Friday, September 17, 2010, 7:15 p.m., Pre-screening Talk, 7:00 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium
525 South State Street, Ann Arbor 48109

Please join American Romanian Festival Executive Director Marian Tanau and Ramona Uritescu-Lombard, film scholar and Lecturer in the German and Comparative Literature departments at the University of Michigan, for a discussion before the film at 7:00 p.m. and Q&A after the film.

Film Screening

California Dreamin’
Nesfârsit, 2007, Cristian Nemescu, Cannes, Un Certain Regard, 155 min, R , English subtitles.

California Dreamin’ was Cristian Nemescus last film before his death in a car accident, California Dreamin’, winner of the prestigious Cannes award for Un Certain Regard in 2007, film is based on a true story: a NATO train transporting military equipment is stopped in the middle of nowhere by an overzealous chief of a Romanian train station. Set against the backdrop of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the film explores with humor and gritty realism the impact that the arrival of the American soldiers led by Captain Jones has on the small village community. A cinematic tour de force not to be missed!