Mimi Brănescu

Created by Antonio Gades in collaboration with Carlos Saura, this matchless production shows how the explosive power and intensity of feeling in traditional Spanish flamenco can bring vividly to life the sultry passion, earthy emotion, love and rivalry that is Carmen. Vanesa Vento lives and breathes Carmen, emphasizing the many faces of this character, female, passionate and freedom fighter, but fickle in love as she shamelessly flirts with men she likes, inspiring desire, rivalry and jealousy amongst both the men and other women. But Carmen's gypsy wildness becomes her own downfall when she discards Don José's (Ángel Gil) love for that of the bullfighter (Jairo Rodríguez), as possessed by a piercing despair Don José kills her.

Two young artists, a violin player and an actress, fight to achieve their dreams and keep their relationship together during Christmastime.

Another bright star in the shining constellation of the new Romanian Cinema from director Radu Muntean. In SUMMER HOLIDAY a husband and father finds himself caught between family obligations and the temptation of a night out like in the good old days. On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and four year old son in tow, Bogdan Ciocazanu, aka “Boogie,” runs into his best friends from high school. They begin to reminisce about their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades. Having certain frustrations about his job, his marriage, his life, Boogie decides to let loose and spend one night of shocking freedom with his friends: drinking, games, flirting and prostitutes. The movie’s husband and wife are played by Dragos Bucur, who lit up the screen in the award-winning Romanian films POLICE, ADJECTIVE and THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU; and Anamaria Marinca, star of 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS and FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN. From IFC Films.

American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger,