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Who Is Daciana in Interview With the Vampire S2? Meet Actress Diana Gheorghian - Main Image

As the new season 2 welcomes Interview with the Vampire back to our screens, we encounter an ancient vampire, Daciana, who "burned" herself. Meet the new character and where you may have seen Daciana's actress, Diana Gheorghian.

Content Spoilers: This article contains spoilers for Interview with the Vampire series, so proceed with caution.

Meet Diana Gheorghian and Where You've Seen Her Before

Before we get to know more about Diana Gheorghian's Daciana in Interview with the Vampire season 2, the Romanian actress is best known for a couple of notable roles she has played in theaters.

As a graduate of the Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1985, the 63-year-old actress had previously made her on-stage debut in the Odeon in Bucharest.

Since then, Diana has starred in projects like Raliul (1984) as Tăsica Pribeag, The White Lace Dress (1989) as Doina,...

Mubi is kicking off the new year with a selection of our 2021 highlights, including some of which haven’t picked up proper distribution yet. Most notably, their own release, Alexandre Koberidze’s dazzling What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, will premiere along with a New Voices in Georgian Cinema series. Also arriving is Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden, Ana Katz’s The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu, and Nino Martínez Sosa’s Liborio.

As part of a series of first films, they’ll also feature works from Janicza Bravo, Noah Baumbach, Garrett Bradley, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Terry Gilliam, and more. A double bill of Federico Fellini classics, Nights of Cabiria and The White Sheik, will also come to the platform.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

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Big World Pictures

Founded in 2013 and run almost single-handedly by Jonathan Howell, Big World Pictures is a non-profit distribution outfit dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States.

“As an expansion of the mission of our critically-acclaimed short film distribution wing, The World According to Shorts, Big World Pictures is dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States. We acquire only three to four feature films annually for theatrical release, in addition to several short films (to be released through The World According to Shorts), and ten to twelve feature films annually for video/VOD/TV release.”

Opening at Laemmle’s Royal in L.A. day and date with New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on June 23, Luc Bondy’s modern-day adaptation of the classic Marivaux play, “False Confessions”, starring Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel and Bulle Ogier...

Aferim!

Director: Radu Jude // Writers: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu

Romanian director Radu Jude’s 2012 sophomore film, Everybody in Our Family was a tense, hysterical familial drama that immediately confirmed his place as one of the country’s most promising new voices. His latest is an ambitious period piece, titled Aferim! (which means, Bravo!) and tackles the subject of Gypsy slavery in the 19th century. The film is headlined by Teodor Corban, a performer who has appeared in some of Romania’s most noted titled, including 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, 12:08 East of Bucharest, and Child’s Pose. We’ve been highly anticipating Jude’s next feature, which apparently filmed last summer.

Cast: Teodor Corban, Toma Cuzin, Mihaela Surbu

Producers: HiFilm’ Productions’ Ada Solomon, Klas Film, EndorFilm.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

Release Date: While The Happiest Girl in the World and Everybody in Our Family landed in Berlin, based on...

This year’s European Co-Production Award – Prix Eurimages will go to Ada Solomon from Romania.

The award, acknowledging the role of co-productions in the European film industry, will be presented during the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Dec 7.

Since setting up HiFilm, Solomon has produced award-winning shorts by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena From P7) and Radu Jude (The Tube With A Hat).

She also produced debut features by Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl In The World), Melissa de Raaf, Razvan Radulescu (First Of All, Felicia), Paul Negoescu (A Month In Thailand), and documentaries by Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism - Our Improved Formula), among others.

She has produced the Eurimages-supported film Best Intentions by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards at the Locarno Iff 2011 and of two Romanian Gopos Awards, and Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude which was also supported by Eurimages and won six Gopos Awards and the ‘Heart of Sarajevo’ 2012.

She is currently developing...

This year’s European Co-Production Award – Prix Eurimages will go to Ada Solomon from Romania.

The award, acknowledging the role of co-productions in the European film industry, will be presented during the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on Dec 7.

Since setting up HiFilm, Solomon has produced award-winning shorts by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena From P7) and Radu Jude (The Tube With A Hat).

She also produced debut features by Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl In The World), Melissa de Raaf, Razvan Radulescu (First Of All, Felicia), Paul Negoescu (A Month In Thailand), and documentaries by Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism - Our Improved Formula), among others.

