Thirteen films, including four shorts, have been selected to be screened at the Romanian Film Festival in Chisinau, in what organizers say is an attempt to “present a picture as complex and a pallet as broad as possible of what happens today in the Romanian film industry”, Info-Prim Neo reports. Starting on Friday, October 2, the movie theater Odeon will daily host sessions of two films each, until Thursday, October 8. The Festival opened with Adrian Sitaru's “Pescuit Sportiv” (“Sport Fishing”), one of the freshest Romanian productions. The program also includes “Boogie”, directed by Radu Muntean; “Restul e tacere” (“The Rest is Silence”) by Nae Caranfil; “Schimb valutar” (“Exchange”) by Nicolae Margineanu; “Niki Ardelean, colonel in rezerva” by Lucian Pintilie; “Elevator” by George Dorobantu; “Intalniri incrucisate” (“Crossing Dates”) by Anca Damian; “Italiencele” (“The Italian Girls”) by Napoleon Helmis; “Tache” by the Moldovan director Igor Cobileanschi; “Valuri” (“Waves”) by Adrian Sitaru; “Tertium non datur” by Lucian Pintilie; “O zi buna de plaja” (“A Good Day for a Swim”) by Bogdan Mustata; and “Challenge Day” by Napoleon Helmis. The budgets range from nearly one and a half million euros, for the Rest is Silence, to approximately two hundred euros, for Elevator. Commenting on Elevator and, in particular, on its low budget, Romanian film critic Marian Tutui has told a news conference in Chisinau on Friday that the movie is an example of how “an idea and a fruitful collaboration between two young actors can bring success”. Tutui expressed his hope that the audience could one day be able to evolve and start to value other movies than commercial ones. “Comparing these films to the commercial movies is like comparing theater to circus”, he said. The organizers of the Festival are the Romanian Culture Institute, the Romanian Embassy in Moldova, Moldova-Film Studios and the National Cinematography Center.