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…
Read MoreDANTE 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…
Read MoreThe Island (Moldova) wins CoCo Award at TIFF 2017
6 feature film projects, 4 from Romania and 2 from Moldova, have competed in Transilvania Pitch Stop Workshop 2017, during TIFF festival. The Island Project (Moldova), directed by Dumitru Grosei and produced by Valentina Iusuphodjaev (Brio Film Production), won the CoCo Award. This means that, on 9th and 10th of November, they will have the opportunity to present their project at Connecting Cottbus 2017, an important co-production market, which takes place during Cottbus Film Festival. This market…
Read More2 Moldovan Film Projects at Transilvania Pitch Stop
11 feature film projects were selected for Transilvania Pitch Stop (TPS) and will be presented to international film professionals at the industry event organized by Transilvania IFF on June 9th & 10th, in Cluj, Romania. The projects come from 1st and 2nd time directors from Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Greece, Turkey and Georgia and are currently in development and financing. More than 60 feature film projects were submitted for the co-production platform, extended internationally as of this year.…
Read More3 Moldovan Films conquer Stockholm
Between 18th and 22nd December, at Stockholm the International Film Festival BaNeFF doc.short 2016 has occured. In the short-film category, 3 Moldovan films have monopolized the competition’s podium, in the following order: Ist Prize. PAPARUDA (r. Lucia Lupu) Motivation: To deny to a fellow water opens up a predisposition of barbarism. A genocide begins by people taken from the right to the most mundane things as a name, a…
Read MoreTHE GIFT in competition at BANEFF doc.short 2016 Film Festival
Between 19th and 22nd December, in Stockholm, will take place BANEFF doc.short (Balkan New Film Festival), in which 13 short films and 14 documentaries (all categories) will be screened in competition. THE GIFT will also participate. It is directed by Dumitru Grosei, produced by ROVA FILM and co-produced by ALTERNATIVE CINEMA. Also, 4 other Moldovan films will be in competition: PAPARUDA (Lucia Lupu), MILIKA (Valeriu Jereghi), FLUTULUS (Igor Sadovski) and RAISA…
Read More”The Gift” selected at Budapest
Between 30th August and 4th September, the XII-th edition of Busho Vision – Budapest Short International Film Festival will take place. ”The Gift” film, directed by Dumitru Grosei, produced by ROVA Film (Romania) and coproduced by Alternative Cinema (Moldova) has been selected in competition, with other 89 films, from a total of 1038 entries from 65 countries. To acces the site, click here
Read MoreOld Believers by Dumitru Grosei
A public screening, for the first time in Moldova, has taken place on 26th March. The documentary film, Old Believers is winner of the Diploma of Distinction at the Award Ceremony of UCIN Romania, in 2002 and selected at many other film festivals. It was directed by Moldovan director Dumitru Grosei (Cinematography by Oleg Mutu, Vadim Hâncu and Radu Zara). STAROVERII (Old Believers)- (52 min.) Immediately after the screening, film critic Marin Turea has presented a study…
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