MAGICIANUL

Sulina, 1910. The first power plant in this Romanian port city is inaugurated. Amid the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a magician from another era, attempts to play his final card.

Bogdan Muresanu

Bogdan Mureșanu is the writer, director and producer of the feature film The New Year That Never Came, nominated last year at the European Film Awards (European Discovery 2024 – Prix FIPRESCI) and winner of 23 international awards including the Best Film Award in the Orizzonti section and the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film (Venice International Film Festival). He debuted as a screenwriter in 2008; then he wrote and directed several short films. The short film The Christmas Present, released in 2018, won the European Film Academy Award (2019), had over 200 festival selections and 72 awards, and was shortlisted for Oscar nominations.