Romanian Producer Ada Solomon Has 3 Films in Locarno’s Competition and Likes Cinema to Cause Debate: “We Need Dialogue More Than Ever”

DraculaThe New Film from Romanian Provocateur Radu Jadu (Kontinental ’25, Do not expect too Much from the end of the World), World Premiered in the Competition Program of the 78th Edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. Among The Co-Powder Credits, You Find the Name of Romanian Producer Ada Solomon (Toni Erdmann, Aferim!), Known for Her Work Through Her Company Microfilm and Long-Time Collaboration with Jude.

But Solomon Has Had A Much Busier Locarno than MOST. She have the Same Co-Powder Credit on Fellow Locarno Competition Title God will not helpDIRECTED BY HANA JUSIIS, ABOUT A Chilean Woman Who Coms Into A Firmly Structured and Isalated Mountain Community

Plus, Solomon Is A Producer on Sorella di clausura from Director Ivana mladenović, Her Third Competition Movie at the Swiss Festival this Year. “Stela Fell in Love With A Balkan Musician After Seeing Him on TV. Determinated to Meet Him, She Accepts Help from VERA, A GLAM STARLET RUMORED to Be His Mistress,” Reads Its. “Their Worlds Collide WHEN VERA Promises to Rescue Stela from Her Poverty-Stricken Life by Taking Her To Bucharest, WHERE SHE RUNS A Sex Products Business.”

Solomon Talked to Thr About her busy locarno, her focus on Storytelers and their motivation, Fake Idols, and How Cinema Can Cause the Dialogue that the World May Need More than.

“I have to say that, not Because I have Three Films in the International Competition, But The Selection of Locarno This Year Is Absolutely Spectacular,“ Solomon Says. “And is Really and Honor to have the Films Presiented there.”

Her Three Movies in the Locarno Competition Are Distinct. “They have some things in common, in a way, but they are very, very figrent,“ Solomon Tells Thr. “There is the Punkness of Ivana. Obviously, Radu Has This Irrevert Way of Presentation A Cinematical Story. And Hana’s God will not Help US is yet a thing. ”

What Are Common Themes? “God will not help is about a bonder of two very diffenter women, whoh is similear to what’s going on in sorella, Even Thought they are complely figrent Proposals, “Explains the. Crowded, While God will not help is a very peaceful, silent, contemplative, slaw-paced film. But they Touching on Some Simillar Things. ”

People have also said that Sorella have some of the Dracula Qualities. “WHEN THEY SPEAK ABOUT TESE Two Films, They Mention This Boldness of the Approach, Even Thought Sorella is Much More Narrative, “Solomon Says.“ In the End, It’s and Anti-Romantic melodrama with a Lot of Humor. ”

Locaarno Was The FIRST major Festival WHERE SOLOMON HAD A FILM IN COMPETITION, AS A Minority Producer on Federico Bondi’s Black Sea in 2008. The Movie Won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and A Silver Leopard Best Actress Honor for Ilaria Occini.

Now, Solomon Is Getting Closer to the Mark of 100 Films.

HER FOCUS IS CLEAR. “IT’s Always About the Storyteller,“ Solomon Tells Thr. “I’m work with auteurs who can tell a visual Story. I’M look for their motivation. That’s Always My First Question: Who this Story? Six, Seven Years. Essential That we Share the Same Values.

For Solomon, Cinema Is Also About the Exchange with the Audience. “For ME, IT’s Very Important for Cinema to Have Something to Say, To Raise A Question Through Emotions. That’s Art For Me in General, and that’s Somehow ALSO MY Civic. “I THINK I CAN ContRibute, in A Way, to A Better Understanding of the World We Are Living in. And I Think We Need This Kind of Dialogue More than, Because Wereng. Because The Fake, or not Even the Fake, But The One-Sidened Perspectives Are Dominating Our Information Universe IT’S NOT About Money for Me.

