I don't know what happens to others when they turn 50, but for me all the months between June 2022 and today have been an emotional and intense rollercoaster. It was probably one of the best years I've ever had. I finished editing Sibiu 89 which in the meantime became Freedom. I filmed for Nasty, the documentary about the life and career of Ilie Nastase, legendary tennis player...
Last year, on the eve of the festival, I gave an interview to Cineuropa. The context was a fraught one, and the questions didn't bypass the tension, invoking head-on the issue of political correctness in cinema. In the months that followed, some congratulated me with a knowing air, almost in whispers, as if it were a secret to be kept to ourselves. Others were surprised that th...
MMXX, the Surprise film of TIFF.22 directed by Cristi Puiu, will be screened Saturday, June 17, at 3:30PM at the Student House. Inspired by the pandemic experience from 2020, the film cosists of four short moments in time that are capturing the wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history. Oana Pfifer, a young therapist visibly distracted by so...
Timothy Spall in conversation with Mihai Chirilov - Known to younger generations for his role as the wizard Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter fantasy franchise, Timothy Spall has often collaborated with director Mike Leigh, winning the best male performance award at the Cannes Film Festival for Mr. Turner (2014). His latest film, Nordic Comfort, opens the 22nd edition of Tran...
Doing a Sidney Lumet selection without missing on anything is a difficult endeavour. Each of his films addresses one of the major dilemmas of present day: corruption, alienation, negotiating truth... All of them hurt deeply and heal at the same time. They have this quality of being two opposing things at once: problem and solution, life and death. Lumet looks at angry people, u...
Would Godart have found out about it, before he decided to leave us, last September? Would he have found out that students of Ecole des Beaux-Arts from Marseille, during one of Didier Morin’s lectures on Le Mépris / Contempt, rushed to unplug the projector while the Brigitte Bardot scene where she rhetorically asks her partner ‘Do you think I have a cute ass? And my breasts. Yo...
Actors Timothy Spall, Geoffrey Rush and Darko Perić, directors Oliver Stone and Michel Franco and producer Čedomir Kolar are part of the masterclasses program at Transilvania IFF.22. The events are open to the public subject to availability and accredited guests and press will have priority access. The meetings take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel. Saturday 10 June, 10:30...
The Coming Up Next section of the Transilvania International Film Festival (June 9 – 18, 2023) offers viewers the opportunity to watch, for the first time in Romania, the first episodes or complete seasons of new series on the big screen. This year's selection features eight titles, including series directed by Lars von Trier and Xavier Dolan, award-winning series from Berlinal...
The Jury of the Official Competition will award the Transilvania Trophy to a first or second feature film director. Twelve films are competing for this award. The Transilvania IFF.22 jury includes Mexican director Michel Franco, awarded in Cannes for the dramas After Lucia (2012), Chronic (2015) and April's Daughter (2017), and Serbian actor Darko Peric, internationally accl...
Liviu Ciulei Centenary To celebrate the 100th anniversary of director Liviu Ciulei’s birthday, Transilvania IFF.22 invites everyone to a special screening of Pădurea Spânzuraților / Forest of the Hanged. Released in 1964, the film received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. Adapted from Liviu Rebreanu's novel about the drama of Lieutenant Apostol Bologa in the...
Five young Romanian and French students in Cluj, majoring in theatre and film, medicine or international cooperation, will watch this year 7 French language films from Canada, France and Switzerland, to award the TV5 Monde, the French Institute and RFI Romania Prize. The prize consists of the purchase of the right to screen the film in Romanian cinemas. The mentor of the TV5...
Actor, director, cartoonist, and writer, Horațiu Mălăele will receive the Excellency Award at the Transilvania IFF.22 Closing Gala on June 17 at the National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca. During his visit to Transilvania IFF, Horațiu Mălăele will perform his show Sunt un orb / A Blind Man on the Unirii Square stage on Friday, June 16, at 20:30. "I follow a principle learned and...
During the two weekends of the festival, 10 and 11 of June and 17 and 18 of June, the Poligon Park in Floresti becomes once again a centre for fun and learning for families, as last year over 10,000 participants attended events here. The organisers have prepared a host of activities from morning to evening. Children are welcome to learn about safety with representatives of t...