Artur Brzozowski, the curator of the Full Moon section, talks about how TIFF has changed, the film selection process, and why he loves genre films.   Şerban Mark Pop: Let's start with your involvement in TIFF. If I'm not mistaken, this is the fifth year you're curating the Full Moon section. How have these five years been? What is your opinion on the festival's evolution?...

Transilvania Pitch Stop aims to discover and support a special selection of feature film projects, provide training and a platform for presentation and networking for selected directors and producers. This year, Transilvania Pitch Stop comes to Transilvania IFF to offer an incredible opportunity for film professionals from Romania and Moldova to be part of a customized scrip...

Darko Perić is a Serbian actor. He is best known for his role as Helsinki in the crime thriller series "La Casa de Papel" (Money Heist), which won the Emmy Award for Best Drama in 2018. He studied veterinary medicine in Romania, in Bucharest and Timișoara. In these cities, he had his first contact with the world of acting, playing roles in various short films and performances....

"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":...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...