26/03/2012 - Tyrannosaur, Everybody in Our Family and Guilty among the festival's winners

Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur [+see also:
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The Best Director award went to Radu Jude for his second feature, Everybody in Our Family [+see also:
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Submarine [+see also:
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Bucharest IFF is only one of numerous film-related events organized in Bucharest this spring. One World Romania, a human-rights documentaries festival, screened a generous selection during the third week of March. The French Institute of Bucharest organizes the French-speaking film festival (it started on Friday), screening dozens of new features and including a retrospective of the Dardenne brothers in its programme. On March 28, the sixth edition of Next International Film Festival, Romania's most important short film fest, will begin.