Thrilled to announce that The Magician, directed by Bogdan Muresanu, is in the OFFICIAL SELECTION of the 23rd IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria!
Umpteenth festival eligible for the Hollywood Oscars which has selected this magnificent animation film and will held at the Palace of Culture in the town of Pernik, Bulgaria from June 25th to 28th, 2026.
The Magician had its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.
Since then, it has been screened at countless film festivals around the world, including a dozen film events that qualify for the Hollywood Oscars and the EFA European Film Awards.
The Magician is the latest film from the internationally acclaimed Bogdan Muresanu. His previous short film, CADOUL DE CRĂCIUN, was a resounding success, having been a FINALIST at the Oscars and the WINNER of the European Film Academy Award.
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.
“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, also known as Magicianul, is a co-production between Romania, France and Croatia.
Stay tuned. We’ll be announcing further successes for this major European production very soon.
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