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‘To a Land Unknown’ Wins Main Prize at Transilvania Film Festival in Year Focused on Future of Cash Rebate, Promise of Romanian Series
'To a Land Unknown,' 'Xoftex' win big at Transilvania Film Festival in year marked by political turns in Romania, revamped cash rebate.
Conversations around the future of the country’s film industry took a timely turn when a new prime minister was announced during the festival, leading local filmmakers to wonder about pressing issues such as the continuity of Romania’s recently revamped cash rebate. Elias Ferchin Musuret’s “Brothers” sets out to explore the undercurrent of sex-related human trafficking; Bogdan Drumea’s “The Accountant” and Viorel Ursu’s “The Fragrance of the Linden Trees” both grapple with widespread fraud schemes in post-communist Romania in the ’90s; and Alex Pintică and Alberto Niculae’s “ReGYM” tries to find the great Romanian sitcom by examining the modern young man through several stereotypes in a gym. Over the last decade, film directors have begun crossing the threshold into TV, with names like Igor Cobileanski briefly taking a step back from cinema to direct series such as HBO’s “Shadows” and “Hackerville.”
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