Thrilled to announce that THE MAGICIAN, by Bogdan Muresanu, has been selected for this year’s TAF; Thessaloniki Animation Festival, Greece. A BAFTA Qualifying Film Festival.

It will take place on October 16-19 in the wonderful Thessaloniki.

THE MAGICIAN is the new short film by the extraordinary Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Muresanu, acclaimed for his previous short film CADOUL DE CRACIUN, which swept the awards season, winning the European Film Academy Award and being a FINALIST at the Hollywood Oscars.

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

THE MAGICIAN is one of the most successful animated short films of the season, having been selected for countless Oscar-qualifying festivals since its release two months ago.

In a few days, we will announce more successes for this magnificent European production.

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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