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14 Jun 2023

Casablanca

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." It's Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the woman Rick (Humphrey Bogart) loved years ago in Paris, who happens to enter his bar in Casablanca. The pianist Sam (Dooley Wilson), a mutual friend from their past life, is shocked to see her. Ilsa asks him to play the song they both associate with, "As Time Goes By":...

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14 Jun 2023

Geoffrey Rush masterclass for actors and students

Geoffrey Rush is the actor who has amazed the world with his versatility in accepting incredible roles that he has portrayed in films that have become international cinematic masterpieces. He is a symbolic figure in the field of acting, thanks to his impressive ways of embodying characters that have endured in the memory of audiences until today – and will inevitably continue t...

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13 Jun 2023

Patrick and the Whale

We are so busy looking at the sky and waiting for signs from there that we forget how much we still have to discover and understand on this planet. It took filmmaker Craig Foster a year of his life to track an octopus to understand that it's possible to connect with something that not only doesn't speak our language but lives in an environment alien to us. Patrick and the Whale...

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13 Jun 2023

Men of Deeds

Bordering between drama and satire, Paul Negoescu's new film seems to have no obvious counterpart in the local cinematic tradition. This probably comes from Paul's directorial personality, simultaneously playful and solemn, funny and serious. Men of Deeds talks about a lot of things, but not about nice people, it seems. They're simply not to be found. The story is full of petty...

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13 Jun 2023

Masterclass with Michel Franco

Mexican director and producer Michel Franco, known for his film After Lucia, winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, as well as for Sundown, which is premiering at Transilvania IFF.22, will hold a masterclass in directing for film students in Cluj-Napoca. Michel Franco's notoriety is due to his authentic style, oriented towards a specific nich...

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13 Jun 2023

Seven directors from Cluj in the final of the Local Competition at TIFF.22.

For over 10 years, TIFF has been promoting and awarding filmmakers from Cluj, giving them the opportunity to showcase their latest productions on the big screen as part of the Local Competition. This year, seven out of the 31 submitted short films have been selected as finalists. "30.03" (dir. Ruxandra Bratfalean-Igna) is a portrayal of memories leading up to the death of a...

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12 Jun 2023

TIFF.22 brings TV Series to the big screen

Foreign television series have become increasingly popular in recent years, and in the midst of the American screenwriters' strike, their popularity is gaining even more momentum. TIFF is presenting eight series from around the world this year, which are lesser-known or not yet available for streaming in Romania but deserve an audience as large as the current trending titles. A...

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12 Jun 2023

Michel Franco - a cinema of authenticity

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...

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12 Jun 2023

The Smart7 competition at TIFF 2023

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...

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12 Jun 2023

Rheingold

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...

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11 Jun 2023

The Whale

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...

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11 Jun 2023

The WHAT'S UP, DOC? section features ten debuts that break with the documentary genre conventions

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...

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11 Jun 2023

Masterclass: Timothy Spall in conversation with Mihai Chirilov

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...