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15 feature films, 12 first-feature films, 31 short films and 16 documentaries were competing for the second 2010 contest of Romanian National Film Center of Cinematography. Only a few of them received some money though. The biggest grant (over 480.000$) was given to (see above) Andrei Gruzsnizcki’s Evadarea (The Escape), the director’s second feature, after Cealaltă Irina (The Other Irina). Its story happens during winter so the shooting will start most probably at the end of this year and will continue in the first few months of 2012. The Escape is produced by Icon Production, the company that has made the most acclaimed Romanian documentary in years – The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu. Corneliu Gherghiță’s Domnul de la Curte received the second biggest grant (over 432.000$), while Călin Netzer’s Poziția copilului (The Child’s Position) with the screenplay written by Răzvan Rădulescu grabbed almost 350.000$. Other feature films that received money from the Romanian National Center...

In 2010, filmmakers Mihai Ionescu and Tiberiu Iordan will have completed their first feature film. In June, at Moscow Film Festival, their movie – Different Mothers (Despre alte mame) – received the Award of the International Film Club's Federation. This Friday, the film will be released domestically in Romania. Different Mothers is based on a true story that happened to polish movie director Krzysztof Kieslowski during the filming Dworzec (Station). Kieslowski and his small team were filming in a railway station during the night for a documentary when the police came and asked them for their footage to see if it can be used as evidence in a criminal case. What Kieslowski filmed couldn’t help the police at all. But the Polish director started to think a lot about “What if… the police found something useful? What if… I had moved the camera a little to the left and not to the right?...