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Gabriel Achim s film ‘Snowing Darkness’ had its world premiere in the ‘Rebels With A Cause’ competition selection at the 25th edition of PÖFF – Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, which took place at the end of November 2021. The festival, whose first edition was held in 1997 in the Estonian capital, is one of the most important cinematographic events in Europe, with one of the most visible competition sections in the region. ‘Snowing Darkness’ is produced by Mandragora, and its release in cinema halls in Romania is scheduled for the first part of the year.
We talked to Gabriel Achim about the complicated birth process of his third feature film ‘Snowing Darkness’: “Unfortunately, we are living in challenging times that should make us turn to the essentials, help us value time more, and seek quality more. But this has not happened, on the contrary, there has been a dilution of values, and the arts seem to become more and more useless, because peopl
Gabriel Achim is currently in late post-production with his third feature,
Snowing Darkness. The exclusively Romanian project is being produced by
Anca Puiu through Mandragora and co-produced by Iadasarecasa.
The screenplay, written by Achim and
Cosmin Manolache, follows Teo (
Bogdan Dumitrache), a director who is immersed in rehearsals for his new feature centring on the personal turmoil he has suffered, caused by the death of his daughter. As the main story unfolds, strange and unsettling frame stories arise, which teeter between fiction and real life. The more the performance tries to disguise real life, the more it is disrupted by life’s unpredictable course, prompting a series of ambiguous, unbearable and absurd events.