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Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov and Decho Taralezhkov will be in the spotlight, alongside Anca Damian, Adina Dulcu, Miha Mazzini, Robert Budina, Uta Beria and Nana Janelidze. Running within the 20th Arras Film Festival (scheduled from 8 to 17 November 2019 – read our news), the 8th edition of Arras Days will unveil seven projects currently being written which are set to be pitched to a jury of three professionals on Saturday 16 November, and which will be battling it out for two development grants. Also intended to act as a coproduction and funding platform, Arras Days will provide any producers, distributers and sales agents interested in these projects with an opportunity to discover them in situ. One project which stands out amongst others in the running is Triumph, written by the Bulgarians Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov and Decho Taralezhkov, which...

After breaking out with documentary films such as “Fanfaron, Fanfaron” and “Mascarade” and a few shorts - “Epava” (The Wreck), “Ziua incepe noaptea” (The day starts during the night), “Say Joe” – Cornel Gheorghiță finished his first feature film: Europolis, which was selected for the Montreal World Film Festival, where it will compete in the First Films World Competition."I’ve been asked many times to include the film into a genre: fantastic drama? a legend? a ballad? a folkloric myth? a fairy tale? The only thing I can say is that it’s fiction. Against today’s author cinema trending, against this hyper-realistic current, Europolis doesn’t wish to copy reality; the reality is just a starting point for a imaginative foray in human’s soul", declared the director. Gheorghiță’s film concentrates on Magdalena and her son named Nae. They live in a small port of Sulina, in East...