At the height of her career, Pola Negri was the highest paid woman in the film industry. She lived in a mansion in Los Angeles that resembled the White House and set the fashion tone. That's how America knew red nail polish pedicures, fur boots and turbans. Not bad for a Polish immigrant born into poverty. She had famous lovers like Rudolf Valentino or Charlie Chaplin and s...

We live in a deeply audio-visual age. Everything happens online, we are bombarded with images, graphics, videos and other forms of content being photographed or filmed. We become customers of brands because they won us their campaign and we like how they presented themselves to us in the Facebook feed, Insta or TikTok. In this context, the need to update school programs, inc...

Make films, not war is the message of the 21st edition of TIFF, and in tune with this urge, A World beyond War - the discussion on Monday at TIFF talks, will bring to TIFF Lounge, mister Kai Brand-Jacobsen, President of the Romanian Peace Institute (PATRIR). His dialog with the public will be moderated, starting at 17:00, by Alexandra Iacob, Communications & Global impact leade...

Mihai Chirilov, artistic Director of the Transilvania International Film Festival, is the guest of Monday at InspiraTIFF. Starting at 3PM, the film critic, the festival’s selectioner from the first edition, will answer all the questions received from the audience present at TIFF Lounge (Unirii Square). In the dialog with the spectators, moderated by Adi Demian, Mihai Chirilo...

Orice, oriunde, oricând, by its original and already mega-known name Everything Everywhere All at Once, is probably the most daring and inventive film since Being John Malkovich (1999). That's 23 years of who knows who having seen the most original and innovative in terms of storytelling. It's no surprise: the two Daniels behind it, Scheinert and Kwan, took the film world by st...

In the special atmosphere of the Bánffy Castle, last night the Nosferatu Cine-concert took place, a TIFF – Goethe Institute co-production. Released just over a century ago, the film is a landmark in the history of cinema and proposes a character who later appeared in dozens, if not hundreds, of films: Dracula. For this screening, the sound fund was facilitated by composer Si...

While tennis has always been a popular sport, it wasn’t until the ’70 that it became what it is today, and that was largely due to famous players like Björn Borg, Jimmy Connors or John McEnroe. The transition period was also crossed by Arthur Ashe – the first and only black man to win Wimbledon and one of Obama’s main influences – whose journey from South African apartheid p...

Sunday, from 5PM, at TIFF Lounge, the guests of journalist Mihnea Măruță are Laura Ştefan - coordination of anti-corruption activities for Expert Forum, Liviu Tofan - known for his involvement in Radio Free Europe, currently Director of the Romanian Institute of Recent History, together with journalist and environmental activist Liviu Mihaiu. Their debate will start from the...

The jury that will decide the winner of the Transylvania Trophy at the 2022 edition of the festival brings to Cluj-Napoca five professionals from the world of cinema. Actors, directors, successful producers, but also experts in the international film industry, the members of the Official Competition Jury will watch and analyse the 12 feature films competing this year for the gr...

We talked to director Jan P. Matuszyński about his latest film, ”Leave no traces”, which will be screened in his presence tonight, June 18 at 9PM at Florin Piersic Cinema, how he chose the actor for the leading role, visual influences, but also how the film was received in Poland. How did you come across this subject and what convinced you that it was appropriate to turn it...

Long before Jason in Friday the 13th, Freddy in Nightmare on Elm Street or Michael in Halloween, there was Nosferatu, perhaps the first horror icon in cinema history who, even without countless sequels (only Herzog dared a remake in 1979), has managed to survive to this day. Depicted by the German F.W. Murnau (himself one of the great figures of silent film), the pale, hunchbac...

The most appreciated and controversial films from TIFF 2022 set the tone for the debates at TIFF Talks. The first guests who will speak to film-lovers present in Cluj-Napoca will be artist Corina Chiriac, researcher and activist Mădălina Mocan, along with Mona Muscă – former Minister of Culture. The event will take place Saturday, June 18, at 5PM and will be moderated by Mihnea...

The InspiraTIFF dose on Saturday, June 18, comes from artist Corina Chiriac. A legend of Romanian music, the beloved artist will speak with the public, at TIFF Lounge, from 11 AM. Moderated by Cristian Grindean, access to the event will be free, subject to the availability. With a musical career spanning over five decades, the artist who has delighted generations of Romanian...