Aferim!

Romanian film director and screenwriter Radu Jude will be honoured at the La Rochelle Cinema (FEMA)Festival, which will take place June 25-July 4. At the 49th edition of the event in France, Jude will be honoured alongside French filmmaker Xavier Beauvois, Lebanese filmmakers Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and French composer Gabriel Yared.

Feature film ''Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc), by Radu Jude, a Romania-Luxembourg-Croatia-Czech Republic co-production, has been awarded the Golden Bear for Best Picture at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, held online March 1-5.

The newest feature-film signed by director Radu Jude, "Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc" was included in the final competition of the 71st edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. According to a press release sent by RollerCoaster sent to AGERPRES, the movie will have its world premiere at the Berlinale.

The Astor movie theater will be hosting screenings during the afternoons through November, with two different films each week - most of which have premiered in Greece.

Novinite is offering an English-language version of an interview with the Bulgarian co-producer of Aferim!, a movie awarded with a Silver Bear in Berlin in 2015.

The films "Aferim!" directed by Radu Jude; "Despre oameni si melci" (Of Snails and Men) by Tudor Giurgiu and "Dupa dealuri" (Over the Hills) by Cristian Mungiu are some of the films that have been specially adjusted to be projected in the first edition of Romania's National Film Festival for the Visually Impaired, May 15-19.

Photo credit: (c) Vlad STAVRICA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

The feature Aferim!, directed by Radu Jude, was designated the great winner of the IndieLisboa International Film Festival.

Film director Radu Jude
Photo credit: (c) Sorin LUPSA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

I believe that this film would have functioned pretty much of the same manner if we did it as a colour or sepia film, instead of making it black&white, film director Radu Jude said after the first premiere dedicated to the critics and media of his "Aferim!" film, for which he received the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.

Radu Jude won the award for his historical drama "Aferim!", the story of the hunt for a runaway Roma slave in the 19th century.

The film highlights the cruelty and deep-rooted prejudices that were rife at the time, when people from Romania's Roma minority were kept as slaves by monasteries and local overlords.

Director Radu Jude received the Silver Bear for "Aferim!", at the Berlinale 2015 Film Festival, on Saturday evening.

Photo: (c) Luo Huanhuan / Xinhua Flux

"If I knew I would win such a prize, I would have been more serious when shooting it," Radu Jude said on the Berlinale stage.