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Bucharest International Film Festival's 7th edition

The seventh edition of the Bucharest International Film Festival (Bucharest IFF) opens on Monday with the Cirkus Columbia made by Bosnian film director Danis Tanovic.

Designed as a festival open to the arts films discovering new talents and promoting young film directors, Bucharest IFF keeps its fame and during this year edition on April 11-17 it is staging a feature film contest where the best films are awarded the Bucharest IIF Trophy, the Prize for Best Image, along with the Critics and the Audience awards.All the vying films are absolute premiers in Romania, and 90 percent of them are feature film debuts.

The Festival's artistic director Andrei Cretulescu has selected the competing films, some of the best of the Film Year 2010, such as Abel, Mexican director Diego Luna's debut, Animal Kingdom the first film by Australian film director David Michod; Beyond, film direction debut of the famous actress Pernilla August, and whose film won the Settimana award at the Venice 2010 Film Festival, the Exit through the Gift Shop - film director debut of Banksy the legendary street artist drawer, a film nominee at the Oscar 2010 for the best documentary film; Four Lions - the first feature film by Chris Morris, winner of the BAFTA 2011 Award for the best debut; Meek's Cutoff directed by Kelly Reichardt; Winter's Bone the second feature film by Debra Granik.

IFF Bucharest's this year edition also enjoys the presence of two great film directors, namely Andrei Konchalovsky, due to arrive in Bucharest, on Friday April 15 and to stay for three days, and Danis Tanovic, who is in Romania, over April 11-13.

Another surprise the Festival's organizers have in store for the cinemagoers is Iranian film director Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin: A Separation that won the Golden Bear Award and the Silver Bear for the best actor (ex aequo to all male actors) and the Silver Bear for the best actress (ex aequo to all actresses), at this year edition of the Berlin Film Festival.

Bucharest IFF 2011 agenda also schedules Kaboom, the latest opus by Gregg Araki; the Mammoth, by Belgian film directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, who are also to attend the presentation of the film; A Sad Trumpet Ballad, a macabre and extremely violent allegory signed by Alex de la Iglesia; Tamara Drewe, Stephen Frears's latest film; the Reign of Assassins by Chao-Bin Su and John Woo; Greenberg by Noah Baumbach; Outrage by Takeshi Kitano; Carlos by Olivier Assayast; Somewhere, the most recent feature film by Sofia Coppola the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2010.A surprise the organizers have announced is Lucian Pintilie's revised masterpiece Why Are the Bells Ringing Mitica?

Bucharest IFF, initiated and coordinated by Dana Dimitriu - Chelba, is the single contest festival in Bucharest exclusively aimed at the feature films. Agerpres News Agency is one of the Festival's media partners.

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