She has produced the Eurimages-supported film Best Intentions by Adrian Sitaru, winner of two awards at the Locarno Iff 2011 and of two Romanian Gopos Awards, and Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude which was also supported by Eurimages and won six Gopos Awards and the ‘Heart of Sarajevo’ 2012.

She is currently developing...

Romanian film producer Ada Solomon: European Film Awards’ Prix Eurimages 2013 The European Film Academy has announced that the 2013 European Co-Production Award — Prix Eurimages will go to Romanian film producer Ada Solomon. The purpose of the European Film Awards’ Prix Eurimages is to acknowledge "the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry." (Photo: Ada Solomon.) According to the European Film Academy’s press release, Ada Solomon has been in the film business for two decades. She is Head of Distribution at Parada Film and Executive Director of the NexT International Film Festival in Bucharest. Additionally, she teaches at the Romanian capital’s National Film School and, along with Tudor Giurgiu, manages three mini-plex movie theaters in that country. Ada Solomon movies Since establishing her production company HiFilm, Ada Solomon productions include documentaries by her husband, filmmaker Alexandru Solomon (Kapitalism — Our Improved Formula); shorts directed by Cristian Nemescu (Marilena...

Scarred Hearts, the novel, by the Romanian-Jewish author Max Blecher, will be made into a film produced by the multi-talented and successful Romanian producer, Ada Solomon. This is a great follow-up to her Golden Bear winning Child’s Pose by Călin Netzer (Isa: Beta Cinema). Child's Pose is also Romania's submission for Nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Scarred Hearts will be directed by Radu Jude. This will be the third time the pair will team up after the films The Happiest Girl In the World and Everybody In Our Family.

Published in 1937, Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate) chronicles the life of a Romanian student suffering from spinal tuberculosis who falls in love with another patient in a sanatorium near the French coast. Emmanuel, a young man with spinal tuberculosis and confined to a sanatorium outside Paris, narrates his and his fellow patients’ attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly atrophy and die. Blending dark humor and pathos, Scarred Hearts was hailed as a masterpiece on publication in Romanian in 1939, and was more recently compared to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain and the fiction of Franz Kafka.

Jude has not yet decided on a Director of Photography; however, he stated that he plans to continue his exploration about the relationship between people and their bodies, as he did in his previous short piece Shadow of a Cloud (O umbră de nor). With an estimated budget of 1.2 million Euros, Solomon will produce through HiFilm Productions, other producers from France and Germany have also shown interest in the project which is expected to start shooting in 2015, and to premier in 2016.

Heavy on the French film items and with a side dish of Chilean influence, this year’s Directors’ Fortnight also known as the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is offering “double” Alejandro Jodorowosky, and the highly anticipated titles we predicted from the likes of Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and Serge Bozon (Tip Top). Repping Chile, we have Sebastián Silva’s Magic Magic (review) which is joined by another Sundance preemed title in Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are (fittingly this is the remake of Somos lo que hay (which was featured in the section in 2010). Upping the sci-fi quotient by joining the already announced The Congress, we find Ruairi Robinson highly anticipated feature debut with Last Days On Mars. Anurag Kashyap makes it two for two years, after unloading the almost six hour Gangs of Wasseypur, he returns with Ugly, while Tehilim (Main Comp in 2007) helmer Raphaël Nadjari returns...

A first look into what’s ahead from some of our favorite auteurs, 2013′s CineMart (held during the Int. Film Festival Rotterdam) boosts an impressive selection of projects from the likes of Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel (The Headless Woman) who’ll be lensing Zama – the adaptation of a period piece about Don Diego de Zama, a 17th-century official for the Spanish crown based in Asuncion del Paraguay, who awaits his transfer to the city of Buenos Aires. We’ve got Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos from Dogtooth and Alps fame, who the last time we spoke to mentioned how he was looking to break into English language film territory and we think The Lobster might be that first foray. Among the other Cannes Film Festival introduced filmmakers who’ll be seeking coin in Rotterdam we have Michael Rowe (Leap Year) who brings Rest Home, Alice Rohrwacher (Corpo celeste) who tackles Le Meraviglie,...

★★★★☆ From Radu Jude, the director of The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), comes London Film Festival entry Everybody in Our Family (2012). An almost unequivocal critical hit at this year's Berlinale, this exhilarating Romanian comedy is one of this year's most enjoyable and perfectly executed inclusions at the Lff. Jude's film focuses on Marius (Serban Pavlu), a divorced dentist in his late thirties whose life is currently in a state of disarray. He's about to embark on a trip to the seaside with his five year-old daughter Sofia (Sofia Nicolaescu), however she lives with his estranged wife and her new husband.

