Romanian Film Festival

The theme of the festival this year is Through the Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll used this metaphor in his writing to describe an unfamiliar or abnormal setting or situation. The phrase can be used to describe a world that suddenly appears unfamiliar, as if things were turned upside down, similar to looking out from inside a mirror to find a world that’s both recognizable and yet turned inside-out. It is like a confusing looking glass world or a mysterious looking glass philosophy.

Schedule

Sunday November 10, 1-3 pm

Three Kilometers to the End of the World (Trei Kilometri pana la Capatul Lumii)

2024, 115’, Romanian

Actor-turned-director Emanuel Pârvu examines the fallout of a homophobic assault in a rural community from multiple perspectives. Set in a conservative Danube Delta community, a gay teenager’s journey of self-discovery clashes with the traditional values upheld by his parents and neighbors. This film was a Palme d’Or contender at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and took home the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival for best feature film. Emanuel Parvu films a sick and yet so ordinary society, entangled in beliefs from another time, shaped by the gaze of others and the fear of the neighbor’s denunciation, tortured by corruption at every level, right down to the gendarmes, more inclined to excuse the facts – and even seek to cover them up – than to find and judge the aggressors.

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Date: November 2, 8 - 10, 2024