Macey and Savanna may not have much. But they’ve got the perfect plan. With a ramshackle café teeter-tottering on the brink of extinction and their lives going nowhere fast, the two sisters conspire to win over their terminally ill Aunt Hilda - the family’s overbearing, curmudgeonly matriarch - in the hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her vast estate. But as Macey and Savanna soon discover, there may be other relatives who have the exact same idea.

Directed by Dean Craig, The Estate stars Toni Collette, Anna Faris, Kathleen Turner, David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston and Keyla Monterroso Mejia.

“I remember the first time reading it, crying with laughter – it was wet your pants funny,” says Toni Collette, who was the first cast member to  join The Estate.

What kept her in stitches during the course of filming in New Orleans, however, was Craig’s A-list ensemble – “the most talented, beautiful, hilarious group of people,” and the unexpected alchemy which ensued (fostered by the director’s openness to improvisation), that took things to the next level. “They’re all brilliant in their own right,” says Collette. “But collectively, something just seemed to magically happen.”

“Often, I’d be on the brink of forgetting my line, because I would be watching David Duchovny do something absolutely inappropriate and hysterical. We have Toni who is serenely thoughtful and beautiful. Rosemarie [DeWitt] and Ron [Livingston] playing James and Beatrice, who are incredibly subtle performers. And then Kathleen Turner who I had the honor of working with on Mom… It was just what I hoped for, which was a learning experience where I got to play the most brazen character - and certainly the most childish character - I’ve played yet.” says Faris.

The Estate is now playing in cinemas, distributed by Prorom and Ro Image.

The program of events scheduled at Cinema Victoria includes film screenings, a reading show and discussions with specialists, psychoanalysts, therapists.

The special guests of the edition are: Irina-Margareta Nistor (cine-interpreter & director of the festival), Andrea Sabbadini (psychoanalyst, founder of the festival with London origins), Vlad Ivanov (actor), Ilinca Bălaș (psychologist), Ștefan Feldmann (psychologist), alongside other personalities in the field of cinematography and psychoanalysis.

On Friday, October 28, 2022, starting at 19:00, the film The King's Speech (2010, directed by: Tom Hooper), will open the festival.

Psychoanalyzed by Andrea Sabbadini and cine-interpreted by Irina-Margareta Nistor (plus a surprise psychoanalysis from 2009, with a famous Romanian psychologist, 20 min).

In this hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure, with her laundromat teetering on the brink of failure and her marriage on the rocks, overworked Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) struggles to cope with everything. And, as if facing a gloomy midlife crisis wasn't enough, now Evelyn has to save the world when an inexplicable multiverse rift makes her explore parallel realities!

Directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Everything Everywhere All At Once will be screened Thursday, October 13, 21:00 at Cinema Astra.

Buy tickets here: https://biletebrasov.ro/eveniment/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-sua-2022/

Medieval tells the story of the Czech warlord Jan Žižka (approx.1360–1424), who led the military wing of the followers of the religious thinker and reformer of the Catholic Church Jan Hus, the so-called Hussites. Žižka is considered a very important figure in Czech history and Czech statehood.

After eight years of preparation, Jan Žižka (Medieval) began filming on 17 September 2018 and the last day of shooting was on 8 December 2018.

“Fifty-six days of shooting feels like forever. On the very first day we had three hundred people on set. We had a lot of very action-packed scenes,” says Petr Jákl, who wrote the script, directed and produced the film.

The cast: Ben Foster, Sophie Lowe, Matthew Goode, Til Schweiger, Michael Caine, Vinzenz Kiefer, Werner Daehn, William Moseley, Sophie Lowe, Karel Roden, Ondřej Vetchý, Marek Vašut, Jan Budař, Ben Cristovao and Romana Jákl Vítová.

Petr Jákl has already experienced this type of work in big foreign projects, including in the films Bad Company, Alien vs. Predator, and the historical series Borgia, but also as an actor and stuntman.

Prorom and Ro Image will release Medieval in Romanian cinemas on October, 7, 2022.

The newest chapter in the story of Tessa and Hardin was watched by 113,469 viewers, becoming the most watched After movie in Romania.

Here are the numbers of the After series in Romania so far:

2019 | After: 112,664 viewers | 2,081,414 lei

2020 | After We Collided: 75,791 viewers | 1,457,818 lei

2021 | After We Fell: 95,278 viewers | 1,876,865 lei

2022 | After Ever Happy: 113,469 viewers | 2,048,431 lei (in the first 6 weeks, this movie is still playing in cinemas)

Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is content with life and comes at the world with a healthy scepticism. Despite this she encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

This is a problem because she is a scholar of narrative and knows all the cautionary tales about wishes gone wrong. He pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.

Oscar-winning filmmaker George Miller first encountered Alithea and the Djinn when he read British author A.S. Byatt’s 1994 short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye in the late 1990s.

“It’s a story that seemed to probe many of the mysteries and paradoxes of life, and so succinctly” Miller recalls. “Once read it stayed with me, as some stories tend to do… then, one day it occurred to me that it should be a film.”

“It felt unique, something that you couldn’t quite fit into any genre and it ticked one very important box - there must be a whole lot more to it than meets the eye. There are stories within stories, a little like One Thousand and One Nights” says Miller.

Idris Elba: “It is an absolute postcard to the art of storytelling. It’s an unconventional film but has a very honest focus. The point is that stories are really important to humankind”.    

Prorom and Ro Image will release Three Thousand Years of Longing in Romanian cinemas on September, 2, 2022.