The Magician
TITLE
The Magician
DIRECTOR
Bogdan Mureșanu
COUNTRY
Croatia, France, Romania
YEAR
2025
DURATION
24′
GENRE
Animation
The Magician
Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Bogdan Mureșanu
Bogdan Mureșanu is the writer, director and producer of the feature film "The New Year That Never Came", nominated last year at the European Film Awards (European Discovery 2024 - Prix FIPRESCI) and winner of 23 international awards including the Best Film Award in the Orizzonti section and the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film (Venice International Film Festival), Silver Atlas and Youth Jury Prize at the Arras Film Festival; Grand Prize/ Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film at the Cairo International Film Festival; SILVER PEACOCK Award for Best Direction at the Goa International Film Festival, Grand Prize and International Critics Award - FIPRESCI at the Luxembourg City Film Festival. "The New Year That Never Came" won 10 trophies at the Gopo Awards, four of them for Bogdan Mureșanu - Best Feature Film, Best Debut Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay. He debuted as a screenwriter in 2008 with the screenplay for "The Human Torch" (Best Romanian Short Film at the TIFF Screenplay Competition), and has written the screenplays for "Opinci" (2019) - animated short film directed by Anton and Damian Groves (Best Romanian Short Film at TIFF 2019, Young Audience Award at Clermont Ferrand) and "Where is Sofia? " - Best Screenplay at the OAXACA Film Festival, Mexico 2012, then he wrote and directed the short films "Trimmed, Shaved and Milled" (2013), "Spid" (2016), "Negruzzi 14" (2016) and "Semmelweis Reflex (2016)". The short film "The Christmas Present", released in 2018, won the European Film Academy Award in 2019, had over 200 festival selections and 72 awards (including Grand Prix at the Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, France; Best European Short Film at Alcine, European Film Festival, Spain) and was shortlisted for Oscar nominations.
- DirectorBogdan Mureșanu
- Screenplay Bogdan Mureșanu
- Cinematography
- Cast
- EditingMircea Lăcătuș și Andrei Bǎlǎșoiu
- Producer/s Dan Burlac, Étienne Jaxel- Truer, Miljana Dragicevic, Bogdan Muresanu
- Production Company Kinotopia, în co-production with “MINYA Film and Animation” (Croatia) and “Promenons-nous dans le bois” (France)
- Distributor/sMailuki Films Distributor Worldwide All Rights Mailuki Films Sales Agent Worldwide All Rights
- Project TitleThe Magician
- Project TypeAnimation
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originCroatia, France, Romania
- Country of filmingCroatia, France, Romania
- LanguageRomanian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Bogdan Mureșanu
Bogdan Mureșanu is the writer, director and producer of the feature film "The New Year That Never Came", nominated last year at the European Film Awards (European Discovery 2024 - Prix FIPRESCI) and winner of 23 international awards including the Best Film Award in the Orizzonti section and the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film (Venice International Film Festival), Silver Atlas and Youth Jury Prize at the Arras Film Festival; Grand Prize/ Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film at the Cairo International Film Festival; SILVER PEACOCK Award for Best Direction at the Goa International Film Festival, Grand Prize and International Critics Award - FIPRESCI at the Luxembourg City Film Festival. "The New Year That Never Came" won 10 trophies at the Gopo Awards, four of them for Bogdan Mureșanu - Best Feature Film, Best Debut Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay. He debuted as a screenwriter in 2008 with the screenplay for "The Human Torch" (Best Romanian Short Film at the TIFF Screenplay Competition), and has written the screenplays for "Opinci" (2019) - animated short film directed by Anton and Damian Groves (Best Romanian Short Film at TIFF 2019, Young Audience Award at Clermont Ferrand) and "Where is Sofia? " - Best Screenplay at the OAXACA Film Festival, Mexico 2012, then he wrote and directed the short films "Trimmed, Shaved and Milled" (2013), "Spid" (2016), "Negruzzi 14" (2016) and "Semmelweis Reflex (2016)". The short film "The Christmas Present", released in 2018, won the European Film Academy Award in 2019, had over 200 festival selections and 72 awards (including Grand Prix at the Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, France; Best European Short Film at Alcine, European Film Festival, Spain) and was shortlisted for Oscar nominations.
