Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Visions du Réel >> 2025 >> Corneliu Porumboiu - Special Guest

Visions du Réel 2025

View other Visions du Réel Films by strand: Burning Lights Competition , Cláudia Varejão - Atelier , Doc Alliance Selection , Highlights , International Feature Film Competition , International Medium Length & Short Film Competition , Raoul Peck - Guest Of Honour , Special Screenings , Wide Angle

The Whistlers The Whistlers
The Whistlers and When Evening Falls On Bucharest, Or Metabolism
12:08, East of Bucharest (A Fost Sau N-a Fost?, 12:08 Bucharest) (Country: Romania; Year: 2006; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru,)
Three men search for the truth about the Romanian Revolution - and has anything really changed?
Full Review
Infinite Football (Country: Romania; Year: 2018; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Laurentiu Ginghina, Corneliu Porumboiu, Laurentiu Ginghina, Corneliu Porumboiu)
Documentary about ex-footballer Laurentiu Ginghina's opinions on the game.
Full Review
Police Adjective (Politist, adj) (Country: Romania; Year: 2009; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea, Cosmin Selesi, George Remes, Dan Cogalniceanu, Serban Georgevici, Costi Dita, Alexandru Sabadac, Anca Diaconu, Radu Costin, Viorel Nebunu, Emanoela Tigla)
A young policeman crosses swords with his supervisor when he hesitates to turn in a teen caught with drugs.
Full Review
The Second Game (Al doilea joc) (Country: Romania; Year: 2014; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Adrian Porumboiu, Corneliu Porumboiu)
The director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time.
The Treasure (Comoara) (Country: Romania; Year: 2015; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Radu Banzaru, Toma Cuzin, Florin Kevorkian, Dan Chiriac, Iulia Ciochina)
Two men go on a quest for fortune.
12:08, East of Bucharest 12:08, East of Bucharest
12:08, East of Bucharest and Police Adjective
When Evening Falls On Bucharest, Or Metabolism (Când Se Lasa Seara Peste Bucuresti Sau Metabolism) (Country: Romania, France; Year: 2013; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Bogdan Dumitrache, Diana Avramut, Mihaela Sirbu, Alexandru Papadopol )
A director and his leading actress converse off set about the difficulty of capturing reality.
Full Review
The Whistlers (La Gomera, The Passenger) (Country: Romania, France, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu; Stars: Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazar)
Film noir sees a corrupt cop learn a whistling language to beat detection while trying to double-cross the mob.
Full Review
News

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground

More news and features

Playing Now
Festival Image

Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:

DOC NYC
New York's celebration of factual film

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Baltic film festival

French Film Festival
The UK's longest running celebration of Francophone cinema

Leeds International Film Festival

Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Celebration of world cinema

In the Archive
Competition Picture


Archive of festival coverage.

Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.

Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.