25/02/2014 - Child’s Pose is not the most nominated film at the eighth edition of the Romanian film industry awards

The Romanian-Moldovan co-production The Unsaved [+see also:
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The Unsaved is duking it out for the Best Film Award against Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose [+see also:
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Luminiţa Gheorghiu (Child’s Pose), Diana Avrămuţ (When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism), Ioana Flora (Déjà vu), Ioana Anastasia Anton (Miss Christina [+see also:
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With 13 nominations, The Unsaved is the most nominated film in this edition, followed by Adrian Sitaru’s Domestic and Marian Crişan’s Rocker, which have 11 nominations each; Child’s Pose has ten nominations, and The Japanese Dog has eight.

Child’s Pose is set to win the Audience Award, after becoming the most successful domestic release of the last decade, with more than 110,000 admissions. The Gopos will also present a prize for the Best European Film of 2013: Love [+see also:
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interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
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interview: Margarethe von Trotta
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
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film profile] and A Hijacking [+see also:
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interview: Tobias Lindholm
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The winners will be announced during a gala ceremony on 24 March.