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BRASOV INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET (August 1-11, 2013).
Hotel ARO Palace - Brasov, Romania. |
The most important and rennouned non-violent Film Festival in the world.
The festival will take place in the ARO Palace hotel theater in Brasov, on August 1-11.
Taking into consideration that medicine has made remarcable progress, the festival organizers feel that organ donation should not be considered an abstract topic, but a real process that concerns hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
The main theme of the Brasov International Film Festival & Market this year: organ donation
ENGLISH SCHEDULE
AUGUST 1 - 8:00 PM
GALA NIGHT (DINNER IS SERVED) / FILM OUT OF COMPETITION
SEVEN POUNDS (2008; USA)
Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson
Directed by: Gabriele Muccino
From the director of The Pursuit of Happiness, Seven Pounds tells the story of a man with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers. The film features the cause of organ donation, this year’s theme of Brasov International Film Festival & Market. Beside his acting career Will Smith is known for his charity work, founding with his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation.
* Dress code: Formal
AUGUST 2 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
ARBITRAGE (2012; USA, Poland)
Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth
Directed by: Nicholas Jarecki
A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 3 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
THE AGES OF LOVE (2011; Italy)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio
Directed by: Giovanni Veronesi
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. But the things start to get complicated when he meets Micol... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years, except for one night... Adrian is an American professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. His peaceful existence is about to be disrupted by Viola.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 4 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
ONE DAY (2011; UK, USA)
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tom Mison
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 5 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE SNAKE (2011; China, Hong Kong)
Starring: Jet Li, Shengyi Huang, Raymond Lam
Directed by: Siu-Tung Ching
A master monk tries to protect a naive young physician from a thousand-year-old snake demon. A contest of psychic powers results in mayhem.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 6 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
SNOWFLAKE, THE WHITE GORILLA (2011; USA)
Stars: Elsa Pataky, K. Stroink, Manel Fuentes
Directed by: Andres G. Schaer
Snowflake is the only white gorilla in the world and his zoo's main attraction. With the help of Ailur, a Buddhist black panther reincarnated into the body of a red panda, and Paula, a smart little girl, Snowflake plans a sneak visit to the witch at the circus. But outside the safety of the zoo's walls, the three friends are in danger.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 7 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
THE DECOY BRIDE (2011; UK)
Starring: David Tennant, Kelly Jaworski, Alice Eve
Directed by: Sheree Folkson
When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 8 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
THE WORDS (2012; USA)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana
Directed by: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 9 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
CAPTAIN THUNDER (2011; Spain)
Starring: Natasha Yarovenko, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Alejandro Naranjo
Directed by: Antonio Hernandez
A 12th-century knight-errant wanders the world fighting injustice and is accompanied by his faithful friends Crispin and Goliath.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 10 - 8:30 PM
FILM IN COMPETITION
I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (2011; USA)
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
* Dress code: Semi-Formal
AUGUST 11 - 8:00 PM
AWARDS GALA NIGHT (DINNER IS SERVED) / FILM OUT OF COMPETITION
MY SISTER'S KEEPER (2009; USA)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack
Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
Born with a precise purpose, to save her elder sister from a terrible death, Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) fights for earning medical emancipation from her parents. With Cameron Diaz joining its cast, the film features the matter of organ donation, thus fitting the subject of the second edition of the Brasov International Film Festival & Market 2013. Cameron Diaz is known to be very socially committed creating in 2001 her own foundation, Begin Today for Tomorrow.
* Dress code: Formal
Brasov International Film Festival & Market thanks the following sponsors and media partners:
Staropramen (www.staropramen.com), Nissa (www.nissa.ro), Klopman (www.klopman.com), Kronwell Hotel (www.kronwell.com), Race the Oceans, Tourism Association - Brasov (www.brasovtourism.eu), Toronto Pictures (www.torontopictures.ning.com), Global Film Studio (www.globalfilmstudio.com), Brasov Film Center (www.rollywood.org), Art Act Magazine (www.artactmagazine.ro), Calendar Evenimente (www.calendarevenimente.ro).
