Thrilled to announce that the animation short film THE MAGICIAN, by Bogdan Muresanu, is an Official Selection at Aesthetica Short Film Festival. A BAFTA Qualifying Film Festival.

THE MAGICIAN aka MAGICIANUL will compete for six awards:

• Best of Festival
• Best Animation
• Best Director
• Best Screenplay
• Best Cinematography
• Best Edition

THE MAGICIAN is a coproduction between Romania, France and Croatia premiered at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival this Summer.

In recent weeks, he has participated in other qualifying festivals for the Hollywood Oscars. Such as the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival, India; or the HollyShorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA.

In a few days, we will announce new festivals for this new hit directed by the winner of the European Film Academy Award and Oscar FINALIST with the unforgettable CADOUL DE CRACIUN.

Stay tuned.

Synopsis:

Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.

Director’s Statement:

“I wanted to revive a bygone world and the technique of animation allowed me to recreate, from stills, the settings in which the action of the movie takes place, but I also wanted to get to the essence of the story. And here I think animation was a medium that suited my intention: not to illustrate the glory of a bygone world, through the fate of a once exuberant and cosmopolitan port, now reduced to the dimensions of a forgotten small town, but to represent the substance of the story I wrote many years ago,” says Bogdan Mureșanu.
“Film, especially animated film, which is supposed to be a total visual invention, has to produce an image that, at best, then hangs on the walls of those ‘dark corridors’ in the viewer’s mind.”, adds the director.

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