A few of the most surprising titles from the 2020 program of the Transilvania International Film Festival can be seen online throughout Romania on the festival’s platform TIFF Unlimited (unlimited.tiff.ro). Those who cannot make it to Cluj between July 31-August 9 and those who want to continue their festival experience online will have severals new hits available to them from...
The 3X3 section of this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival celebrates three auteurs whose work is highly political, wether it in the form of black comedy, war dramas, or thrillers: Costa-Gavras, Vinko Brešan and Dušan Makavejev. In Adults in the Room (2019), renowned Greek-born French director Costa-Gavras delves into the most difficult moment in Greece’s recent...
Lights on! Fellini’s 8 ½ Art Museum, July 31-August 9 New Paul Ronald photographs from the Maraldi collection Curator: Antonio Maraldi Fellini’s extraordinary world comes to life once again through the lens of Paul Ronald, who recorded the filming of 8 ½. As the official set photographer, he took thousands of pictures of the master, Fellini himself, of the unparalle...
Young bands animate the evenings at the 2020 Transilvania International Film Festival, in a series of concerts open to all who want to discover new names and artists, and two documentaries recall the days when summer music festivals were a major destination. Wednesday, August 5, at 8:30 PM, TIFF invites audiences to meet Koszika & The HotShots, a band formed in 2011 around v...
As a result of reprogramming the Transilvania International Film Festival to run in 13 outdoors venues in and around Cluj, the Hungarian Day turns into three different Hungarian Days. Eight of the most successful films recently produced in Hungary will run between August 4-6. Thus, multiple award-winning director Attila Szász returns to TIFF with Tall Tales / Apró mesék, an...
The 19th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival will bring old restored jewels to the big screen in a series of special events. The program is available at https://tiff.ro/programTIFF2020, and tickets can be purchased from tiff.eventbook.ro and soon on TIFF’s official app. Produced during the catastrophic floods of May 1970, the Black Buffalo Water / Apa ca...
Transilvania International Film Festival’s traditional partner HBO will preview this year the first two episodes of Tuff Money / Bani negri (pentru zile albe) on Friday, August 7, at 9:30 PM at Club Transilvania. Written and directed by Daniel Sandu (One Step Behind the Seraphim / Un pas în urma Serafimilor), the series stars Alexandru Papadopol, Cristian Bota, and Medeea Marin...
The Transilvania International Film Festival (July 31 – August 9, 2020) is reconfigured to prioritize public health, safety, and social distancing by doing exclusively outdoor screenings in over 10 locations in Cluj. Safety measures will be mandatory for all TIFF crew, guests, and audience members and will be posted prominently in all locations. TIFF’s 19th edition opens Fri...
Cluj turns into a charming, old-school Felliniesque set, populated by seductive characters and surprises, in the image campaign for the 19th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (July 31-August 9). Classic scenes inspired by the great Italian auteur Federico Fellini are adapted to the local context and spiced up with Transylvanian humor in a story of creative...
Dedicated to first-time or sophomore feature film directors, the TIFF 2020 Official Competition features 12 provocative stories and just as many original approaches competing for the Transilvania Trophy. Eight of them are feature film debuts for directors who are just starting out or have already made a name for themselves as series or documentary film directors. TIFF audiences...
Richer than ever in premieres, the Romanian film program of the 19th Transilvania International Film Festival includes a record 21 features and 16 shorts which will screen in the presence of filmmakers in Cluj-Napoca between July 31 and August 9. 15 of these will have their Romanian premieres, while 7 will have their world premieres in the Romanian Days section. The Roma...
Ajuns la cea de-a 13-a ediție, UNDERCLOUD - Festival de Teatru Independent de Orice, primul festival de teatru independent din România va avea loc anul acesta în perioada 11-18 august, în aer liber, la Muzeul Țăranului Român. Timp de 8 zile, spectatorii vor avea șansa de a vedea o selecție a celor mai îndrăgite spectacole UNDERCLOUD, respectând măsurile impuse pentru prevenirea...
Vineri, 3 iulie, la ora 20.00 (ora României) avem plăcerea să vă invităm la o întâlnire online cu doi documentariști majori ai zilelor noastre, Claire Simon și Ross McElwee, care vor fi, de asemenea, invitații speciali ai ediției cu numărul 13 a festivalului One World Romania (ce se va desfășura între 21 și 30 august).Ambii autori, deși vin din zone geografice și culturale dife...