CĂLĂRAȘI – A LAND BY THE GATE OF HEAVEN – won the Zlatna IEFF 2018 Trophy!

The documentary film CĂLĂRAŞI – A LAND BY THE GATE OF HEAVEN, directed by Dumitru Grosei, won the Festival’s Trophy “The best ethnographic film” at the Zlatna International Ethnografic Film Festival (ZIEFF) 2018. 722 productions from 85 countries have been submitted in the film competition. The jury of the 6th edition consisted of great personalities of the Romanian cinema: Prof. Copel Moscu (jury chairman), Prof. Grigore Gonţa, actress Eugenia Maci,…

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THE GIFT – selected at TO SAVE AND PRESERVE Film Festival in Russia

THE GIFT film has a new selection, this time in the official competition of the XXI International Ecological Film Festival TO SAVE AND PRESERVE. The film is produced by ALTERNATIVE CINEMA (Moldova), co-produced by ROVA FILM (Romania) and directed by Dumitru Grosei. The script was written by Marian Crișan and Dumitru Grosei. The festival is located in Russian Federation and is taking place between 3 – 8 June, 2018. It is dedicated…

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THE GIFT – selected at Green Valley International Film Festival 2018

Recently, THE GIFT film (Moldova/Romania, 2015) was selected in the official competition of the Green Valley International Film Festival 2018, which will take place in Istanbul (Turkey) between June 1st and 3rd, 2018. This is the third selection of THE GIFT film, for this beginning of the year. The film is an ALTERNATIVE CINEMA product (Moldova) and co-produced by ROVA FILM (Romania), directed by Dumitru Grosei. The script was written by…

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THE GIFT film – selected at FUICLA 2018 in Morocco

THE GIFT film (Moldova/Romania, 2015) has been selected in the official competition of FUICLA – International Cine-Letter Film Festival 2018, dedicated to short films inspired by literary works. THE GIFT – is a film produced by ALTERNATIVE CINEMA (Moldova) and co-produced by ROVA FILM (Romania), directed by Dumitru Grosei. The script was written by Marian Crișan and Dumitru Grosei, being a free adaptation of Nicolae Labiș’ famous poem “The Death of the Deer”. The…

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DANTE CAFÉ – selected at CortoNero 2018

The film DANTE CAFÉ (Moldova, 2018) has been selected at the CortoNero_noir short film competition. DANTE CAFÉ – is a short experimental film of a 2 min. 26 sec. duration, produced by ALTERNATIVE CINEMA and directed by Dumitru Grosei. The festival takes place annually on March 17-18 in the city of Naples and is dedicated to films that address the noir or mystery style. Naples is an old Italian city…

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John Donică’s short films

On 23rd january 2014, at the ”Ștefan cel Mare” Library, Alternative Cinema has screened 2 short films of independent Moldovan filmmaker John Donică (contestant in several international film festivals). Screened films: La marginea pădurii (At the edge of the forest) – (duration: 21′) Momente de tăcere (Moments of silence) – (duration: 2′). This film was to be developed until 2016 into a feature-length documentary, with the same name. Below, you can see the trailer…

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