The fourth edition of Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest will take place from 25-31 October and brings the most anticipated films of the year from the festival on the Cote d’Azur.

Two premieres that will delight the viewers brought actors Bérénice Bejo and Bruce Dern the interpretation trophies at Cannes this year: Le passé , directed by Iranian filmmaker Oscar Asghar Farhadi, and Nebraska, by Alexander Payne. Both will be screened for the first time in Romania.

Asghar Farhadi – the director who won the Golden Bear and the Oscar for best foreign film for excellent Nader and Simin : A Separation (2011 ), returns with a drama that brought the actress Bérénice Bejo a Cannes prize for interpretation. Le passé won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Cannes and will represent Iran at the 2014 Oscars.

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It is a drama “complex and often brilliant, with intelligent interpretations and retained; it has a stylish mosaic details, unexpected twists, turns and revelations full of suspense,” according to The Guardian. Four years after their separation, the man comes to Tehran from Paris, at his French wife’s request to begin the formalities of divorce. During his short stay, he discovers that between his wife and daughter there is a tensed relationship. His efforts to diminish this conflict lead to the revealing of a secret from the past. Bérénice Bejo is joined by Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Sabrina Ouazani or Valeria Cavalli.

Actor Bruce Dern, in Nebraska, the sixth American film director Alexander Payne, also impressed the judges and audience at Cannes. At the award ceremony in Cannes, the actor received the trophy for Best Actor for a part of old man who believes he won the jackpot in a lottery correspondence, and who wants to get to Nebraska in order to get the prize. The family is worried this is a sign of senility and they intend to take him to a shelter for old people, but one of his sons agrees to accompany him to Nebraska. Along the way , the old man forces him to stop for a few days in the city, where he finds the whole past.

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Filmed in black and white, the film actors are both professionals as well as non-professional. It is, as noted Scott Foundas, film critic at  Variety , a sort of  “ode to small-town Midwestern life and the quixotic dreams of stubborn old men. ” Alexander Payne has directed About Schmidt (2002 ) with Jack Nicholson, Sideways (2004 ) and The Descendants (2011 ) with George Clooney.

A special event at Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest will be Polluting Paradise (Garbage in the Garden of Eden), a documentary project directed by Fatih Akin, projected at the Special Screenings section at the Cannes Film Festival last year. German director of Turkish origin is the multi-award-winning films, such as Gegen die Wand (Golden Bear at Berlin, 2004), The Edge of Heaven (Best Screenplay, Cannes 2007) or Soul Kitchen (2009).

For five years, Fatih Akin documented the battle of inhabitants from a village in Turkey, Camburnu, with the government after it decided that there will be installed a huge landfill. What chance have ordinary people everywhere, in the battle with the most powerful institutions of state? is the question of who started the documentary. The landfill has profoundly changed lives: from pollution and unbearable smell up the threat that nobody will buy products grown in the area.

via filmedefestival.ro