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Festival Schedule

International Film Festival Quo Vadis will take place over four days: 7 - 10 november, Iași

Thursaday - november 7


Iasi Athenaeum

12.30 – 14.30 False treatise on the salvation of the soul (Fals tratat de mântuire a sufletului, Drama, Romania, Director Nicolae Mărgineanu)Reserve a seat


14.45 – 15.30 After the Rooster’s Crow (Drama, Serbia, Director Hadži-Aleksandar Đurović)Reserve a seat


17.30 – 19.20 QUO VADIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GRAND OPENING CEREMONYReserve a seat


19.30 – 21.30 Sacred Alaska (Documentary, USA, Director Simon Scionka)Reserve a seat




Braunstein Palace (Brick Hall)

10.00 – 10.30 500 (Drama, Romania, Director Bogdan Albu)Reserve a seat


10.30 – 11.45 The Service (Drama, Serbia, Director Andrej Šepetkovski)Reserve a seat


11.45 – 12.40 A Saint of the Words. Metropolitan Dosoftei of Moldavia (Un sfânt al cuvintelor. Mitropolitul Dosoftei al Moldovei, Documentary, Romania, Doxologia Media)Reserve a seat


12.45 – 14.15 Jerusalem (Ierusalim, Documentary, Romanaia, Trinitas TV)Reserve a seat




International Center for Contemporary Art

10.00 – 12.00 Round table (with public) Ethics and Aesthetics in Film. Host - Faculty of Orthodox Theology Dumitru Stăniloae of IasiReserve a seat

Participants: filmmakers from Australia, USA, Serbia, Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania




Friday - november 8


Iasi Athenaeum

11.00 – 13.30 A Cross in the Desert. Saint Paraskevi (Feature Fiction, Serbia, Director Hadži-Aleksandar Đurović)Reserve a seat


14.00 – 15.15 Saint Nicholas. The Face of Kindness (Sfântul Nicolae. Chipul blandetii, Docudrama, Romania, Trinitas TV)Reserve a seat


16.00 – 18.00 Lazarus’ Path (Drama, Serbia-Grece, Director Ivan Jovic)Reserve a seat


18.30 – 20.30 Narrator (Drama, Kyrgyzstan, Director Ernest Abdyzhaparov)Reserve a seat




Braunstein Palace (Brick Hall)

11.00 – 12.30 Martyr of the Union. The Holy Martyr Priest Alexander of Bessarabia (Martirul Unirii. Sfântul Preot Mucenic Alexandru din Basarabia, Docudrama, Romania, Trinitas TV)Reserve a seat


12.30 – 14.15 Romanians in the Soviet Gulag (Românii in gulagul sovietic, Documentary, Romania, Trinitas TV)Reserve a seat


18.00 – 19.00 In Vivo (In Vivo, Documentary, Romania, Director Cristina Chirvasie)Reserve a seat

(a film about martyrs, martyrdom, with Dr. Nicolae Constantinescu, known as the surgeon at Colțea Hospital in Bucharest who operated on the wounded from the 1989 Revolution)


19.00 – 19.30 Antidote to vain (Antidot la zadar, Documentary, Romania, Director Cristina Chirvasie)Reserve a seat

(a movie about suffering and hope, with writer and translator Micaela Ghițescu, former political prisoner)


19.30 – 20.15 Metany before the Cross (Metanie dinaintea Crucii, Documentary, Romania, Director Cristina Chirvasie)Reserve a seat

(a movie dedicated to the father confessor in communist prisons, Dimitrie Bejan, with his niece, Cornelia Anichitei)




SIustin Moisescu Hall (in the premises of the Metropolitan Ensemble of Iasi)

Centenary Sergey Parajanov(Georgia and Armenia)

11.00 – 12.45 The Colour of Pomegranate (Drama, Director Sergey Parajanov)Reserve a seat


12.45 – 14.15 The Legend of the Suram FortressReserve a seat


14.15 – 14.45 Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme (Drama, Director Sergey Parajanov)Reserve a seat




International Center for Contemporary Art

16.00 – 18.00 Opening of the photo exhibition Freedom, in the presence of photographer Yuri Mechitov (Georgia)Reserve a seat




