A short take on what allegedly was the beginning of cinema - The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, the first film by the Lumiere Brothers. This time the train arrives in New York and the film-maker plays with the expectations of an audience which is 100 years older ... and hopefully more film-literate than the one of the original film.

Awards

Cine Rail International Film Festival - Paris, France
Washington DC Underground Film Festival

Bogdan Apetri

Bogdan Apetri studied Law in Romania, then Filmmaking and Photography at Columbia University. Currently based in New York, he works between Romania and the United States. His filmography includes Crossing (2003), awarded in Morbegno, Italy, A Very Small Trilogy of Loneliness (2006) and The Last Day of December (2006, Jury Prize, Brooklyn Film Festival). The Arrival of the Train was shot in New York as part of Apetri's curriculum at Columbia.