Andrei Cretulescu's short film 'Ramona' wins Canal+ Award in Cannes

The short film 'Ramona' by Andrei Cretulescu is the winner of the Canal+ Award of the Semaine de la Critique (Critics' Week) in Cannes, the representatives of the movie informed AGERPRES.

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The Canal+ Award goes to a single short or medium-length motion picture in the critics' section parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The French premium cable television channel will broadcast the winning film.

'Ramona', a violent, stylized film with no dialogue is the third in Cretulescu's short-film trilogy opened with 'Bad Penny' (2013) and continued with 'Kowalski' (2014). The casting is the same for the three movies ? Rodica Lazar, Dorian Boguta, Andi Vasluianu and Serban Pavlu, plus Ana Ularu for 'Ramona'. It is 100 percent independent, produced by Andrei Cretulescu (Kinosseur), Radu Stancu (deFilm) and Claudiu Mitcu (We Are Basca), with Dan Chisu (DaKino) and Eugen Kelemen (Digital Cube) as co-producers.

Director Andrei Cretulescu's next film, 'Seven Months Later', is currently in the post-production phase. Pre-production has started for his first feature film, 'Charlton Heston', for which shooting should start this autumn.AGERPRES