Mexican director and producer Michel Franco, known for his film After Lucia, winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, as well as for Sundown, which is premiering at Transilvania IFF.22, will hold a masterclass in directing for film students in Cluj-Napoca. Michel Franco's notoriety is due to his authentic style, oriented towards a specific nich...

For over 10 years, TIFF has been promoting and awarding filmmakers from Cluj, giving them the opportunity to showcase their latest productions on the big screen as part of the Local Competition. This year, seven out of the 31 submitted short films have been selected as finalists. "30.03" (dir. Ruxandra Bratfalean-Igna) is a portrayal of memories leading up to the death of a...

Foreign television series have become increasingly popular in recent years, and in the midst of the American screenwriters' strike, their popularity is gaining even more momentum. TIFF is presenting eight series from around the world this year, which are lesser-known or not yet available for streaming in Romania but deserve an audience as large as the current trending titles. A...

This year Mexican-born director, screenwriter and producer Michel Franco will be at Transilvania IFF.22 as part of the jury for the official competition, and his latest film, Sundown (2021), reuniting Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg, is part of the festival programme.  Michel Franco's name carries weight in the contemporary cinema world due the thematic polymorphism he del...

This year, TIFF is one of the founding partners of SMART7, an initiative aimed at promoting innovation in European cinema and enhancing the audience experience. SMART7 is a network of European film festivals dedicated to the development of the cultural industry and the festival field. It aims to provide a meeting space for works by new European filmmakers within an itinerant...

Based on the autobiographical book "All or Nothing" (2015) by rapper Xatar, "Rheingold" is the film of all films. What director Fatih Akin manages to achieve seems impossible, especially considering its nearly three-hour duration, which feels like a fresh bullet fired from an angry boy's pistol. If only his father hadn't left, nothing would have happened. Or perhaps if his moth...

After a long line of films debated left and right that culminated in the biblical allegory mother! in 2017, Darren Aronofsky could only return with another controversial film. Adapted from a play by Samuel D. Hunter, who also signed the screenplay, The Whale tells the story of a man suffering from morbid obesity who, in the last days of his life, is trying to get closer to his...

We're looking at hybrids between barely visible fiction and classic documentary - made up of archive footage, interviews and historical re-enactments. This new type of documentary does not claim to cover all sides of a truth, but focuses on just one of them. In abandoning the search for an indisputable truth, the documentary genre thus frees itself from the reins and, in this h...

British actor Timothy Spall received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Transilvania IFF.22 Opening Gala. The audience then watched the Icelandic comedy Nordic Comfort on the big screen in Piața Unirii. Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, the film, starring Timothy Spall, tells the story of a diverse group of people with a chronic fear of flying. On Saturday, June 10...

James (Alexander Skarsgård) and Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are on vacation in an exceptional resort. He, a lesser-known writer, she, the daughter of the publishing house owner. Their relationship seems inertial. Maybe they are living the best life, or maybe they just don't get along like they used to. Coincidentally, they come across Gabi (Mia Goth), an angelic girl who declares he...

FRIDAY, JUNE 16 The screening of the film Freedom, scheduled for 9:45 PM in Unirii Square, will be moved in two different locations: Student House at 9:15PM Hungarian Opera House at 9:45PM The screening of Afire scheduled for 9:15PM, at the Student House will be moved at 11:00AM, tomorrow, 17.06, at Cinema Florin Piersic  The screening of Last transhumance, s...

Timothy Leonard Spall was born on February 27, 1957 and grew up in London in a modest family. His father worked at the post office and his mother was a hairdresser. His passion for acting captured him since childhood, when he joined the troupe of the National Youth Theatre. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, later becoming an Associate Member. Currently enjoy...

Today, June 10, at 8:30 pm, at the Banffy Castle in Bonțida, Swedish-English singer Jay-Jay Johanson will have his first concert since the release of his latest album. Banffy Castle is known today for two things: festivals and an electrical atmosphere. Tonight, the two will be combined by Jay-Jay Johanson, often called one of the most influential figures in the field of trip...