Sunday 11 April 19.00 – Cine Hoyts Abasto

Thursday 15 April 15.30 – Malba Cine

Sunday 18 April 13.00 – Cine Arteplex Caballito

This selection follows OXYGEN’s world premiere in TIGER AWARDS SHORT FILM COMPETITION of ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010.

BAFICI is one of the most prominent film festivals in the world and the most prestigious event for the independent cinema in Latin America.

BAFICI is renowned as an essential means of promotion for the independent film output, where the most innovative, daring and uncompromising films from around the world can be seen.

SYNOPSIS

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 reenactment 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. ONOn the border between fiction, documentary and experiment, blending beautifully shot fiction and strange archive footage, in visuals and sounds of haunting quality, the film depicts an emotional landscape, a man’s inner journey towards a healing hereafter.

CREATIVE TEAM

Cast: Cezar Antal

Adriana Mocca

Gabriel Spahiu

Rudy Rosenfeld

Cinematographer: Marius Iacob

Editor/Sound designer: Tudor Petre

Set/Costume designer: Andrada Chiriac

Director/Scriptwriter: Adina Pintilie

Music: Cristi Lolea/ Marius Galea

Producator: Constantin Popescu

ADINA PINTILIE, born in 1980, has recently graduated the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest, Romania.

Still as student, she made her debut medium length DON’T GET ME WRONG(produced by ARISTOTELES WORKSHOP, with support of ARTE FRANCE, ROMANIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION, TRANSILVANIA FILM, TOTAL PROFESSIONAL RECORDS, ABIS STUDIO, ROMANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE, NATIONAL CENTRE OF CINEMA), world premiered in LOCARNO 2007 – Filmmakers of the Present Competition, included in IDFA 2007 – BEST OF FESTS selection, awarded GOLDEN DOVE BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD at DOK LEIPZIG 2007, BEST WOMAN DIRECTOR  AWARD at FICCO MEXICO 2008 and selected/awarded in 50 international film festivals like: THESSALONIKI, MONTPELLIER, TRIESTE, NAMUR, DOCUMENTA MADRID, MUNCHEN, MOSCOW,SARAJEVO, SOUTH BY SOUTH EAST, FULL FRAME USA, INDIELISBOA, WARSZAW, KRAKOW etc.

ADINA PINTILIE also made 6 short films that had been screened/ awarded in a large number of film festivals, both national and international. Her last short, SANDPIT#186, was premiered in LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, AUTHOR’S SHORTS section and won the RUNNER UP AWARD in MIAMI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 and SPECIAL MENTION in TRIESTE ALPE ADRIA 2009.

ADINA PINTILIE’s first feature length project, TOUCH ME NOT,is presently developed in BINGER FILMLAB AMSTERDAM, one of the most prestigious international feature-film development centers, an official partner of Cinefondation residence in Paris, Sundance Film Institute and its Labs in the USA and the Nipkow Program in Berlin, in the work of supporting emerging talents.