INSPIRATION / PLICTIS SI INSPIRATIE

Igor Cobileanski, Moldova, 2007
Fiction, colour, 11'
Romanian with English subtitles

With

Valeriu Turcanu
Mihai Curagau
Sergiu Voloc
Lacrimioara the goose

Friday 11 April 2008
6.30 pm / Shorts
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Screened with

IN THE MORNING, BAHRTALO!, LIFE'S HARD, SASHA, GRISHA & ION

A car, a taxi, two vans and a motorcycle: the world is set in motion. City, town or countryside... everybody seems to be engaged in some sort of quest, looking for a hotel, a temporary shelter, a parking space, an electric cable, and - why not? - a poet willing to lend his talents to a cause which requires urgent action. Eastern European humour always travelled well, as demonstrated by our light-hearted shorts session.

Inspiration

“- These trains.... They go from East to West, from West to East, day and night, and none of them stops in our village. Why is that?”
“-Why should they? You'd want them to take everybody with them?”

Three characters in search of an author, Moldovan style.

Igor Cobileanski

Born in the Republic of Moldova, Cobileanski studied film in Romania and is now living and working in-between the two countries. His first significant film work (Dying for Madrid, 1998) captured in documentary form the tragic story of a Moldovan folk band who, in exchange for a dream trip to Madrid, agreed to give a series of concerts in Chernobyl in 1986, for volunteers working on the liquidation of the nuclear power plant. Following on that, Cobileanski started to forge his own brand of local humour which now makes him a favourite of Romanian audiences and foreign film festivals. His When the Lights Go Out has been a hit on Youtube. Cobileanski has just completed the feature-length black comedy Tache (2008), currently awaiting its theatrical release.

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