Weekend calendar: French Film Festival, Echoes of Ji.hlava, Bookfest Timișoara and more
French feature films, Czech documentaries, and festivals marking the Feast of Annunciation are on in Bucharest, while Iași hosts a festival focused on Italian cinema and Timișoara a book fair.<o:p></o:p>
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French feature films, Czech documentaries, and festivals marking the Feast of Annunciation are on in Bucharest, while Iași hosts a festival focused on Italian cinema and Timișoara a book fair.
In Bucharest:
French Film Festival
March 21 – March 31
This is the 28th edition of the event celebrating French cinema and the theme this year is Vertiges. In times marked by continuous acceleration, change, and lack of balance, the public is invited to reflect on what can change, if at all, and what cinema can tell about change. Twenty-eight films will be screened at Elvire Popesco Cinema. The program is available here.
Echoes of Ji.hlava
Until March 28
The Czech Center in Bucharest hosts the program of documentary film screenings Echoes of Ji.hlava, where the public can see four productions that were selected for the latest edition of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. Workshops and Q&As with the directors are also part of the program. Entry is free. More details here.
Art Safari
March 8 – July 28
This season of Art Safari brings to the spotlight masters of Romanian art such as Eustațiu Stoenescu, Nicolae Grigorescu, Nicolae Tonitza, Ștefan Luchian, and Corneliu Baba. Five exhibitions are part of the program of the event which takes place at the Dacia-Romania Palace in Bucharest’s Old Town. Further details on each exhibition and their schedule here.
George Enescu Philharmonic concerts
March 21, 22
Leonard Slatkin conducts the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in a program of works by Ștefan Zorzor, Tchaikovsky, and Berlioz. Austrian cellist Kian Soltani is the soloist. Further details here.
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