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A masterwork of black comedy and suspense, director Radu Jude's "Everybody In Our Family" typifies the best qualities of contemporary Romanian cinema. Tense to the point of exhaustion, brilliantly shot to evoke a real time effect, and filled with immersive long takes and naturalistic performances, Jude's third feature (following "The Happiest Girl in the World" and "A Film For Friends") chronicles the dissolution of family bonds with relentless innovation. Even when heartbreakingly honest and sad, it still manages to sustain a heightened sense of hilarity.    In terms of precedents, "Everybody In Our Family" calls to mind Radu Muntean's recent "Tuesday, After Christmas," which brings a similar approach to its portrait of a crumbling marriage. Narratively speaking, "Everybody in Our Family" is an unofficial sequel: With different characters, Jude's story picks up where "Tuesday" left...

I’ve seen well over 150 new films this year – far more than I have ever seen in any previous year – and so this “top 10″ has been the most difficult ever. There is no room here for so many very, very good films and honourable mentions go to Dogtooth, Four Lions, Micmacs, Life During Wartime and No One Knows About Persian Cats. After much thought, I’ve included films here that weren’t released in the UK in 2010, basically because carrying films over to next year is a burden I don’t wish to bear as I have in previous years (carrying films over can result in your forgetting to mention them entirely, and they end up in a state of top 10 limbo).

Here is my personal favourite ten films of 2010:

10) Of Gods and Men, dir Xavier Beauvois, (France)

‘Of Gods and Men’ is a sober and thoughtful film based...

Chris Nolan’s cerebral & epic summer blockbuster Inception, David Fincher’s compelling account of the creation of Facebook with The Social Network, David O’Russell’s uplifiting boxing drama The Fighter, Darren Aronofsky’s masterfully told & wholly original Black Swan, Martin Scorsese’s love letter to 40′s horror/thrillers with Shutter Island…. so many great 2010 movies to choose from for Owf’s Best Film of the Year, and so many stunning performances there within.

Which movie & which performances will ultimately be crowned the top prizes? You decide!

Below is the Owf Awards Ballot, giving you guys the chance to decide what movie/performances were truly the best in 2010.

Working just like our Oscar retrospectives, all you need to do to make sure your voices is heard is to fill in the following form with your 5 choices for each category (1 being the highest weighted, and 5 being the lowest) and later this...

Romanian cinema at 58th San Sebastian Festival will be represented by Principles of Life (Principii de viață). Constantin Popescu's sophomore feature has been selected to compete in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. The film examines the rapport between father and son, and in a nutshell is about the generation gaps and the inability to communicate. Emilian Velicanu, 43, considers his life positively full: he has money, a new villa, he is married for the second time to a young woman with whom he has a baby and has a son from his first marriage. Before the holidays arrive, he makes plans to leave his business on autopilot during his time off, but complications ensue, and this end of the day crisis makes him wonder if he's really happy and fulfilled. The screenplay for Principles of Life has had a story of its own. It failed to win at a previous edition...

In the Us, the sequel came in third after Shrek and Prince of Persia. Why was it a disproportionate hit here? Plus, how some canny strategising saved Chris Morris's Four Lions from slipping too far down the charts

The winner

Sex and the City 2 may have opened disappointingly in the Us, taking just $37m (£25m) to land at number three, but here in the UK it's a totally different story. The critically lambasted sequel took £6.1m over the three-day weekend, and £7.4m including bank holiday Monday. By rule of thumb, the Us result indicated a UK opening of around £3.7m was likely, but the actual outcome was 65% better than that. It's hard to know what went so right in Britain and so wrong in North America, although it's perhaps relevant that the film faced stiffer competition from fellow new entrant Prince of Persia in the Us (whereas that...

The Time That Remains (15)

(Elia Suleiman, 2009, UK/Ita/Fra/Bel) Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Samar Tanus, Shafika Bajjali. 110 mins

As he did in 2002's Divine Intervention, Suleiman fashions Middle East tensions into something resembling a deadpan arthouse sketch show at times, but the stylised comedy is folded into 60 years of family history this time. The first portion is particularly striking, dealing with the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and Suleiman's father's part in it as a Palestinian resistance fighter. As time and relatives move on, the story becomes more reflective and fragmented, but elegant choreography and tender observation hold it together.

