Corneliu Porumboiu
While studying film directing, Corneliu PORUMBOIU (1975, Romania) had already made several short films. His A Trip to the City (2003) won a Cinéfondation Award in Cannes. After a period as artist-in-residence at Cinéfondation, he made his first feature 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006). The film won a number of awards, including the Caméra d’Or. His second feature, Police, Adjective (2009), won several prizes, among which the Jury Prize in Cannes and the FIPRESCI Prize. His later films include When Evening Falls On Bucharest Or Metabolism (2013, selected for Locarno), The Treasure (2015, selected for Cannes Un Certain Regard), the documentary Infinite Football (2018) and The Whistlers (2019), selected for the Cannes Competition.
Filmography
Pe aripile vinului/Gone with the Wine (2002, short), Calatorie la oras/A Trip to the City (2003, short), Visul lui Liviu/Liviu’s Dream (2004, short), A fost sau n-a fost?/12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), Politist, adjective/Police, Adjective (2009), Când se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau metabolism/When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013), The Second Game (2014), The Treasure (2015), Infinite Football (2018, doc), The Whistlers/La Gomera (2019)
More info: Wikipedia, Corneliu Porumboiu
Corneliu Porumboiu at IFFR
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Gone With the Wine
Country kid from Romania wants to emigrate and has to have a medical test first. On the way it gets a little too enjoyable.
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12:08 East of Bucharest
A small town. A local TV station. A talk-show host who has to look hard to find two unwilling guests to talk about the revolution 16 years ago. Yet it
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When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
Third feature by Romanian master starts with the year’s best film lesson: filmmaker seduces his supporting actress – in one take during a short car jo
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The Whistlers
A corrupt policeman gets into hot water in this lively, stylish and witty thriller from Romanian maestro Porumboiu.
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Licence to Play
Trailer made for the Transylvania International Film Festival in Cluj. The assigned theme for the series was ‘James Bond’, which Poromboiu embroidered
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Police, Adjective
Prize-winning and praised, this extremely calm and occasionally dry, cool yet irresistible story about the boundary between maintaining the law and a