Synopsis

Lecturer: Productions by Romanian Ada Solomon are shown at the world’s most prestigious film festivals, in Berlin as well as in Cannes, Locarno and Venice or at the Sundance Film Festival. In the meantime her productions have been awarded with over a hundred important prizes, such as the Golden Bear and the Heart of Sarajevo. She was recently successful in Berlin with Aferim!

Content: Based on a case study of Aferim!, the basic conditions and possible challenges as well as the highs and lows of a production will be discussed. Also on the menu: How to find good projects, how to work well with film directors, and why there is no guarantee that the next production is going to be easier than the previous one.

Screening: Aferim! (ROM/BUL/CZE 2015, Rumanian, Turkish, Romani, English with English subtitles, duration: 105 minutes), 08.10., 7p.m., Urania Kino.

Regular admission to the LET’S CEE Master Classes is 35€. Students and holders of respective cards  only pay 25€. The price for certain Master Classes also includes a ticket to the film of the respective lecturer (see further below in the text). It is not compulsory to watch the respective film for taking part in the Master Classes. The Master Classes offered in co-operation with Raindance Film Festival and Elliot Grove cost 25€ respectively. You can book all three Workshops for only 60€. For more details, please contact us via education1@letsceefilmfestival.com At this address you can also register for the Master Classes. All Master Classes are held in English (except the Master class with Tomasz Raczek) and last ca. 150 minutes, unless otherwise stated.

Guests

Ada Solomon

Ada Solomon
Producer Aferim!, Trading Germans
In Vienna: October 8-11