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Gustar – ethno music festival

“Gustar” is an ethno festival, at its first edition. Gustar invites the citizen of Moldova and foreign tourists to a multicultural dialogue. The event takes place during the national holidays in the month of August. People call it gustar, archaic word that symbolizes the month when most of the fruits including grapes are ripe and are tasted.

Gustar – ethno music festival invites the representatives of various cultures to Moldova to taste the yield of this land and international ethno music creation.

It takes place at the Orhei Museum Complex – a location of major tourist attraction, where cultural remains are kept from historical periods from 30 000 years ago: stone, copper, bronze, iron ages, ancient and medieval times.

www.gustar.md

Timishort International Film Festival

Timishort is the main event organized by the Romanian Association of Independent Film (ARFI) annually from 2009, in order to create a new pole of cinematic interest, representative for the western part of the country.

The festival is built around an international competition of 16 short films (of maximum 30 min.) and differs from other events of its kind in Romania by the fact that the focus is on author films, acknowledging and promoting the talent of filmmakers worldwide. Alongside the official competition, starting from 2010, the festival proposes a competitive section dedicated to experimental video shorts – Videorama.

These main sections are added to others that aren’t competitions, like panorama, portrait or review, designed to provide viewers from all over the world with short films for all tastes. The Festival program includes specialized workshops (directing, screenwriting etc.) offering the audience the chance to get familiar with the practice and theory of cinematography.

Beyond the value of the films they propose, Timishort enjoys every year the presence of leading professionals from cinematography and renowned film critics (Romanian and foreign), in the competition jury as well as among guests at other sections.

More details about Timishort Festival: www.timishort.ro

IRAF – International Rromani Art Festival

The 5th edition of International Rromani Art Festival – 23-26 June – Cluj Napoca

More about IRAF at www.iraf.ro

Gărâna Jazz Festival 2011