From 3 to 11 September, the Instituto Cultural Rumano and Cineteca Madrid present a selection of recent Romanian films as part of the 11th Romanian Film Festival.
The exhibition is made up of five diverse proposals, both formally and thematically, but which also have a common thread. Most of them deal with communism in Romania, the repression, the hardships of the system, the life of millions under communism, the prisons that resemble concentration camps, the authoritarian yoke and the stagnation of the economy, the cult of personality and the terror exercised by the political police, the dreaded Securitate. But these are not the only themes of the event. One of the films is an adaptation of a 19th century text written by the Russian philosopher and poet Vladimir Solovyev and another film deals with framed social issues, corruption, bureaucracy and the inability of the system to meet the basic needs of its citizens. All films will be shown in the original version with English subtitles. Tickets are available on the Cineteca’s website, and the programme and timetable can be consulted at this link.
