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While several countries are still deliberating which film will represent them for the upcoming Foreign Films category at the Oscars, the Romanian National Center for Cinematography have announced their pic in Marian Crisan's Morgen. Scripted by Crisan and featuring Yalcin Yilmaz and Andras Hathazi, is about a man, Nelu (Hathazi), who lives near Romanian-Hungarian border, who works as a supermarket security guard and who just likes fishing. One day, though, he meets an illegal Kurdish immigrant and he has to decide whether to help him pass the border or not. Morgen grabbed four awards at last year Locarno Film Festival: Special Jury Prize, Third Prize of the Junior Jury Awards, Eucumenical Prize and Ficc/Iffs Prize. Crisan’s film also received Best Director and Best Actor (ex aequo - Andras Hathazi and Yilmaz Yalcin) at Thessaloniki Film Festival, while at the 3rd edition of CinEast festival, Morgen won The...

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Tuesday, After Christmas, and the other nominations for the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) have been announced. The 5th Annual Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) ”are the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (U.S.A.), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). They are presented by the Association for Romanian Film Promotion.” The full listing of the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) is presented below.

Best Film

Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceau?escu (The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu)

Producer, Velvet Moraru; Director, Andrei Ujic?

Eu când vreau s? fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle)

Producer, C?t?lin Mitulescu, Daniel Mitulescu; Director, Florin ?erban

Mar?i, dup? Cr?ciun (Tuesday, After Christmas)

Producer, Drago? Vîlcu; Director, Radu Muntean

Medalia de onoare (Medal of Honour)

Producer, Liviu Marghidan; Director, Peter C?lin Netzer

Morgen

Producer, Anca Puiu; Director, Marian Cri?...