Aidan Gillen, the Irish actor whose career has spanned mainstream television and European independent cinema, will be joining the jury of the Official Competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (June 12–21, 2026) in Cluj-Napoca. The festival will also screen two of his most recent films: Gorky Resort and Re-creation. Audiences most readily associate him with...
Transilvania IFF.25 brings 31 local productions to the Romanian Days competition — 11 feature films (most of them fiction debuts) and 20 short films competing for the section’s three major awards: Best Feature Film, Best Debut and Best Short Film. The feature films selected in the Romanian Days competition will also compete for the attention of the FIPRESCI jury, while the shor...
A thriller about a surrogate family, documentaries built from personal archives, and stories about motherhood, identity, and success that arrives too soon — these are all part of the Hungarian Day programme at the 25th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (12–21 June 2026). This year’s selection brings together established directors such as László Nemes, Györ...
Following its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 3 Days in September, the independent comedy directed by Tudor Giurgiu, will make its Romanian debut at the Opening Gala of Transilvania IFF's 25th edition, taking place on Friday, June 12, in Cluj-Napoca's Unirii Square. Shot last autumn, the film stands out as a bold cinematic endeavor, brought to life...
The cinema of the Netherlands is celebrated at the 25th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (12–21 June 2026, Cluj-Napoca) through a selection that brings together both recent debut films presented at major European festivals and cult classics that have influenced entire generations of filmmakers. Focus Netherlands, curated by Evgeny Gusyatinskiy from the pr...
The Transilvania International Film Festival is launching the poster for its 25th edition. At its center is a familiar silhouette — a character who has lived through decades of history without being crushed by them, carried along by the current through monumental events, present in their midst with disarming simplicity. He sits on a bench and tells stories. The world changes....
Polish film distributor, festival founder, producer, and champion of art cinema Roman Gutek will be the first recipient of the Janovics Jenő Award at the Transilvania International Film Festival. His name is attached to the most significant Polish cinematic initiatives of the past three decades. Created in memory of a pioneer of Transylvanian and European cinema, the Janovics J...
Now in its fifth year as a dedicated competition within Transilvania IFF, the What’s Up, Doc? section brings together ten titles that span the full range of what documentary can be: alongside straight-format films, this year’s selection takes in a coyote animation, a poetic hybrid, a model of investigative journalism, and a tongue-in-cheek B-movie series. “For all their ge...
“This year’s lineup is a mix as polarising as the world it comes from. Stark black-and-white minimalism and an overdose of blood and psychedelic colour. True stories and the wildest fabrications. Genre films flirted with, or genre films thrown into an orgiastic blender. Heroes, anti-heroes. A straight line and a Möbius strip. Political satire and loony porn. Absent fathers, e...
The Transilvania International Film Festival announces a partnership with Film Independent, the Los Angeles-based organization behind the Film Independent Spirit Awards and numerous other initiatives supporting and championing independent filmmaking. As part of this collaboration, Film Independent will present Always Remember in Transilvania, a series of free screenings support...
In Spices and Lies, Mehdi and Léa work at the same restaurant and, between shifts and future plans, have also become a couple. They live together and are seriously considering taking over their boss’s business as he approaches retirement, especially with the support of Léa’s parents. Things become more complicated when Léa wants to meet Mehdi’s mother. Since he has never told h...
Winner of two awards at the latest Goya Awards, where it was nominated in eight categories, La Cena is set in 1939, immediately after the end of the Spanish Civil War. A group of defeated Republican chefs is ordered to prepare a celebratory banquet for Franco and his top generals at Madrid’s Palace Hotel. As they carry out this assignment, they devise a risky plan that may repr...
What if you discovered there is an international porridge championship? In The Golden Spurtle, this seemingly absurd premise becomes the starting point for a journey into a small Scottish village where, once a year, people from around the world compete in the art of transforming oats into a memorable bowl of porridge. Beyond the humor and competition, the documentary warmly and...