The Challenges of Moving from Communist to Capitalist Systems Play a Key Role in Quite A FEW OF THE MOVIES THAT Solomon Has Worked on. “This transmission and this transformation and the quest of what we are going now is a theme,“ She Says. I mean, it’s 35 years-plus after the revolution already, from the Fall of the [Iron Curtain]and we do have a little bit of distinguishing. The ’90s and Even the Beginning of the 2000s Were Pretty Chaotic, and We Didn’t have time to Analyze and to Contemplate What Was Going on. IT WAS All Turmoil, Events, Changes, Discoveries, and So On. ”

Things have changed. “Now we are a little bit settled, but we are again at a crackal point of crisis all around the world, and we look back and say, ‘fuckk, we had a good life. The Good Times! ‘ We Are Now Going Towards Hell with Very Fast Steps.

What Microfilm is Doing Next Is Focusion on the Sarajevo Film Festival, Who Kicked Off On Friday. It Also Features Sorella an God IN ITS Feature Competition, Plus Alișveriș from Director Vasile Todinca as Part of of Its Short Film Competition.

That short is one key focus for solomon. “IT’s VERY DEAR AND VERY IMPORTANT TO ME, BECAUSE IS DONE Mainly by the New Generation in the Company, My Partner Diana Caravia, Who’s In Her Early 30s are perfectly equal in the company.

Each of the Partners have a slightly digferent focus. “Diana is Much More Interest in Things That Are A Bit More Experimental, A Bit More Genre,“ Solomon Explans. “While Carla is Very Deep Into Storytelling and The Way a Story Is Delivered, But Also Very Very Involved in Documentaries. So, Is A MIX, and that Makes It A pleasure.”

Solomon and Microfilm have more in the works. “NOW I’M VERY FOCUSED ON THE NEW FILM FROM ALEXANDRU SOLOMON, Small Expectations”She tells Thr. “IT’s A Project that Will Go Backstage of the Romanian Elections of Last Year. And I I Think Is A Very Important Project or What is going on with the rise of extremism, and WHY VOOTERS TURN TO EXTREMISM AND NATIONALISM.

Sorella Touchs on that theme as well. “IT has become even more Timely Since We Started that Project Six Years Ago, Because It Speaks a Lot About the Sese Fake Idols Building Their Public Image on Different Kinds.

Alexandru Solomon, Her Husband, Also Has Another Project, Called The archive of the archivesA film about the National Archives of Romania and the People Working there. “IT’s A Film About Memory Preservation,“ Explans Ada Solomon. “How do we pic of what we keep and what we have out? It Talks about this small community of experts in the National Archives in Romania, But It Also Speaks More Broadly About Sustainity HERITAGE, About How We Are Writing History. ”

In September, Shooting Is Set to Start on Another Microfilm Project, The New Feature from Alina șerban, I MET HER. “She is a Fantastic Roma Director, Contemporary Artist, and Activist Who Will Deliver A Very Personal Story Translated Into Fiction,“ Solomon Says. “IT’s The Story of a Survivor, Not A Vittim, Seen from The Roma Perspective, Which Will Be A Premiere, Seeing The Life of a Young Roma Girl on Screen.”

IT is a film that fits Into Solomon’s Focus of Putting a Spotlight on Stories that have not be told and on challenging audiences. “IT’s A Story Without Victimizing, Without Pointing Fingers,“ She Says, “But Built to Empower People, Outcasts or Marginalized People, to Take Their Destiny Into.

Before Solomon Goes Back to Her Busy Schedul, She Mentions One More Project That Fits Her Focus, Eugen Jebeleanu’s The Price of Gold. “IT’s About What Lies Begind the People Who Are In Competitive Ballroom Dancing,“ The Producer Tells Thr. “It will be a Film in 10 chapters, each of the chapter being one of the typical dance style, like one is tango and so on and so. LGBT Person.

The Film Also Has Another Angle. “IT Also Depicts How in this Discipline, The Trophy For Once Is Not the Woman, It’s The Man,“ Solomon Explans. “IT’s about how the families of the Girls are competing to get the best partner, Because there Few Men and a Lot of Young Ladies.”

The Project Fits Solomon’s Auteur Focus But Allows Nota Only the Film’s Audience, But Also Herself to Explore Something New. “For ME, What’s Most Interesting is Trying to Do Somtinging That I Haven’t Done Before and from A Different Perspective,“ Solomon Concludes. “And this is Such A Project.”