{"id":12725,"date":"2026-10-29T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12725"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:00:51","slug":"romanian-film-festival-uk-to-open-with-florin-serbans-pardo-doro-winning-you-dont-belong-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12725","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Film Festival UK to open with Florin \u0218erban\u2019s Pardo d’oro-winning You Don\u2019t Belong Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second edition of the Romanian Film Festival UK<\/em> (#RFF26UK) will run a program ranging from Florin \u0218erban\u2019s You Don\u2019t Belong Here<\/em>, the winner of this year\u2019s Pardo d’oro\/ Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival to a 20th-anniversary screening of a Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or classic.<\/p>\n

Running from November 28 – November 29 in Colchester and December 2- December 7 in London, the festival will host six Romanian directors in London to present their films and take part in Q&As with the public: Florin \u0218erban, Paul Negoescu, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Tudor Giurgiu.<\/p>\n

Following three preview screenings in Colchester and an Opening Gala Reception on December 1 at the Ra\u021biu Family Charitable Foundation, the festival will open to the public in London on December 2 with the UK premiere of You Don\u2019t Belong Here<\/em>, which also earned Adrian V\u0103ncic\u0103 the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor. \u0218erban, whose debut <\/em> If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle won the Silver Bear at the 2010 Berlinale, returns with a father-and-son drama where a small-town surgeon and single father discovers his son has been living a life he knew nothing about. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.<\/p>\n

December 3 will see the UK premiere of Tudor Cristian Jurgiu\u2019s On Our Own<\/em>, winner of the CICAE Art Cinema Award in the Berlinale Forum. The film follows the lives of the chosen family fourteen-year-old Flavia has gathered around her as she grows up largely on her own while her parents work in Italy. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Tudor Cristian Jurgiu.<\/p>\n

Tudor Giurgiu\u2019s 3 Days in September<\/em> will be screened on December 4. The darkly funny romantic comedy filmed in a single, uninterrupted 65-minute take on Romania\u2019s Black Sea coast had its world premiere in the Limelight section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Director Tudor Giurgiu returns to the festival for a Q&A, alongside actor Andreea Vasile.<\/p>\n

The Romanian Canon strand of the event begins on December 5 with the 20th-anniversary screening of Corneliu Porumboiu\u2019s 12:08 East of Bucharest<\/em>, winner of the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or at the 2006 edition of the Cannes Festival and one of the defining films of the Romanian New Wave, followed by a Q&A with Corneliu Porumboiu.<\/p>\n

December 6 brings a family matinee of Paul Negoescu\u2019s Atlas of the Universe<\/em>, awarded a Special Mention in Generation Kplus at the Berlinale, followed by a Q&A with the director. In the evening, the classic strand continues with a screening of Lucian Pintilie\u2019s <\/em> Reconstruction, selected for the Directors\u2019 Fortnight at Cannes in 1970, introduced by Corneliu Porumboiu.<\/p>\n

The festival will close on December 7 with Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu\u2019s Transit Times<\/em>, a portrait of a Chi\u0219in\u0103u family fighting to stay afloat in the turbulent 1990s. The film is co-produced by Cristian Mungiu\u2019s Mobra Films and had its world premiere in the CineCoPro Competition at Filmfest M\u00fcnchen 2026. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu and DoP Javier Palicio.<\/p>\n

The festival is organized by festival director Manuela R. Morar, a Romanian-British film and TV marketing professional, and artistic director Alexandru Gherman, a Romanian-American film and theatre director.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second edition of the Romanian Film Festival UK (#RFF26UK) will run a program ranging from Florin \u0218erban\u2019s You Don\u2019t Belong Here, the winner of this year\u2019s Pardo d’oro\/ Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival to a 20th-anniversary screening of a Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or classic. Running from November 28 – November 29 in Colchester and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}