Corneliu Porumboiu, a renowned Romanian director, has announced plans to begin filming his latest project, marking six years since his last film. He shared this news during an interview at the Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, where a retrospective of his work is currently being showcased.
Porumboiu’s fresh endeavor will be filmed in French, right here in France, where the filmmaker currently resides. At present, he is busy with casting calls and plans to initiate production in September, although the project still needs full funding. The locations for the film have been selected near his home in Biarritz, France.
The principal filmmakers for this project are MK2 Films from France, who served as the international sales agent in the previous movie “The Whistlers,” and Lumen, a company established last year by Juliette Schrameck, a former managing director of MK2 Films. However, Porumboiu’s production company, 42 Km Film, is not involved with this project, as it currently appears to be inactive, according to him.
Though Porumboiu hasn’t explicitly named it, the project is often referred to as “The Costume.” He characterizes it as an exciting journey and hints that it will diverge significantly from his previous works, while keeping the storyline a secret.
The movie titled “The Whistlers,” released in 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival’s competition, was predominantly filmed on La Gomera Island in the Canaries. It was captured using a blend of Romanian, English, and an ancient whistling dialect.
All of his past works in fiction have been filmed in Romania, using the Romanian language, including “12:08 East of Bucharest,” which won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 2006, “Police, Adjective,” which was awarded the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes in 2009, “When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism,” that debuted in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2013, and “The Treasure,” which made its premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2015, receiving the section’s A Certain Talent Prize.
He’s made two full-length documentaries, “The Second Game” in 2014 and “Infinite Football” in 2018. Both of these films had their debut at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Visions du Réel runs April 4-13.
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2025-04-07 13:50