Suspense takes your breath away, makes your palms sweat, and pushes you on the edge of your seat. Is this a panic attack? No, it’s the experience of seeing a good horror screened in one of the darkest sections of the Transilvania International Film Festival: Shadows, which brings to Cluj 12 intense features and just as many shorts produced over the past year. The section is pre...

by Laurențiu Paraschiv | AperiTIFF After circling the world through Montreal, Buenos-Aires, Franfurt, Moscow, Rotterdam, or Paris, the Amateur Film Factory comes to Romania for the first time at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Created by celebrated French auteur Michel Gondry, this revolutionary interactive installation was conceived to cultivate, develop, and...

The most anticipated Romanian premieres and the most popular national productions of the year come to the 18th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival The Romanian Days section will screen 37 productions: 15 feature-length films, many of them debuts, and 22 shorts. The filmmakers will join hundreds of industry professionals in Cluj for a Romanian cinema marat...

La aniversarea celor 18 ani de la prima ediție, Festivalul Internațional de Film Transilvania celebrează, printr-o serie de proiecții și evenimente speciale, cinematografia română și succesele profesioniștilor din domeniu, aici și peste hotare. Sute de invitați vor veni la Cluj între 31 mai și 9 iunie, pentru a-și întâlni publicul și pentru a fi prezenți la numeroasele premiere...

infiniTIFF revine cu o a 3-a ediție, programată în perioada 1-8 Iunie 2019, în cadrul Festivalului Internațional de Film Transilvania, iar anul acesta secțiunea este dedicată viitorului conținutului audiovizual. Împreună cu invitați internaționali, încercăm să definim modul în care transformările digitale și tehnologiile disruptive ale momentului influențează nu doar mobilitate...

Film Food returns to the 18th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival to surprise cinephiles and foodies alike with delicious tales and juicy details from Europe’s best-known restaurants. This year’s selection presents ancient recipes revisited, star ingredients, and secrets of world famous chefs. Screenings at Sapientia will be followed at Bricks by dinners wit...

The thematic section of the 18th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival will address religion and spirituality head-on, in all their social and political ramifications. Nine titles which represent nine different visions of faith will compete for the FIPRESCI Award this year. The Innocent, by Swiss writer-director Simon Jaquemet, about the fragility of spirit...

One of the most acclaimed and beloved Romanian film and theater actors, the incomparable Marcel Iureș will be celebrated a the 18th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival. The Closing Gala on June 8 will invite him on the stage where he made his debut 40 years ago, the National Theater in Cluj, to receive the Excellence Award for his impressive career. Te...

Famous actor, director and producer Nicolas Cage comes to Cluj as a special guest at the 18th edition of the Transilvania International Festival, between May 31 and June 2. The American star will receive the Transilvania Trophy for Special Contribution to World Cinema in a special event on Saturday, June 1, in the Unirii Square. After that, his fans will see the action thriller...

The latest titles coming straight from Cannes, as well as real-life stories and strong social issue films will feature prominently at the 18th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania’s largest film event. Antonio Banderas masterfully inhabits Pedro Almodóvar in Pain and Glory, the latest film from the winner of over 130 major festival awards, as well...

Enigmatic, daring, and spiritually charged, contemporary Chinese cinema comes to the foreground of the 18th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival, which features an eclectic selection of Chinese titles screened for the first time in Romania — both recent award-winning productions and restored classics. Among the indisputable highlights is Zhang Yimou’s 2018...

Dedicated to first- or second-time feature film directors, the Official Competition of the 2019 Transilvania International Film Festival includes 12 unique, strong, and provocative works from among which the official jury will select the winner of the Transilvania Trophy. “All if fair in love and cinema” emerges as the theme for this year’s selection, which focuses on human rel...

TIFF.18 opens with one of the most anticipated Romanian premieres of the year: Parking - the first Romanian film almost entirely produced abroad (in Spain). The first screening will take place on Friday, May 31, in Unirii Square, where director and TIFF President Tudor Giurgiu will be joined by the following actors: Mihai Smarandache, Carmen Florescu and Erzsébet Fülöp, writer...

Saturday, June 1, 9:30 PM, Bánffy Castle in Bonțida | Tickets: bit.ly/2Pt3IBt Fans of Li’l Quinquin surely remember his antics in a small town in Northern France, as well as the investigations of ridiculous commander Van der Weyden. Folowing the success of P'tit Quinquin/ Li’l Quinquin, presented at TIFF 2015 shortly after its Cannes premiere, Bruno Dumont brings back hi...

A sensational cine-concert brings legendary guitarist Gary Lucas back to Romania A sensational cine-concert brings legendary guitarist Gary Lucas back to Romania, following the success of his TIFF 2010 live accompaniament for R. George Melford’s 1931 Dracula. This time he will present a series of original pieces inspired by Wu Yonggang’s 1934 celebrated silent classic The Go...