Film

Romanian box office hit Of Snails and Men will have its much awaited London premiere on 18 July, at the Gate Picturehouse cinema, in the presence of acclaimed director Tudor Giurgiu and beloved actress Monica Birladeanu.  Of Snails and Men is one of the most successful

The fifth consecutive collaboration with our friends from the East End Film Festival brings to London one of the most anticipated Romanian films of 2013: Marian Crisan's Rocker. Victor is a former rebel without a cause still eluded by dreams of a conventional life.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival continues its love affair with Romanian cinema - at this year's 67th edition Tudor Giurgiu will present for the first time in the UK his newest feature Of Snails and Men (Despre oameni si melci). This production brings you

The sequel of the groundbraking hymn to Transylvanian landscapes, which brings into the frame a journey from the Danube's Iron Gate to its amazing Delta, premiers at BAFTA. The screening is complemented by a gueststar appearance of ethnographer and folklorist Grigore

The Romanian Cinematheque presents in May a gripping film about a group of foresters who have to live in the mountains far from their families: The Wood Cutters (Tapinarii), directed by Ioan Cărmăzan. The Wood Cutters is Ioan Carmazan's debut feature, a film that

We are thrilled to be showing throughout April four of Amza Pellea's most iconic films defining his screen persona, to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of one Romania's best and beloved actors.  The season is part of the Romanian Cinematheque, our regular

The March film at the Romanian Cinematheque is the poetic and visually evocative period drama Adela, by Mircea Veroiu, which won the Grand Prix at the 1985 San Remo Film Festival. Set in 1899, it is a story about one man's acceptance of middle age in the face of a

We are proud to team up with the Embassy of Israel for a preview screening of Warwick Davis: The Seven Dwarves of Auschwitz, a Chameleon TV production for ITV, which tells the extraordinary story of the Lilliput Troupe, seven dwarf siblings who all survived Auschwitz. The

The February film at the Romanian Cinematheque is the magnificent and emotional The Swords Swallower by Alexa Visarion, well known for his impressive career as a theatre director. The cast include some of the best and celebrated Romanian actors: Mircea Albulescu, Leopoldina

The Romanian Cinematheque reopens in 2013 with the screening of Gruber's Journey by director Radu Gabrea, to mark the International Holocaust Memorial Day. The film is inspired by Kaputt, the novel in which writer and war journalist Curzio Malaparte tells the real

The screening will be followed by a Skype Q&A session with award-winning director Cătălin Mitulescu and film journalist Edward Lawrenson Set during Ceauşescu's final year of reign in Romania, The Way I Spent the End of the World is a charmingly

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session via skype with director Marian Crişan. The Romanian Cinematheque presents in November one of the most critically-acclaimed Romanian films in the last few years, the masterpiece Morgen, directed by Marian Crişan.