Romanian Times | Noiembrie 2025

ROMANIANTIMES Cel mai mare festival de film românesc din Statele Unite. Propunerea României pentru Oscar a deschis evenimentul. Staruri și premiere românești pentru prima dată într-o locație celebră din Georgetown. Ambasada României în Statele Unite și Institutul Cultural Român de la NewYork auorganizat, între 13 și 16noiembrie 2025, ceade-a șasea ediție aFestivalului de FilmRomânesc de laWashington / Romanian FilmFestival ofWashington, D.C. , care a reușit să devină cel mai mare eveniment de acest gen din spațiul nord american . Evenimentul a avut loc în unul dintre cele mai cunoscute cinematografe ale capitalei americane - AMC Georgetown 14, Washington, D.C. , situat în elegantul cartier Georgetown, nu departe de Kennedy Center. Sub titlul „New Romanian Perspectives” , Festivalul a prezentat șase filme recente, care confirmă vitalitatea, originalitatea și recunoașterea internațională ale filmului românesc contemporan. Selecția, girată de criticul de film Mihai Fulger , traversează genuri și stiluri diverse, de la dramă psihologică și documentar social, la satiră politică și biografie sportivă. În deschidere, a fost prezentat „Jaful secolului” , scris și produs de Cristian Mungiu și regizat de TeodoraAnaMihai, propunerea României la Premiile Oscar 2026 pentru categoria Best International Feature Film . Programul a mai inclus filmele: „Dinți de lapte” (r. Mihai Mincan), „Tata” (r. Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc), „Comatogen” (r. Igor Cobileanski), „Nasty” (r. Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D. Popescu) și „Anul Nou care n-a fost” (r. BogdanMureșanu). TRAFFIC - Original title: Jaful secolului • Original title: Jaful secolului • 2024, 119’ / Director: TeodoraAna Mihai Aheistdrama,writtenandproducedbyCristian Mungiu and directed by Teodora Ana Mihai, starring Anamaria Vartolomei, Ionuț Niculae and Rareș Andrici, Traffic follows a group of Romanian immigrants in Belgiumwho decide MILKTEETH • Original title: Dinți de lapte • 2025, 104’, subtitles • Director: Mihai Mincan Romania, 1989 — the twilight of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the last witness to her sister’s mysterious • Original title: TATA • 2024, 82’, subtitles • Directors: Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc Afteryearsofestrangement,Lina,aMoldovan journalist, receives a video message from her father, a migrant worker in Italy, showing bruises on his arms. Equipping him with a hidden camera, she embarks on a parallel journey — uncovering a cycle of domestic • Original title: Comatogen • 2025, 105’, subtitles • Director: Igor Cobileanski Alina,aforty-somethingnurse(abrilliantDaniela Nane), earns amodest living by caring for Klaus, a comatose patient, taking on extra shifts tomake ends meet. A single mother, she still supports her grown son, Radu, who struggles to find his place in life and inwork.WhenAlina reconnects with Pavel, a high school friend turned real estate agent, a spark of romance rekindles — and • Original title: Nasty – More Than Just Tennis • 2024, 104’, subtitles • Directors: Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D. Popescu 1972. Ilie Năstase wins his first US Open, reaches both the Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals, and writes tennis history. Nasty explores his highs and lows, the controversies that surrounded the world’s top-ranked • Original title: Anul Nou care n-a fost • 2024, 138’, subtitles • Director: Bogdan Mureșanu December 20, 1989. Romania is on the brink of revolution, but few dare to speak. Life appears to go on as usual: censored theater plays, demolished homes, mass rallies, and the paradox of artists mocking the regime even as they prepare New Year’s tributes to Ceaușescu. In their cold apartments, ordinary people still grapple with age-old struggles — to pull off a robbery that could change their lives forever. Inspired by the 2012 theft of paintings by Picasso, Monet, and Gauguin from a Dutch museum, the film is acclaimed for its stellar cast —particularlyAnamaria Vartolomei’s performance—and its complex storytelling, which blends black comedy, social satire, and political commentary. disappearance. Torn by grief and fear, she struggles to understand a reality collapsing around her. Can she find the courage to grow up as the world she knows disintegrates? violence that has haunted her family for generations. Filmed across Italy, Moldova, and Romania, Tata is a raw and deeply human portrait of a family struggling against toxic masculinity. It tells the story of a daughter’s emotional quest to break the cycle — for herself, for her children, and even for the man who hurt her. with it, a glimmer of hope. Pavel even offers Radu a position in his agency, giving Alina a sense that life may finally be turning a corner. Yet what begins as a quiet renewal soon unravels when a stolen envelope exposes a secret that was never as well kept as it seemed.As small compromises deepen into grave ethical dilemmas, Alina finds herself caught between loyalty, love, and the imperative of doing the right thing. An impeccably acted and directed psychological thriller, about impossiblemoral choices. family conflicts, nostalgia, love, resentment —while the Secret Police watches from the shadows. Six seeminglyparallel stories converge at the soundof afirecracker, culminating in the end of an era and the fall of a regime. player of 1973, and his lasting influence on the sport. Lovable, gifted, and generous — yet temperamental and provocative — Năstase broke tennis’s old etiquette with his showmanship and became its first rock star. Mai multe informații sunt disponibile pe site-urile: www.romanianfilmfestivaldc.com și www.rciusa.info