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We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming anthology Tales from the Golden Age, which will be released in theaters and VOD platforms including SundanceNow on August 17. Click below to watch this exclusive clip from the drama which delves into the final years of Romania's Ceausescu empire.

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The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as "the golden age"...

Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from a Golden Age aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every...

• Ioncinema.com Schedule: Starting off the day with Pedro and will verify whether Spanish critics are right with their assessment back in March, this will be followed by Cristian Mungiu and his four fellow directors in the 5 storied Tales From the Golden Age and might end it off with a film that I missed (on purpose) at the Sundance Film Fest and will only see because I've got a rare hole in my schedule with nothing that meets my interests. Worse case is I'll see Marco Bellocchio's Vincere on the final Sunday of the fest.  Main Comp: Broken Embraces from Pedro and Vincere from Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Un Certain Regard: Tales From the Golden Age from Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru. Tomorrow at Dawn comes to us via Denis Dercourt. Director's Fortnight: Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's La Pivellina, Cherien Dabis

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• If you're a distributor keen on foreign language fair, developing relationships with filmmakers is primordial in having an advantage on the competition: this is a tactic that IFC films regularly employs with foreign filmmakers (several come to mind as I write this). Despite receiving inadequate support for a foreign language nomination for the Oscars, the above mentioned relationship is one reason why IFC Films have been able to grab Cristian Mungiu and fellow Romanian filmmakers (Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu and Constantin Popescu) latest project titled Tales From the Golden Age. Unlike IFC folks, I'll be seeing the Un Certain Regard selected film this Thursday, and if I haven't declared often enough on the site – I'm a huge fan of Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (it received tons of accolades and last year's Palme d'or). I got to interview Mungiu at Tiff. Tales From The Golden Age is

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• To be more precise, the Un Certain Regard's entry of Tales From the Golden Age is a film by Cristian Mungiu and filmmakers Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu and Constantin Popescu. I'm not sure which images (below) correspond to which film/filmmaker, but what Mungiu wants to do is provide a balance to the point of view he offered in the grim portrait 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Mungiu told me that the short film project that looks back at the small misfortunes common Romanian folk had under communism will told on a much lighter note. Judging by the pics below, I'm expecting a couple of hilarious sequences. ...

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• So the inflatable doll magically coming to life tale was perhaps too “out there” for a main comp acceptance, but Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll came on over to Un Certain Regard section along with expect works from Romanian filmmakers Cristian Mungiu (Tales From The Golden Age) and Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective), France's Denis Dercourt (Demain Des L'aube), Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Nymph) and Cannes regular (The Host, Tokyo!) Bong Joon-Ho and his latest film, Mother. Lee Daniels' Sundance fave is going to Cannes with a buzz worthy, shorter titled Push – this great news explains why the film was pulled out of the New Directors/New Films 2009 fest. Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi who gave us the devastating Turtles Can Fly a couple of year back comes to the Ucr section with another oddly titled film in Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats. And speaking of Sundance, Cannes' own Atelier de

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