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Edition 2019
Films
Festivals and Awards:
Official Selection – Cannes Film Festival 2019
Crew:
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu
DOP: Tudor Mircea
Production: 42Km Film, Komplizen Film, Les films du Worso, mk2
Screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu
DOP: Tudor Mircea
Production: 42Km Film, Komplizen Film, Les films du Worso, mk2
Cristi, a Romanian police officer who is a whistleblower for mafia, is going to La Gomera Island to learn an ancestral whistling language. Because he is under police surveillance in Romania, this coded language will allow him to continue to communicate with the mobsters to get Zsolt out of prison. Zsolt is the only one who knows where 30 million euros are hidden.
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Cast:
Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Augustí Villaronga -
Original Title:
La Gomera -
Country:
Romania, France, Germany, Sweden -
Year:
2019 - 97 min Subtitles PT
Festivals and Awards:
Official Selection – Cannes Film Festival 2019
Crew:
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu
DOP: Tudor Mircea
Production: 42Km Film, Komplizen Film, Les films du Worso, mk2
Screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu
DOP: Tudor Mircea
Production: 42Km Film, Komplizen Film, Les films du Worso, mk2
Director
Corneliu Porumboiu

Corneliu Porumboiu (Vaslui, 1975) is a prominent name in the Romanian contemporary cinema landscape. After winning the Caméra d’Or with 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), his following films confirmed his talent as a director and a storyteller. Marked by a certain realistic will and a strong political sense, Porumboiu’s cinema manages to explore Romania’s historical memory in a comical, nonsensical way.