Saturday - november 9


Iasi Athenaeum

10.00 – 12.30 The Road to Eden (Drama, Kyrgyzstan, Directors Dastan Zapar Uulu and Bakytbek Mukul)Reserve a seat



12.30 – 19.30 Centenary Tengiz Abuladze

13.00 – 14.50 The Tree of Wishes (Drama, Georgia, Director Tengiz Abuladze)Reserve a seat


15.00 – 17.45 The Repentance (Drama, Georgia, Director Tengiz Abuladze)Reserve a seat


18.00 – 19.30 The Prayer (Drama, Georgia, Director Tengiz Abuladze)Reserve a seat




Mihai Ursachi House of Culture in Copou - Diotima Hall

10.00 – 11.00 Only Love Can Save Us (Drama, Serbia, Director Hadži-Aleksandar Đurović)Reserve a seat


11.20 – 11.55The Sunday Shirt (Documentary, Romania, Director Cristina Chirvasie)Reserve a seat

(a movie about simplicity, truth and joy, with director Nicolae Mărgineanu)


12.00 – 12.40 The man who walks with the ladder (Documentary, Romania, Director Cristina Chirvasie)Reserve a seat

(a movie about truth, courage and freedom, with the violinist Ioana-Raluca Voicu-Arnăuțoiu, daughter of Toma Arnăuțoiu from the anti-communist resistance group from Nucșoara)


12.40 – 13.30 Toma Arnăuțoiu (Documentary, Romania, Director Cristina Chirvasie)Reserve a seat


13.30 – 14.00 The Living Wood (Documentary, Romania, Director Cristina Chirvasie)Reserve a seat

(with doctor Galina Răduleanu, former political prisoner)




Iustin Moisescu Hall (in the premises of the Metropolitan Ensemble of Iasi)

15.00 – 17.00 Quo Vadis ConferencesReserve a seat

Milja Radovic (Austria, University of Vienna)

Hristos Valhonassios (Australia)

Gulbara Tolomushova (Kyrgyzstan)




Mihai Eminescu Aula Magna (Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi)

17.30 – 18.40 Saint Joseph the Hesychast (Docudrama, Greece, Directors Alexandros Foteinos and Yiannis Traganidas)Reserve a seat


19.00 – 20.30 Conference held by Jonathan Jackson (actor, USA)Reserve a seat




“Alexandru Tzaicu” Hall of Simulation Centre, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iasi

17.00 ConferenceThe Therapy of the soul and book lauch held by Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Vatopaidi MonasteryReserve a seat

Presenters: Prof. Adrian Opre and Fr. Răzvan Ionescu




Sunday - november 10


Iasi Athenaeum

12.00 – 14.00 The Scream (Drama, Kyrgyzstan, Director Kenzhebek Shaikakov)Reserve a seat


15.00 – 17.00 God’s Gift (Drama, Kyrgyzstan, Director Asel Zhuraeva)Reserve a seat




Iustin Moisescu Hall (in the premises of the Metropolitan Ensemble of Iasi)

12.00 – 13.30 The White Gate (Poarta Alba, Drama, Romania, Director Nicolae Mărgineanu)Reserve a seat


13.30 – 15.15 The Cardinal (Cardinalul, Drama, Romania, Director Nicolae Mărgineanu)Reserve a seat


15.15 – 17.30 Somewhere in the East (Undeva în Est, Drama, Romania, Director Nicolae Mărgineanu)Reserve a seat




Mihai Ursachi House of Culture in Copou - Diotima Hall

14.00 – 16.00 Man of God (Feature Fiction, Greece, Director Yelena Popovic)Reserve a seat



16.00 – 18.00 - Centenary Sergey Parajanov(Georgia și Armenia)

16.00 – 17.30 Ashik-Kerib (Documentary, Georgia, Director Sergey Parajanov)Reserve a seat


17.30 – 18.00 Hakob Hovnatanian (Documentary, Georgia, Director Sergey Parajanov)Reserve a seat




Mihai Eminescu Aula Magna (Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi)

17.30 – 19.00 Conference held by Archimandrite Efrem, the Abbot of Vatoped MonasteryReserve a seat




Aula Magna Carmen Sylva of Technical University Gh. Asachi from Iasi

19.30 – 21.00 QUO VADIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CLOSING CEREMONYReserve a seat