There was a producer who first had this idea together with Mircea, and they asked me to do the program since I had knowledge of Balkan cinema and some connections.

He wanted to organize several events there concerts, seminars and a film festival. Mircea Dinescu bought this place with old buildings by the river Danube, restored them and founded the Cultural Port of Cetate. Since 1995 he has collaborated with film criticism magazines in Romania, USA, Great Britain, Moldova, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary, Russia and Bulgaria.Ĭould you tell me about the origins and aims of the Divan Film Festival? Why film and food in the Balkans? Romanian and Balkan Cinema” (2008, 2011 in Romanian and English, awarded with Prize of the Romanian Film Critics Association).

He is also the author of four books on cinema: “A Short History of Romanian Cinema” (2005, 2011, in Romanian and English), “Manakia Bros or the Image of the Balkans” (2005, 2009 in Romanian and English) and “Orient Express. We met with Marian to speak to him about the state of Balkan cinema, film festivals in the region and “Balkanism” in general.Marian Ţuţui is a film historian and researcher, currently teaching at Bucharest University and a former head archivist at the Romanian Film Archive. W e interviewed Marian Ţuţui, artistic director of the Divanul Degustătorilor de Film şi Artă Culinară / Divan Film Festival, which takes place each year at the end of August in Cetate, Romania and is now in its fifth edition.

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