Ten projects in development will be presented to industry professionals (producers, distributors, sales agents, representatives of film funds & more) at the Transilvania Pitch Stop (TPS) this year. The 8th edition of the program includes the presentation of projects in front of potential partners and financiers on the 29th of July, during Transilvania International Film Festiva...

Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23 – August 1) launches the Drama Room, a program dedicated to drama series creation and financing, aiming at building capacity locally and within the covered region. The first edition of Drama Room will be a hybrid event and will take place between July 26-28, 2021. It will consist of a series of online tutoring sessions in col...

11 projects were selected this year for the InfiniTIFF program dedicated to artists, entrepreneurs, creatives, and cultural operators working in new —VR, AR, XR, and interactive — media. During the July 27-28 TIFF industry events, participants will attend a training led by Peter Barta, who created The Long Run Method, an entrepreneurship education and training program. Ov...

Invited on the jury that will decide the winner of the Transilvania Trophy, the famous Mexican screenwriter and author Guillermo Arriaga, known for the 2006 Oscar-nominated Babel or for the best screenplay  winner at Cannes The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada will come to Cluj with the Director of the Film Department of the Cannes Film Festival Christian Jeune, Belfilms fou...

A major figure of Hungarian cinema, director István Szabó comes to Romania as a special guest of the 20th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival. Over the ten days of the festival, he will be joined by tens of other foreign and Romanian guests, including writer Guillermo Arriaga, Director of the Film Department of the Cannes Film Festival Christian Jeune, Israe...

TIFF Moments by Nicu Cherciu Eroilor Boulevard pedestrian area | July 7 – August 1 If TIFF is memorable, it is also because of the photographs Nicu Cherchiu took over two decades. Stars, audience members, unique cinematic or musical moments remain suspended in time by Nicu’s talent. Mirrors of Brâncuși Art Museum | July 23 – August 1 An exhibition that invites vi...

Ciné-concert: MÚM plays Menschen am Sonntag (Iceland) Saturday, July 24, 9:45 PM, Bánffy Castle in Bonțida Electronic rhythms, ambient sound, and indie-pop experiments blend together in the music of the Icelandic group MÚM. Their projects have been around the world, mesmerizing audiences with their hypnotic sounds, which transcend conventional genres. Saturday, July 24, a...

The works of four emblematic auteurs will be shown at the Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23-August 1, Cluj-Napoca) in the festival’s beloved retrospective sections: Close-up Éric Rohmer presents eight of the lodestar films of one of the most influential filmmakers in history, while the 3x3 section revisits the works of three major directors: Luis García Berlanga...

Binge watchers will be able to discover new productions in a cinema setting at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Coming Up Next is a new section which proposes eight series and miniseries, all Romanian premieres, two of them shown in their entirety as marathons. One pilot episode from the new HBO Romania series  Ruxx will have its preview screening at Transilvania I...

Two Romanian films stand for the Transilvania Trophy: Eugen Jebeleanu’s debut Poppy Field tells the story of a gendarme whose professional life is threatened by his relationship with another man; Bogdan George Apetri’s thriller Unidentified follows a police investigation that throws its anti-hero protagonist in a dark, violent world. Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When...

The three films representing Romania in Cannes will all have their national premiere at Transilvania IFF. Included in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Radu Munteanu’s Întregalde tells the thrilling and captivating story about the limits of generosity. And the two shorts, Andreea Borțun’s When Night Meets Dawn and Andrei Epure’s Intercom 15 / Interfon 15, selected in the Quinzain...

International star Sergei Polunin, widely considered as the most talented dancer of his generation, makes his first Romanian appearance as a special guest of the 20th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23-August 1). Fans will get the chance to see him on Thursday, July 29, at 8:30 PM at the Bánffy Castle in Bonțida, in the special event Sergei Polunin...

The mysterious apparition of a monolith disturbs the quiet existence of a Dacian community in the image campaign for the 20th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23-August 1, 2021). The promo clip, signed by the British-Romanian duo Anton and Damian Groves and based on a concept created by the festival team, re-enacts man’s bizarre first encounter over...