Egypt!!

The 12th edition of the Alexandria International Short Film Festival in Egypt is getting underway, where The Magician, by Bogdan Muresanu, has been officially selected for the Animation Competition

It is the umpteenth film festival qualifier for the Hollywood Oscars to select this co-production from Romania, France and Croatia.

The Magician had its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.
Since then, it has amassed an impressive list of selections on the international film festival circuit.

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 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.

Bogdan Muresanu is one of Europe’s most acclaimed filmmakers. He was an Oscar SHORTLISTED and the overall winner of the European Film Academy Award for his unforgettable film CADOUL DE CRACIUN.

Stay tuned. In a few days’ time, we’ll be announcing further successes for this masterpiece of European animation.

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