Sex And The City 2 (15)

(Michael Patrick King, 2010, Us) Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon. 146 mins

Us-Arab relations get a stiletto in the eye, as the foursome descend on Abu Dhabi in this overlong but doubtless unstoppable sequel, adding Islamophobic cultural challenges to their perpetual relationship/ageing/wardrobe issues.

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (12A)

(Mike Newell, 2010, Us) Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina. 116 mins

You can tell by the title, the presence of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the colossal expense how badly this wants to be the next Pirates Of The Caribbean. But it follows the family-friendly franchise formula so slavishly, there are few surprises. On the plus side, the leads are perfectly likable, the pace lively and the Arabian-themed spectacle impressive, but the British accents and incongruous Iraq-invasion parallel only point up what a dubious post-Orientalist wish-fulfilment it really is.

Bad Lieutenant (18)

(Werner Herzog, 2009, Us) Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer. 122 mins

At last Herzog finds a replacement for the infamous Klaus Kinski, as Cage's long-repressed wild side is, er, uncaged, in an ironic portrait of post-Katrina cop corruption. Nothing like the original, it's more of an insane black comedy, with pulp crime...

The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival is set to run June 17-27 in a brand new location. Oh, it’s still in L.A, but it’s moving across town, from Westwood — where it’s been held the past few years — all the way over to Downtown.

The main “hub” for the fest will be the new L.A. Live complex, but there will also be screenings at other locations, such as the Downtown Independent and Redcat theaters. The city is really trying to build downtown up into a major arts and culture hub, so the festival moving there fits in with that agenda. Film Independent, the organization that runs Laff, also runs the annual Independent Spirit Awards, an event that also moved downtown — from Santa Monica — this year.

On Bad Lit, I tend to like to put up festival lineups that include days and times of screenings. However, since I...

Like the headline says, the complete lineup for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival has been announced and it's a fascinating, eclectic mix. How happy am I to see music doc Separado! in there? Pretty damn happy, as it's one of my absolute favorites of the year and has been resoundingly overlooked.  Read the complete announcement below!

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Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American...

Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world.

The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 40 countries. This year, the Festival received more than 4,700 submissions from filmmakers around the world. The final selections represent 28 World, North American, and U.S. premieres, which more...

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- Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right to Kick Off Festival   -

- World Premiere of Universal Pictures' 3-D CGI Feature Despicable Me Selected for Closing Night   -

- Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to have World Premiere -

- Galas include Animal Kingdom, Cyrus, Mahler on the Couch, Revolución,& Waiting for Superman   -

Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing...

Those compiling their best of the year lists would do well to consult the roll-call of gong-winners handed out by an august band of international critics

Any perspicacious film festival-goer or festival-watcher will have noticed that one of the prizes awarded at most festivals, in addition to the Golden Palms, Golden Lions or Golden Leopards etc, is the Fipresci (Federation International de la Presse Cinematographic) – aka the international film critics' award. In principle, this should be the most prestigious and sought-after prize of all, because the juries are made up of professional film critics (usually five, each from a different country) who are paid to tell the public what is good or bad and why.

Unfortunately, the Fipresci prize does not carry with it any money but, in theory, it does help the film gain a distributor. However, on one occasion, I remember that a director, who had just won the Fipresci prize,...

Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the gills with obscure titles and names that even a hardcore connoisseur of world cinema such as myself is unfamiliar with. - I've just completed an exhaustive 35 film slate at Tiff and I've got very little time to recharge the batteries for The Festival du nouveau cinéma. Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the...

Cologne, Germany -- It's a double Dutch treat at this year's Berlinale Forum with two debut features from the Netherlands: Sonja Wyss' "Winter Silence" and Radu Jude's Romanian-Dutch co-production "The Happiest Girl In The World" selected for the Berlin Film Fest's avant garde sidebar.

In "Winter Silence," the chaste isolated lives of a widow and her four adult daughters are transformed by the arrival of mysterious deer-men. The experimental work won a Golden Calf for sound design at last year's Netherlands Film Festival.

"The Happiest Girl In The World" is a more conventional story: a drama about an 18-year-old girl who wins a new car only to find herself on a collision course with her parents -- who want to keep the prize for themselves. Jude's script was one of the winners of the 2008 Sundance/Nhk International filmmaker awards.

The full Forum lineup will be announced later this month.