Remember 9:30PM, when the concert of the legendary latin-american guitarist Eliades Ochoa takes place at Iulius Park Open Air. The opening act, strating at 8:00PM, will be Funkorporation. If you watched Buena Vista Social Club, this concert is for you and also for the fans of this kind of music, because Ochoa will perform live songs from the period illustrated in the film, nam...
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1966) and the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź (1974), Feliks Falk debuted as a filmmaker in the 70s. His name is linked to the term ‘cinema of moral anxiety’, created to diagnosing the Polish reality of that time. The imposition of martial law in 1981 brought an end to this trend. He is present at TIFF with...
On Friday, at 17:00, we invite you to a TIFF talk with actress Dana Rogoz, TV star Amalia Enache and writer Florin Iaru, starting from the subject of the film Full Time (dir. Eric Gravel), winner of two awards at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. The film’s protagonist is Julie, who struggles to raise her two children in the country while she commutes day-to-day for...
Actress Cosmina Stratan accepted the invitation to participate at InspiraTIFF and will come to TIFF Lounge on Friday, June 24, at 3:00PM. The discussion with the audience, moderated by Cristina Stănciulescu, will be broadcast live on the streaming platform TIFF Unlimited. Cosmina Stratan debuted on the big screen in the film După Dealuri (dir. Cristian Mungiu), in the role of...
Friday, 12:30, after the national premiere of the film Metronom, from Unirii Square Open Air, the film team comes to the meeting with the TIFF talks audience. Filmmaker Alexandru Belc, recently returned from Cannes with the Un Certain Regard award for directing, will be present at TIFF Lounge, alongside the actors Mara Bugarin, Șerban Lazarovici and Mara Vicol. Their dialog wit...
Friday, June 24, the day will begin at TIFF Lounge with a discussion about the new wave of filmmakers, moderated by film critic Ionut Mareş. From 11:30, directors Monica Stan, Alina Grigore and Ligia Ciornei will be invited to the meeting with the TIFF Talks audience. Access to the event will be free, and participation of spectators in the discussion is more than encouraged. A...
The dose of InspiraTIFF on Thursday is provided by actor and producer Alexandru Papadopol, one of the protagonists of A Higher Law feature film (r. Octav Chelaru), presented at TIFF in the official competition and ,also, in the Romanian Days section. Come and meet him at TIFF Lounge at 15:00 and find out about his career in film and theater, as well as other projects he works o...
They are young and promising. Their projects have already been acclaimed at national and international festivals. AperiTIFF has selected and presents eight young Romanian filmmakers you should keep an eye on in the upcoming years. Octav Chelaru Octav Chelaru was born in Piatra Neamț on 30 September 1991 and studied computer science in Iasi, a field in which he still works...
How insignificant is the value of freedom for those who have known it all their lives? The director and screenwriter Alexandru Belc answered this question when he made his debut in the fiction feature film with Metronom, a drama that follows the story of a high school couple from the communist period. In the role of the protagonist is Șerban Lazarovici, known for his roles in T...
Csaba Káel (born in 1961) graduated as a film director from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest and directed several television plays, shorts, commercials, portrait films. His debut feature film Bánk bán (2002) was screened all over the world. Since 2011 he is the CEO of the Müpa Budapest, Hungary’s internationally acclaimed cultural institution. In 2019 he was ap...
The series of meetings with Romanian filmmakers invited to TIFF continues on Thursday, at 12:00, at TIFF Lounge. Get ready to meet the creators of the Documentary You are Ceaușescu to me, the only documentary present both in ZFR and What’s up, Doc? section, which has become competitive since this edition. Invited to the public discussion, moderated by film critic Ionut Mareș, w...
On Thursday, the Romanian Days start at TIFF 2022, and on this occasion, we invite you to meet the local actors, directors and producers present at the festival, in a series of discussions scheduled daily at TIFF Lounge. On June 23, at 11:00AM, you have the opportunity to meet the team of the film A Higher Law, included this year both in the ZFR competition and on the list of f...
Wednesday, in the Hungarian Day, at TIFF Lounge, director Csaba Káel - the CEO of the Hungarian National Film Institute, will hold a presentation in which both film professionals and film lovers are invited to participate, starting at 6:00PM, to learn about the Hungarian film industry. Access is free. Government Commissioner for Hungarian Film, Csaba Káel is the CEO of the p...