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.
The bench is a direct and ironic reference to the street furniture that marked Cluj-Napoca in the early 2000s — a statement made in paint, visible and emphatic. Those benches no longer exist. But the mindsets that created them…?
TIFF was born in the same city, at the same time. Twenty-five years later, the festival remains a landmark: it has weathered crises, pandemics, and paradigm shifts, continuously reinventing itself and bringing new worlds, languages, and perspectives to the screen. The silhouette in the poster sits with luggage packed, yet does not leave. It is the figure of someone who has seen everything, did not pretend otherwise, and chose to stay. Still here.
The poster was created by the festival’s Art Director, Péter Árpád Loránt.