Bucharest Film Festival
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The Bucharest Film Festival is a defunct film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 active between 1948 and 1968 in the city of Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 founded by Nicolae Barbu. Originally known as the Bucharest Festival of Socialist Film due to its part funding by the Communist Party
Communist party
A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

, the festival specialized in films of the Eastern Bloc
Eastern bloc
The term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...

and left-leaning European cinema. The festival was renamed after the relaxing of Moscow's hold on cinema that came with the death of Stalin.

The main prize was The Golden Wolf. Prizes were also awarded for Special Achievement in Direction, Best Actor and Best Film with a Socialist Theme. This last prize was dropped in 1954.

The festival has been replaced by the B-Est International Film Festival which started in 2005.

The first International Film Festival in Bucharest having an international feature competition and an international jury was created in 2005 uner the name of BucharEST International Film Festival. There was no International Film Festival in Bucharest - Romania before 2005 awarding Romanian and International movies.
All information in Wikipedia about "Bucharest Film Festival" created in 1949 and about the "Wolf" as the festival award which appear in Wikipedia are fake.
For more information about "BucharEST IFf" please consult the festival website www.b-est.ro

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