The third edition of the Pelicam Festival takes place in Tulcea between June 13 and 15 and brings movies directed by awarded international filmmakers in premiere for Romania, telling stories about close ties between the life of people and their land, from the Amazon rainforest to Lapland, reports Liter.Net.ro.
Braddock, America (2013) is the story of an American city, once of the major steel production centres. In the 70s and 80s, the industry collapsed, 90 percent of the people left, leaving whole districts with abandoned houses. Directors Jean-Luc Portron and Gabriella Kessler depict the life of some people who barely perceive any future among the ruins of the steel industry. Braddock will be screened in the presence of filmmaker Gabriella Kessler. The same category includes Costa da Morte (2013), a poetic documentary about “The Death Coast,” part of the north-western coast of Spain, legendary for the countless shipwrecks and sea storms. Filmmaker Lois Patiño depicts the amazing story of the people who tamed the places filled with tales.
Pelicam starts in Bucharest with an event at J’ai Bistrot on May 29, when you are invited to watch the movie that winning movie of 2013, North of the Sun (2012), created by Norwegians Inge Wegge (25 years) and Jorn Ranum (22), two surfers who take a break from the city life and their friends and go surfboarding on the freezing waves of an isolated beach in Norway, north of the sunrise point.
Filmmaker Cristi Puiu and multiple Olympic champion Ivan Patzaichin are two of the jury members at the feature film competition during the festival. One of the guests is American filmmaker Reuben Aaronson, whose movie, Amazon Gold, will screen in Tulcea, outside the competition. Pelicam International Film Festival is organized by Les Herbes Folles Association, with the main sponsorship from ApaNova Bucharest, with the support of BRD, the National Cinematography Center, the Romanian Cultural Institute. Institutional partners: the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the US Embassy, The Swiss Embassy, Goethe Institut and the French Institute in Bucharest.
