“Crulic – The Path to Beyond”, Friday, 6pm, Union Cinema

Crulic – The Path to Beyond (d. Anca Damian) was the 2011 Anim’est opening film in Bucharest. Its worldwide first projection was in the Official Competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. It tells the story of Claudiu Crulic, a Romanian citizen who died in January 2008 in a prison in Poland, at age 33, three months after a hunger strike, being completely ignored both by the Polish authorities and the Romanian ones.

Post mortem, he becomes the commentator of his own death thanks to the well renowned actor Vlad Ivanov’s voiceover.

Amidst the animation techniques used are some made by drawing, painting, stop-motion or collage. The animation artists’ team consists of: Raluca Popa, Roxana Benţu, Tuliu Olteanu, Dan Panaitescu, Dragoş Ştefan. These two latter range with some trainers that managed, for two weeks, the making of some short animation films for the Animation Worksheep 1^st edition.