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...
I don't know what happens to others when they turn 50, but for me all the months between June 2022 and today have been an emotional and intense rollercoaster. It was probably one of the best years I've ever had. I finished editing Sibiu 89 which in the meantime became Freedom. I filmed for Nasty, the documentary about the life and career of Ilie Nastase, legendary tennis player...
Last year, on the eve of the festival, I gave an interview to Cineuropa. The context was a fraught one, and the questions didn't bypass the tension, invoking head-on the issue of political correctness in cinema. In the months that followed, some congratulated me with a knowing air, almost in whispers, as if it were a secret to be kept to ourselves. Others were surprised that th...
MMXX, the Surprise film of TIFF.22 directed by Cristi Puiu, will be screened Saturday, June 17, at 3:30PM at the Student House. Inspired by the pandemic experience from 2020, the film cosists of four short moments in time that are capturing the wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history. Oana Pfifer, a young therapist visibly distracted by so...
Timothy Spall in conversation with Mihai Chirilov - Known to younger generations for his role as the wizard Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter fantasy franchise, Timothy Spall has often collaborated with director Mike Leigh, winning the best male performance award at the Cannes Film Festival for Mr. Turner (2014). His latest film, Nordic Comfort, opens the 22nd edition of Tran...
Doing a Sidney Lumet selection without missing on anything is a difficult endeavour. Each of his films addresses one of the major dilemmas of present day: corruption, alienation, negotiating truth... All of them hurt deeply and heal at the same time. They have this quality of being two opposing things at once: problem and solution, life and death. Lumet looks at angry people, u...
Would Godart have found out about it, before he decided to leave us, last September? Would he have found out that students of Ecole des Beaux-Arts from Marseille, during one of Didier Morin’s lectures on Le Mépris / Contempt, rushed to unplug the projector while the Brigitte Bardot scene where she rhetorically asks her partner ‘Do you think I have a cute ass? And my breasts. Yo...