Romanian filmmaker Andreea Cristina Borțun is prepping a feature film to follow on the heels of her anticipated debut, “A River’s Gaze,” a Sebastian Stan-produced drama that’s expected to land a top-shelf festival premiere next year. Borțun is pitching her latest project in the Crossroads Co-Production Forum of the Thessaloniki Film Festival ’s industry arm, Agora, which takes place Nov. 2 – 6.

“The Life and Times of Ion G.” follows the journey of a man from rural Romania who mysteriously appears one day in an isolated Roma village, searching for the family that abandoned him at birth. Instead he forges an unexpected connection with a strong-willed local woman who offers him a glimpse of the love he never had — and forces him to confront his own inability to open his heart to another

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