OXYGEN
(40′, 2010, by Adina Pintilie)
Creative team:
Cast: Cezar Antal, Adriana Mocca, Gabriel Spahiu
Rudy Rosenfeld
Director/Scriptwriter: Adina Pintilie
Director of photography: Marius Iacob
Editing/Sound : Tudor Petre
Set/Costume Designer: Andrada Chiriac
Music: Cristi Lolea/Marius Galea
Executive producer: Doina Dragnea
Associate producer: Rik Vermeulen
Produced by:
FILMEX ROMANIA
MANEKINO FILM
CINEMA STUDIO OF ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE
During the communist dictatorship in Romania (1945-1989), thousands of people risked their lives in the attempt to run away from the country. Despair made them invent the most incredible methods to cross the border illegally. Some of them managed to escape, but many lost their lives in these attempts.
OXYGEN is a free re-enactment of such a real case: a man who tried to cross the Danube illegally using an oxygen cylinder. Yet, the facts are reinterpreted in a highly subjective vision. At the crossover between fiction and documentary, blending beautifully shot imagined re-enactment and strange archive materials, in visuals and sounds of haunting quality, the film depicts an emotional landscape, a man’s inner journey towards a healing hereafter
Premiere date:
28.01.2010 - Festivalul International de Film Rotterdam
Festivals / Awards:
Festivalul International de Film Rotterdam 2010-Tiger Award Short Film Competition
Festivalul International de Film Buenos Aires BAFICI 2010 - Panorama
Festivalul International de Film Montpellier 2010 - International Short Film Competition
Festivalul International de Film Thessaloniki 2010 - Balkan Survey
Festivalul International de Film Tampere 2011 - Adina Pintilie's Retrospective
Festivalul International de Film Bilbao Zinebi Spania 2010 - International Competition
Festivalul International de Film Cork 2010 - International Competition
Festivalul International de Film Varsovia 2010 - International Short Film Competition
Festivalul International de Film Cambridge 2011 - Romanian New Wave Celebration
Premiul pentru cel mai bun scurtmetraj european - Festivalul International de Scurtmetraj In Drama Grecia 2011 - International Competition
Nominalizare Premiul Silver Eye - Festivalul International de la Jihlava 2011
Short Film Corner - Festivalul de Film Cannes 2010
Festivalul International de Film Independent Lisabona 2010 - International Short Film Competition
Festivalul International de Film Rio de Janeiro - FEMINA 2010 - Short Film Competition
Festivalul International de Film Prishtina Kosovo 2010 - Middle Length Program
Festivalul International de Film Nordic Olanda 2010 - Special Program
Festivalul International de Film Transilvania 2010 - Competitia Romaneasca de Scurtmetraj
Festivalul International de Film Documentarist Istanbul 2011
Festivalul de Film Romanesc de la New York 2010
Nominalizare pentru cel mai bun scurtmetraj - Premiile Industriei Cinematografice Romanesti-GOPO 2011
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