Four top-level screenings for THE MAGICIAN, an animated short film by acclaimed Romanian film director Bogdan Muresanu, in the coming days:

• St Louis International Film Festival, Missouri, USA
• Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK
• Izmir International Short Film Festival, Turkey
• Centre Film Festival, Pennsylvania, USA

THE MAGICIAN, also known as Magicianul, had its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.

Since then, it has been selected for the world’s most important international film festivals. Including qualifying events for the Hollywood Oscars and the EFAs, European Film Awards.

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.

THE MAGICIAN is a coproduction between Romania, Croatia and France.

THE MAGICIAN is a project full of cultured details, according to our artistic director, Eduardo M. Escribano Solera.

In a few days, we will announce new successes for this impressive European production.

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