Each year the ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN LONDON offers, through the good offices of its organiser PROFUSION INTERNATIONAL, an award to students drawn from the Romanian diaspora in the United Kingdom. The qualifications are simple. The recipient should, permanently or temporarily, be resident in Britain, and he or she should be a student of the visual arts, especially in the field of cinema. Our practice is to leave applications open as long as possible, so there is still time to apply for the film festival in November 2016. A brief CV and a brief statement backing up your claim to the scholarship is all that is required. All communications should be addressed to Ms R Mitrica, Director, PROFUSION – mail@profusion.org.uk

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10 – 14 November 2016, Curzon Soho Cinema
(99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY)
www.rofilmfest.com 

TOGETHER AND APART is a phrase which may describe the relationship between two partners as they twist and twirl through the intimate movements of a dance. The phrase may also speak to the condition of the Romanian diaspora, divided by distance, united by history and family ties. Most powerfully, though, the phrase hints at the relationship between nationalities, you and me, separated
by time and space, but bound together by our fears and hopes for the future.

The Romanian Film Festival in London (RFF) features a glittering and stimulating array of titles. Very popular and talented actors Adrian Titieni, Alexandru Papadopol, Ana Ciontea and Vlad Ivanov will come from Bucharest in order to join us for the UK premieres of the latest Romanian films.

Thu 10 Nov - Opening Gala, 6.10pm, Screen 1, Curzon Soho
GRADUATION (d. Cristian Mungiu)
Followed by Q&A with lead actor Adrian Titieni, hosted by writer Ian Haydn Smith
Tickets: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/rff/graduation

Fri 11 Nov, 6.40pm, Screen 3, Curzon Soho
ILLEGITIMATE (d. Adrian Sitaru)
UK premiere followed by Q&A with lead actor Adrian Titieni, hosted by writer Ian Haydn Smith
Tickets: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/rff/illegitimate

Sat 12 Nov, 6.20pm, Screen 3, Curzon Soho
DOGS (d. Bogdan Mirica)
UK premiere followed by Q&A with lead actor Vlad Ivanov, hosted by screen writer Mike Phillips
Tickets: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/rff/dogs

Sun 13 Nov, 3.20pm, Screen 3, Curzon Soho
STUFF AND DOUGH (d. Cristi Puiu)
Followed by Q&A with lead actor Alexandru Papadopol, hosted by writer Ian Haydn Smith
Tickets: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/rff/stuffanddough

Sun 13 Nov, 6.20pm, Screen 3, Curzon Soho
BACK HOME (d. Andrei Cohn)
UK premiere followed by Q&A with lead actor Alexandru Papadopol, hosted by writer Ian Haydn Smith
Tickets: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/rff/backhome

Mon 14 Nov – Closing Gala, 7.00pm, Screen 1, Curzon Soho
SIERANEVADA (d. Cristi Puiu)
UK premiere followed by Q&A with lead actress Ana Ciontea, hosted by writer Ian Haydn Smith
Tickets: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/rff/sieranervada
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All films are in Romanian with English subtitles.
Tickets: www.curzoncinemas.com/rff ; Box Office: 0330 500 1331
Curzon Cinemas is London’s leading arthouse cinema chain with six venues across the capital.
Address: 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY; Nearest tube: Leicester Square
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The Romanian Film Festival in London is a not-for-profit enterprise, functioning with the help of grants and sponsorship from friends and supporters. RFF is organised by Profusion International Creative Consultancy (www.profusion.org.uk), in partnership with The National Centre of Cinematography in Romania and Curzon Cinemas. Supported by The Department for Romanians Abroad (DPRRP).
Acest proiect este realizat cu sprijinul Ministerului Afacerilor Externe – Departamentul Politici pentru Relaţia cu Românii de Pretutindeni.
Special thanks: ROMANi-ONLiNE.co.uk, Albinuta.co.uk, GHiDUL ROMANESC, The Romanian Filmmakers Union (UCIN), Traduceri Autorizate, Profusion Romania
Festival Team: Ramona Mitrica – festival director, Mike Phillips – festival consultant, Alina Salcudeanu – international advisor, Dan Mitrica – webmaster, Laura Lazar – advertising, Eugen Androne – logistics, Mihai Risnoveanu, Kwesi Phillips – media

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Watch Profusion Books co-director and translator, author Mike Phillips on BBC Four, Mon 17 Oct 2016 at 21:00

Mike Phillips is best known for his crime fiction, including four novels featuring black journalist Sam Dean: Blood Rights (1989), which was adapted for BBC television, The Late Candidate (1990), winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award, Point of Darkness (1994) and An Image to Die For (1995). Subsequent novels are The Dancing Face (1998), A Shadow of Myself (2000) and The Name You Once Gave Me (2006). Non fiction works are Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain (1998), and London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (2001). Recently he has written, translated and published a number of East European works.

He explores, without reserve, over more than 70 years, its clashes of nationalisms, its cruelty and militaristic savagery, its loves and romantic fantasies, its peasant transformations, its desperate longing for European significance, and much, much more. All this is seen through the eyes of individuals, naïve and sophisticated, ignorant and learned, spiritually pure and downright evil. (Mike Phillips - Introduction)

ISBN-13: 978-0956867643

Available in paperback, as well as Kindle e-book.

BBC Four, Mon 17 Oct 2016 at 21:00

Andrew Marr investigates detective fiction, and reveals how it works.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p040pvpp

Mike Phillips is best known for his crime fiction, including four novels featuring black journalist Sam Dean: Blood Rights (1989), which was adapted for BBC television, The Late Candidate (1990), winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award, Point of Darkness (1994) and An Image to Die For (1995). Subsequent novels are The Dancing Face (1998), A Shadow of Myself (2000) and The Name You Once Gave Me (2006). Non fiction works are Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain (1998), and London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (2001). Recently he has written, translated and published a number of East European works.