A major figure of Hungarian cinema, director István Szabó comes to Romania as a special guest of the 20th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival. Over the ten days of the festival, he will be joined by tens of other foreign and Romanian guests, including writer Guillermo Arriaga, Director of the Film Department of the Cannes Film Festival Christian Jeune, Israe...
TIFF Moments by Nicu Cherciu Eroilor Boulevard pedestrian area | July 7 – August 1 If TIFF is memorable, it is also because of the photographs Nicu Cherchiu took over two decades. Stars, audience members, unique cinematic or musical moments remain suspended in time by Nicu’s talent. Mirrors of Brâncuși Art Museum | July 23 – August 1 An exhibition that invites vi...
Ciné-concert: MÚM plays Menschen am Sonntag (Iceland) Saturday, July 24, 9:45 PM, Bánffy Castle in Bonțida Electronic rhythms, ambient sound, and indie-pop experiments blend together in the music of the Icelandic group MÚM. Their projects have been around the world, mesmerizing audiences with their hypnotic sounds, which transcend conventional genres. Saturday, July 24, a...
The works of four emblematic auteurs will be shown at the Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23-August 1, Cluj-Napoca) in the festival’s beloved retrospective sections: Close-up Éric Rohmer presents eight of the lodestar films of one of the most influential filmmakers in history, while the 3x3 section revisits the works of three major directors: Luis García Berlanga...
Binge watchers will be able to discover new productions in a cinema setting at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Coming Up Next is a new section which proposes eight series and miniseries, all Romanian premieres, two of them shown in their entirety as marathons. One pilot episode from the new HBO Romania series Ruxx will have its preview screening at Transilvania I...
Two Romanian films stand for the Transilvania Trophy: Eugen Jebeleanu’s debut Poppy Field tells the story of a gendarme whose professional life is threatened by his relationship with another man; Bogdan George Apetri’s thriller Unidentified follows a police investigation that throws its anti-hero protagonist in a dark, violent world. Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When...
The three films representing Romania in Cannes will all have their national premiere at Transilvania IFF. Included in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Radu Munteanu’s Întregalde tells the thrilling and captivating story about the limits of generosity. And the two shorts, Andreea Borțun’s When Night Meets Dawn and Andrei Epure’s Intercom 15 / Interfon 15, selected in the Quinzain...
International star Sergei Polunin, widely considered as the most talented dancer of his generation, makes his first Romanian appearance as a special guest of the 20th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23-August 1). Fans will get the chance to see him on Thursday, July 29, at 8:30 PM at the Bánffy Castle in Bonțida, in the special event Sergei Polunin...
The mysterious apparition of a monolith disturbs the quiet existence of a Dacian community in the image campaign for the 20th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23-August 1, 2021). The promo clip, signed by the British-Romanian duo Anton and Damian Groves and based on a concept created by the festival team, re-enacts man’s bizarre first encounter over...
Spanish cinema will be celebrated at the 20th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival running from July 23-August 1 in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) in its ‘Spain Focus’, a wide-ranging programme of special screenings, talks and masterclasses, industry initiatives and exhibitions. Within the programme is Carte blanche: San Sebastián, a strong selection of 10 recent Span...
Nae Caranfil, one of the most beloved Romanian directors and a dear guest of the Transilvania International Film Festival, will be awarded the Excellence Award at the 20th edition. The director has been part of the Transilvania IFF history since its first edition, and his latest film, 6.9 on the Richter scale, opened the festival in 2016. In his honor, his first feature film E...
Ultima ediție online a Cineclubului OWR din 2020 dezvăluie portretul cineastului Denis Gheerbrant prin patru dintre documentarele sale realizate în trei decenii diferite. Acestea sunt disponibile în perioada 4 decembrie, 2020 - 3 ianuarie, 2021 pe platforma eventbook.ro. După ce a studiat la Institutul de Înalte Studii Cinematografice (IDHEC) din Paris, Denis Gheerbrant a l...
A treia ediție a Festivalului Filmului Palestinian din România începe joi, cu proiecții online pe platforma Eventbook și cu discuții live cu cineaști palestinieni pe pagina de Facebook a FFP. Timp de cinci zile, publicul va putea să vadă, la orice oră, opt filme palestiniene, prezentate în premieră în România: două lungmetraje de ficțiune, două documentare și patru scurtmetr...