Albert
Director: Gabriel Achim (2011)
Synopsis: Adalbert’s Dream is a black comedy based on a real story that happened in a Romanian communist factory in the 80’s. A work accident is re-enacted, but the re-enactment turns into a new accident: the worker playing the victim gets his hand cut off, as well. This latest triumph of the Romanian New Wave is set near the end of Ceausescu’s dictatorship against the backdrop of Romania’s finest moment in soccer: the victory of Steaua Bucharest over Barcelona during the 1986 European Cup Final.
$
15.00
This project has been realized with the support of:
Guvernul Romaniei - Departamentul Pentru Romanii De Pretutindeni
Ro Act Theater
Mr. Cristian Merdariu
Law Office of Mr. Dan Alic
Guvernul Romaniei - Departamentul Pentru Romanii De Pretutindeni
Ro Act Theater
Mr. Cristian Merdariu
Law Office of Mr. Dan Alic
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