NewFest, New York City’s premier LGBTQ film festival, swings into its 33rd edition on Friday, delivering over 130 features, shorts, and documentaries across theaters in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and for those viewers outside of NYC, at home virtually.
The festival this year runs October 15 through 26, kicking off on Friday with the east coast premiere of the documentary “Mayor Pete,” about Secretary of Transportation and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg. The film brings viewers inside his campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, and looking at his marriage to his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team — from the earliest days of the campaign to his unlikely victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land — and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.
The festival this year runs October 15 through 26, kicking off on Friday with the east coast premiere of the documentary “Mayor Pete,” about Secretary of Transportation and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg. The film brings viewers inside his campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, and looking at his marriage to his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team — from the earliest days of the campaign to his unlikely victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land — and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.
- 10/15/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
A young gay police officer who’s worked hard to keep his sexuality hidden must face his inner demons when he’s forced to intervene during an anti-gay protest at a Bucharest movie theater. Trapped in the macho, rigidly hierarchical world of the Romanian police force and confronted by a young protester who threatens to expose him, he suddenly finds himself spiraling out of control.
In “Poppy Field,” veteran theater director Eugen Jebeleanu makes his feature-film debut with a story inspired by real-life events in Romania. Produced by Velvet Moraru of Bucharest-based Icon Production, the film stars Conrad Mericoffer as the conflicted policeman, with acclaimed Romanian New Wave cinematographer Marius Panduru (“Aferim!”) handling the camera.
“Poppy Field” had its world premiere last fall in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Ahead of its Romanian premiere at the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, Jebeleanu spoke to Variety about the experience of switching...
In “Poppy Field,” veteran theater director Eugen Jebeleanu makes his feature-film debut with a story inspired by real-life events in Romania. Produced by Velvet Moraru of Bucharest-based Icon Production, the film stars Conrad Mericoffer as the conflicted policeman, with acclaimed Romanian New Wave cinematographer Marius Panduru (“Aferim!”) handling the camera.
“Poppy Field” had its world premiere last fall in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Ahead of its Romanian premiere at the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, Jebeleanu spoke to Variety about the experience of switching...
- 7/22/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
LGBTQ drama played Miami after Tallinn world premiere.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to LGBTQ drama Poppy Field, Romanian theatre director Eugen Jebelenu’s feature debut that screened recently at Miami International Film Festival.
‘Poppy Field’: Tallinn Review
The film stars Conrad Mericoffer as a closeted Romanian policeman struggling with his role as a policeman in a macho environment.
Challenges ensue when his long-distance French boyfriend visits as the officer faces being outed when he intervenes at a cinema where a homophobic ultra-nationalist group has interrupted the screening of a queer film.
Poppy Field received its North...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to LGBTQ drama Poppy Field, Romanian theatre director Eugen Jebelenu’s feature debut that screened recently at Miami International Film Festival.
‘Poppy Field’: Tallinn Review
The film stars Conrad Mericoffer as a closeted Romanian policeman struggling with his role as a policeman in a macho environment.
Challenges ensue when his long-distance French boyfriend visits as the officer faces being outed when he intervenes at a cinema where a homophobic ultra-nationalist group has interrupted the screening of a queer film.
Poppy Field received its North...
- 3/19/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
LGBTQ drama played Miami after Tallinn world premiere.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to LGBTQ drama Poppy Field, Romanian theatre director Eugen Jebelenu’s feature debut that screened recently at Miami International Film Festival.
The film stars Conrad Mericoffer as a closeted Romanian policeman struggling with his role as a policeman in a macho environment.
Challenges ensue when his long-distance French boyfriend visits as the officer faces being outed when he intervenes at a cinema where a homophobic ultra-nationalist group has interrupted the screening of a queer film.
Poppy Field received its North American premiere in Miami earlier...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to LGBTQ drama Poppy Field, Romanian theatre director Eugen Jebelenu’s feature debut that screened recently at Miami International Film Festival.
The film stars Conrad Mericoffer as a closeted Romanian policeman struggling with his role as a policeman in a macho environment.
