This year Mexican-born director, screenwriter and producer Michel Franco will be at Transilvania IFF.22 as part of the jury for the official competition, and his latest film, Sundown (2021), reuniting Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg, is part of the festival programme.  Michel Franco's name carries weight in the contemporary cinema world due the thematic polymorphism he del...

This year, TIFF is one of the founding partners of SMART7, an initiative aimed at promoting innovation in European cinema and enhancing the audience experience. SMART7 is a network of European film festivals dedicated to the development of the cultural industry and the festival field. It aims to provide a meeting space for works by new European filmmakers within an itinerant...

Based on the autobiographical book "All or Nothing" (2015) by rapper Xatar, "Rheingold" is the film of all films. What director Fatih Akin manages to achieve seems impossible, especially considering its nearly three-hour duration, which feels like a fresh bullet fired from an angry boy's pistol. If only his father hadn't left, nothing would have happened. Or perhaps if his moth...

After a long line of films debated left and right that culminated in the biblical allegory mother! in 2017, Darren Aronofsky could only return with another controversial film. Adapted from a play by Samuel D. Hunter, who also signed the screenplay, The Whale tells the story of a man suffering from morbid obesity who, in the last days of his life, is trying to get closer to his...

We're looking at hybrids between barely visible fiction and classic documentary - made up of archive footage, interviews and historical re-enactments. This new type of documentary does not claim to cover all sides of a truth, but focuses on just one of them. In abandoning the search for an indisputable truth, the documentary genre thus frees itself from the reins and, in this h...

British actor Timothy Spall received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Transilvania IFF.22 Opening Gala. The audience then watched the Icelandic comedy Nordic Comfort on the big screen in Piața Unirii. Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, the film, starring Timothy Spall, tells the story of a diverse group of people with a chronic fear of flying. On Saturday, June 10...

James (Alexander Skarsgård) and Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are on vacation in an exceptional resort. He, a lesser-known writer, she, the daughter of the publishing house owner. Their relationship seems inertial. Maybe they are living the best life, or maybe they just don't get along like they used to. Coincidentally, they come across Gabi (Mia Goth), an angelic girl who declares he...

FRIDAY, JUNE 16 The screening of the film Freedom, scheduled for 9:45 PM in Unirii Square, will be moved in two different locations: Student House at 9:15PM Hungarian Opera House at 9:45PM The screening of Afire scheduled for 9:15PM, at the Student House will be moved at 11:00AM, tomorrow, 17.06, at Cinema Florin Piersic  The screening of Last transhumance, s...

Timothy Leonard Spall was born on February 27, 1957 and grew up in London in a modest family. His father worked at the post office and his mother was a hairdresser. His passion for acting captured him since childhood, when he joined the troupe of the National Youth Theatre. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, later becoming an Associate Member. Currently enjoy...

Today, June 10, at 8:30 pm, at the Banffy Castle in Bonțida, Swedish-English singer Jay-Jay Johanson will have his first concert since the release of his latest album. Banffy Castle is known today for two things: festivals and an electrical atmosphere. Tonight, the two will be combined by Jay-Jay Johanson, often called one of the most influential figures in the field of trip...

This year, TIFF donates 10,000 euros and replaces the red carpet at the Opening Gala with a symbolic, turquoise one. The color change is a manifesto for changing a dramatic statistic that concerns us: Romania has the highest premature mortality from breast cancer and cervical cancer in Europe. Despite progress in medicine, Romania has the highest premature mortality from bre...

Lars von Trier's latest achievement combines surrealism with delicacy and cosmic horror. This year at TIFF we have the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the latest achievement of Lars von Trier. It's called The Kingdom: Exodus / Riget: Exodus ( 2022 ) and it's a 5-episode surreal series, which will be presented in an unprecedented 5-hour marathon today, June 10 at Cinema A...

The famous Romanian director, described by Newsweek as “one of the boldest and most challenging figures on the international scene”, would have turned 100 this year. Born 100 years ago on July 7, the multidisciplinary Liviu Ciulei, who would be called by Newsweek “one of the boldest and most challenging figures on the international scene”, directed theatre and film, was an a...