Romanian film is favorite as Cannes nears end
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Several critics are tipping a  hard-hitting Romanian picture to walk away with the coveted  Palme d&#39;Or at Sunday&#39;s Cannes Film Festival awards although  most say this year&#39;s race is tough to call.
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Sundance and Cannes have noted film festivals. Now Kearney is joining in.
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BUCHAREST - Romanians went to the polls on Sunday for a general election and the first round of a presidential vote, marking the end of the era of Ion Iliescu in the former Soviet state.
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When director Pedro Almodovar  was named hot favorite to triumph at the Cannes Film Festival  in 2006, he called it a curse after he failed to win.
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The latest social-realism drama to emerge from Romania's New Wave is about a women seeking an illegal abortion during the CeauÅescu regime.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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One film has an oblique ending that's left some viewers dissatisfied and others floored by its profundity. The other features a slowly developing plot and a brutal, operatically violent finale.
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BUCHAREST, Jun 22 (IPS) - A Romanian triumph at the Cannes film festival this  year has revived painful memories for thousands of women.
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Romania&#39;s former communists looked likely to retain power last night when exit polls put them comfortably ahead in elections for both parliament and president.
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Based on the best seller of the same title by Fernando Morais, 'Olga' has become one of the most popular films of the year in Brazil.
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The climax of the Cannes Film Festival looms, with the jury set to annouce this year's winner of the Palme d'Or.
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Individuals struggling with death and enormous moral questions dominated the story lines of films shown in the world's leading movie-industry fair, as the 60th annual Cannes Film Festival was closed.
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Campaigning ended ahead of the weekend for the first round of Romanian presidential elections that will choose the head of state to lead the former communist state into the European Union.
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BUCHAREST  - Romanians rang the end of an era as they voted for a president to succeed Ion Iliescu and lead the former communist country into the European Union.
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Cristian Mungiu, the first Romanian to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, says his country's recent movie output helped him win the award.
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Quentin Tarantino is cheered by journalists at the Cannes Film Festival for his new movie Death Proof.
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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - Exit polls show no clear victor in Romania&#39;s presidential election Sunday, making it likely that the two front-runners will compete in a runoff vote next month.