Challenges ensue when his long-distance French boyfriend visits as the officer faces being outed when he intervenes at a cinema where a homophobic ultra-nationalist group has interrupted the screening of a queer film.
Poppy Field received its North American premiere in Miami earlier...
- 3/19/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Conrad Mericoffer in Poppy Field Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
A powerful, resonant film about the stresses of keeping secrets, Eugen Jebeleanu’s Poppy Field is one of the highlights of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. It follows Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer), a young gendarme who has a passionate relationship with his French boyfriend but is terrified of any of his colleagues finding out that he’s gay. When his unit is called out to deal with a situation in a cinema, where religiously inspired campaigners are protesting against the screening of a film by an LGBT group, he is afraid of being outed, and when one of the men there recognises him from his secret life, it becomes apparent that he’s willing to go to extremes to avoid it.
Eugen Jebeleanu Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
When Eugen and I met to discuss the film, I...
A powerful, resonant film about the stresses of keeping secrets, Eugen Jebeleanu’s Poppy Field is one of the highlights of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. It follows Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer), a young gendarme who has a passionate relationship with his French boyfriend but is terrified of any of his colleagues finding out that he’s gay. When his unit is called out to deal with a situation in a cinema, where religiously inspired campaigners are protesting against the screening of a film by an LGBT group, he is afraid of being outed, and when one of the men there recognises him from his secret life, it becomes apparent that he’s willing to go to extremes to avoid it.
Eugen Jebeleanu Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
When Eugen and I met to discuss the film, I...
- 2/24/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer) is passionately in love with his boyfriend; one can see it the moment the Frenchman arrives, come to stay for a few days in Cristi's small Romanian apartment. They kiss in the elevator with the hunger of a couple too long apart. When he's finished his next shift, Cristi says, he doesn't want to get out of bed until the weekend. But when his sister pops by, he's secretive about the situation. His boyfriend doesn't understand why he isn't more open. It's complicated, Cristi says.
It's complicated, in large part, because Cristi is a police officer. Over the past two decades there have been major changes in the laws around homosexuality in Romania. It's no longer illegal for men to have sexual relationships with one another; there are even anti-discrimination laws pertaining to the workplace. But legal change and social change are two very different things. So are.
It's complicated, in large part, because Cristi is a police officer. Over the past two decades there have been major changes in the laws around homosexuality in Romania. It's no longer illegal for men to have sexual relationships with one another; there are even anti-discrimination laws pertaining to the workplace. But legal change and social change are two very different things. So are.
- 2/24/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
This year’s gathering, which was held purely online, has handed out its most high-profile awards to the Spanish production directed by Fon Cortizo and to Daria Woszek’s Polish effort. As announced in a previous article (see the news), for its 2020 edition, the Gijón International Film Festival was held on the Ficx.TV, festhome and filmin platforms, and in addition, it split its official selection into three strands, dubbed Retueyos, Albar and Tierres en Trance. In Retueyos, the Best Film Award was split between 9 fugas by Galician helmer Fon Cortizo and Marygoround, the colouristic feature debut by Poland’s Daria Woszek, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, consisting of Pilar Monsell, Michael Zam and Mihai Chirilov. Furthermore, the Best Actor gong was conferred upon the lead in Poppy Field, Romanian thesp Conrad Mericoffer, while the Distribution Award...
- 11/30/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The story, written by Ioana Moraru, follows a closeted gay gendarme whose life spins out of control after a homophobic protest. After forging a career as a theatre director, Romania's Eugen Jebeleanu is moving into film directing with his first feature, Poppy Field, a story about a closeted gay gendarme who is threatened with exposure at a homophobic protest. The 100% Romanian film was produced by Velvet Moraru through Icon Production, and co-produced by Motion Picture Management, represented by Rodrigo Ruiz Tarazona Diaz and Cornelia Popa, and Cutare Film, represented by Cosmin Fericean. The screenplay, written by Ioana Moraru, centres on a closeted gay gendarme, Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer), who tries to keep his sexual preferences a secret, as he works in an extremely macho and chauvinistic public institution. While his long-distance French boyfriend Hadi (Radouan Leflahi) is visiting him in Bucharest, Cristi is called out on mission to a movie...
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