Theo Kamecke is a new York director from the ’70. Originally a sculptor, he made his film debut in 1964, directing the film To be alive!  Although his career was short-lived, his second film, Moonwalk one (1971), made its mark on the history of cinema, which is why today we celebrate it with a cine-concert, with the music of the invaders, almost 53 years after the landing. A...

Javier Bardem has a special talent for turning disagreeable characters into savory delights for the public's eyes (one of the most prominent examples is the killer Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men). This is also the case of the protagonist Blanco in the latest feature film of acclaimed Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, The Good Boss. Both the title of the film...

An emblematic name for the world of documentary film in Romania, Alexandru Solomon comes to InspiraTIFF on Tuesday, June 21, and will speak with the audience, from 3PM, at TIFF Lounge (Unirii Square). The filmmaker, celebrated at this edition in the 3x3 section, will answer questions from viewers and will talk about his career as director, director of image, producer and screen...

Director Filip Jan Rymsza: “When you show something like this to the audience, you expect them to feel uncomfortable and implicitly strange” Yesterday, Mosquito State was screened at TIFF, directed by Polish Filip Jan Rymsza. The film explores the adventures of Wall Street analyst Richard Boca, as he becomes obsessed with more and more chaotic details that come into his life...

Images from inaccessible places, photos taken by Krzysztof Kieślowski himself, immersive experiences, but also emotions captured by the camera lens during the first 20 years of TIFF will be admired in the 6 exhibitions open to the public between June 17 and 26. Film lovers and photography lovers will be able to visit them, with free access, every day of the festival, at the Art...

At TIFF.21, last night, Citizen Ashe was screened at the Victoria Cinema, directed by Rex Miller and Sam Pollard. Before the screening of the documentary that follows the life of the famous sportsman and activist Arthur Ashe, a sneak peek from Nasty was projected for the first time, directed by Tudor Giurgiu and produced by Cosmin Hodor. The audience watched the fragment of the...

The 3 titles presented at TIFF (enter the void, vortex and irreversible, chronological version) are enough to penetrate the mind of a great provocative filmmaker. But beyond shock and controversy, is there enough substance in Gaspar Noé's films? The cinematographer’s works can be defined as intensely synesthetic, due to their visual and musical power. By the way, they involv...

At the height of her career, Pola Negri was the highest paid woman in the film industry. She lived in a mansion in Los Angeles that resembled the White House and set the fashion tone. That's how America knew red nail polish pedicures, fur boots and turbans. Not bad for a Polish immigrant born into poverty. She had famous lovers like Rudolf Valentino or Charlie Chaplin and s...

We live in a deeply audio-visual age. Everything happens online, we are bombarded with images, graphics, videos and other forms of content being photographed or filmed. We become customers of brands because they won us their campaign and we like how they presented themselves to us in the Facebook feed, Insta or TikTok. In this context, the need to update school programs, inc...

Make films, not war is the message of the 21st edition of TIFF, and in tune with this urge, A World beyond War - the discussion on Monday at TIFF talks, will bring to TIFF Lounge, mister Kai Brand-Jacobsen, President of the Romanian Peace Institute (PATRIR). His dialog with the public will be moderated, starting at 17:00, by Alexandra Iacob, Communications & Global impact leade...

Mihai Chirilov, artistic Director of the Transilvania International Film Festival, is the guest of Monday at InspiraTIFF. Starting at 3PM, the film critic, the festival’s selectioner from the first edition, will answer all the questions received from the audience present at TIFF Lounge (Unirii Square). In the dialog with the spectators, moderated by Adi Demian, Mihai Chirilo...

Orice, oriunde, oricând, by its original and already mega-known name Everything Everywhere All at Once, is probably the most daring and inventive film since Being John Malkovich (1999). That's 23 years of who knows who having seen the most original and innovative in terms of storytelling. It's no surprise: the two Daniels behind it, Scheinert and Kwan, took the film world by st...

In the special atmosphere of the Bánffy Castle, last night the Nosferatu Cine-concert took place, a TIFF – Goethe Institute co-production. Released just over a century ago, the film is a landmark in the history of cinema and proposes a character who later appeared in dozens, if not hundreds, of films: Dracula. For this screening, the sound fund was facilitated by composer Si...