Weekend calendar: Les Films de Cannes, West Side Hallo Fest, Feline World Show in Bucharest, Iași International Literature Festival and more
One of fall’s most awaited film festivals kicks off in Bucharest, where the season of Halloween events has already started, alongside many concerts and exhibitions.<o:p></o:p>
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One of fall’s most awaited film festivals kicks off in Bucharest, where the season of Halloween events has already started, alongside many concerts and exhibitions.
In Bucharest:
Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest
October 24 - November 2
The festival showcasing productions awarded or selected at the Cannes film festival, returns this fall to Bucharest and four other cities in the country: Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, and Arad. Actress Emmanuelle Béart and directors Julia Ducournau and Sergeï Loznitsa are among the guests of the event. More details here.
National Theater Festival
Until October 26
Productions from all over Romania are presented at the event. More on the program here.
Art Safari
Until December 14
The event, held at Dacia-Romania Palace, encompasses five exhibitions exploring the work of Theodor Pallady, the story of George Enescu or Japanese design. Further info here.
Concerts @ George Enescu Philharmonic
October 23, 24
Sesto Quatrini conducts the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra for a program of works Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, and Ottorino Respighi. Pianist Nikolai Lugansky is the soloist.
Marilena Preda Sânc: Bodyscape 1982–1988
Until October 25
The show, focused on works the artist created in the 1980s, covers a large number of collages, photographs with interventions, and drawings that have never been shown before. More details here.
Flying Carpets - Thomas Ruff & Transylvania & Anatolia
Until February 28
The exhibition “reveals the collision between tradition and modernity, between local and global, the fusion of seemingly irreconcilable values, so relevant to our hybrid present.” More details
