International festival of documentary films inaugurated in Moldovan capital

19:52 | 25.05.2017 Category: Culture

Chisinau, 25 May /MOLDPRES/ - The 15th issue of the International Documentary Film Festival Cronograf (FIFD Cronograf) was inaugurated at the Chisinau-based Odeon Cultural centre. The festival will be held on 25-31 May.

At a news conference today, the festival’s director, Virgil Margineanu, said that FIFD Cronograf would screen 77 films, of which 51 are part of the four competitive sections of the festival.

According to Margineanu, the films were selected from a record number of 700 movies from 82 countries and will be screened at the Principal Section, cadRO Section, Local productions Section and One LIKE for Documentary. The screenings will take place at the Odeon Cultural Centre. The Principal Section gathered 21 films, and the head of the jury at this section is Valeriu Andriuta, who is this year guest of the Cannes Festival along with the team of the movie Kortkaya/A Centre Creature, directed by Serghei Loznitsa.

A new event within the Cronograf festival, said the artistic director of the festival Leontina Vatamanu, is CRONOGRAF&Music – a symbiosis between film and music, offered to public under open sky on the pedestrian street Eugen Doga. Thus, during four evenings, on 26-29 May, eight local bands will perform on the stage of the pedestrian street, after which the event’s guests will be able to watch documentaries on musical topics and will discuss with the movies’ authors.

„CRONOGRAF has made a qualitative leap. The movies selected speak about new tendencies in the development of the cinematography. They are from the list of those which participated in prestigious international festivals. The festival is a school for cinema men, a space where they can find collaborations,” Vatamanu noted.

Attending the event, Deputy Culture Minister Igor Sarov stressed that Cronograf was one of the principal cultural events in Moldova, along with the festivals Martisor, Maria Biesu, Biennial of the Eugen Ionesco Theatre, etc.

The International Documentary Film Festival Cronograf is the biggest cinematographic event from Moldova and a benchmark one in Eastern Europe; it is organized by OWH Studio. In the 2016 issue, the festival attracted more than 4,000 film fans from Moldova and over 30 guests from abroad.

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor M. Jantovan)

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