Skopje, 14 October 2024 (MIA) — Cinematheque will screen five Romanian films during its Romanian Film Week through Oct. 18, beginning with Marian Crișan's "Warboy" (2023), followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker and a cocktail organized by the Romanian Embassy, on Monday evening.

The film is a war drama about a teenager embarking on a journey through the mountains to save his family's horses near the end of 1944. The cast includes Daniel Bâlis, Reginald Ammons, Eduard Adam, and Igor Babiac.

Marian Crișan (b. 1976, Salonta, Romania) directed the short films "Family Portrait" (2006), "Amateur" (2007) and "Megatron" (2008), which won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival. 

In 2010, his first feature film "Morgen" was the Romanian entry for the 84th Academy Awards. He also directed the feature films "Rocker" (2021), "Orizont" (2015), and "The Campaign" (2020).

On Tuesday, Cinematheque will screen Vlad Petri's docufiction film "Between Revolutions" (2023), a poetic story of the Iranian and Romanian uprisings, featuring the voices of Ilinca Harnut and Victoria Stoiciu.

"Mammalia" (2023) by Sebastian Mihailescu, a tragicomic horror drama starring István Téglás, Mãlina Manovici, Denisa Nicolae, and Steliana Balacianu, will be shown on Wednesday. 

Cinematheque will screen Alexandru Solomon's "Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife" (2023) on Thursday and Radu Jude's "Don't Expect Much from the End of the World" (2023) on Friday.

"Romanian cinema has experienced a real boom in the last two decades, the so-called 'new Romanian wave' bringing freshness and originality to the European film scene," organizers said in a press release.

Romanian Film Week 2024 "encourages important conversations and provides an insight into Romanian culture and issues," the release said.

According to organizers, contemporary Romanian films often share "a minimalist approach, documentary style, socio-political themes and strong criticism of post-communist society."

The films will be screened in Romanian, with Macedonian and English subtitles. mr/