Music festivals, IE and shorts in Bucharest during the weekend

There will be music, films, tradition and fashion and a lot of partying this weekend in Bucharest. Several famous Romanian bands and artists like Carla’s Dreams, Firma, Travka, Mihail will perform at Shine Festival.

A new word music festival at the heart of the Romanian Capital, Outernational Days, while short films meet within the “Long night of short films” event.

SHINE Festival, the youngest and most sparkling festival in Bucharest will take place ar Arenele Romane/Roman Arenas on July 1^st and July 2^nd as of 5 p.m. Alternosfera, Subcarpaţi, Carla’s Dreams, Mihail, Boogie Belgique, Robin and the Backstabbers, Firma, Travka, Fameless, Coma, Elderbrook, N.O.R., Byron, Sunet Fin, Aeon Blank, Pinholes, The Kryptonite Sparks and Ligia Hojda will be performing.

OUTERNATIONAL Days chose two venues, Uranus Garden and Club Control to kick off on July 1^st as of 5 p.m. An event by Attic Magazine presents the first edition of the festival taking place during July 1^st to July 3^rd, a new original experience for the Romanian capital city.

The artists who will perform in Bucharest come from various geographical areas Africa (Northern Africa, Congo and Burkina Faso), Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon) and Europe (Germany, UK, Belgium, Austria, France and Romania). DJ sets, conferences, performances, documentary films and so on will join the festival.

There will also be a performing art show, a sound facility, a percussion workshop by Okay Temiz and the screening of Petites Planetes documentary. More details here.

The weekend will also go traditional through the Romanian contemporary, urban IEesc Festival running in Gradina cu Filme and the Creart HQs (7 Lahovari st) during July 1^st –July 3^rd, as of 10 a.m.

The event, holding this second edition this year, is celebrating IA, the famous Romanian traditional blouse, our country brand, which represents a permanent source of inspiration reinterpreting and integrating traditional folk motifs into the contemporary life.

No weekend without movies. Romexpo Central Pavilion will host the Long Night of Short Films on July 2^nd, from 8 p.m. till dawn. 20 shorts awarded at Oscar, Sundance, Cannes and other renowned international film festivals, accompanied by live shows, video sessions and multimedia events meet for the cinema marathon of the year.

“Stutterer” by Benjamin Cleary, (UK, 2015) is a story about loneliness and courage with a redemptional end, which won the Oscar for the best short of the year.

“Sunday Lunch” by Celine Devaux (France, 2015) was awarded the Cesar for animation. When it comes to relatives, James must choose between love and hate, which is not an easy decision.

Bucharesters will also able to view Bacon & God’s Wrath directed by Sol Friedman, (Canada, 2015), the best documentary at Sundance Film Festival. Razie, a 90-year-old Jewish woman gives up Hebrew religion for the bacon and Google.

Further infos available at www.shortsup.ro.