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The Whistlers

Original name: La Gomera
English name: The Whistlers
Year: 2019
Run time: 97’
Language: Romanian, English
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Romania, France, Germany
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Producer: Marcela Ursu, Patricia Poienaru, Sylvie Pialat, Maren Ade
Cast: VladIvanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazar
Screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu
Cinematographer: Tudor Mircea
Editor: Roxana Szel
Sound Designer: Gustaf Forsberg
Music Composer: Evgueni Galperine
Costume Designer: Dana Paparuz
Production Designer: SimonaPaduretu
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Festivals:

• Cannes FF 2019
• Toronto IFF 2019
• BFI London FF 2019
• MAMI Mumbai FF 2019
• Chicago IFF 2019

Selected Filmography:

• 2019 The Whistlers
• 2018 Infinite Football
• 2009 Police, Adjective
• 2006 12:08 East of Bucharest

Director’s Biography:

Corneliu Porumboiu was born in 1975 in Vaslui. In 2003, the two short films he directed drew international attention: A Trip to the City (Cinéfondation’s second prize in 2004), followed by Liviu’s Dream. In his first feature film, 12:08 East of Bucharest, Porumboiu offers a very humorous view of Romania’s 1989 revolution. The film was presented in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2006 and won the Caméra d’Or. HisPolice, Adjective, selected for Un Certain Regard in 2009 (Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize).

Synopsis:

Cristi, a Romanian police officer who is a whistle blower for mafia, is going to La Gomera Island to learn an ancestral whistling language. In Romania he is under police surveillance and by using this coded language he will continue to communicate with the mobsters to get Zsolt out of prison. Zsolt is the only one who knows where 30 millions of euros are hidden.