A few months after Radu Jude’s Silver Berlin Bear for best screenplay in Berlin for “Kontinental ‘25,” Romania’s largest film festival, the Transilvania International Film Festival, is here to help take the temperature of the country’s national cinema. Jude’s latest, as well as the director’s Andy Warhol-inspired “Sleep #2,” spearhead the Romanian Days section of TIFF, taking place in Cluj-Napoca over June 13-22.
Jude’s two films join another 14 Romanian features at this year’s festival, as well as 25 short films. Standouts include Bogdan Mureșanu’s Orizzonti award winning “The New Year That Never Came” and the latest by renowned auteur Andrei Ujică, “Twst – Things We Said Today.”
Speaking with Variety ahead of the festival, artistic director Mihai Chirilov says: “Revisiting the past is always a winner” with Romanian cinema, as proven by both Mureșanu’s lauded feature debut and Jude’s latest comedy. But,...
Jude’s two films join another 14 Romanian features at this year’s festival, as well as 25 short films. Standouts include Bogdan Mureșanu’s Orizzonti award winning “The New Year That Never Came” and the latest by renowned auteur Andrei Ujică, “Twst – Things We Said Today.”
Speaking with Variety ahead of the festival, artistic director Mihai Chirilov says: “Revisiting the past is always a winner” with Romanian cinema, as proven by both Mureșanu’s lauded feature debut and Jude’s latest comedy. But,...
- 6/13/2025
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses,” a Paraguayan-set story of sisterhood and entrapment, won the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival’s top prize Saturday, capping a week of honoring “films that dare,” in the words of its artistic chief Mihai Chirilov.
Crowds filled the ornate, 19th-century national theater in Cluj for the awards gala simulcast Saturday, marking the close of Romania’s top international art film fest, which this year focused on presenting fresh perspectives and provocative work in half a dozen sections, along with industry tech workshops, sessions on micro-budget filmmaking and popular screenings of archival films, often with live orchestral accompaniment.
The awards gala honored Hlynur Palmason with the director prize for Icelandic-Danish sibling rivalry story “Winter Brothers” while all three actors from U.K.-Spanish fertility triangle tale “Anchor and Hope,” Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin and David Verdaguer, shared the best performance prize.
Asghar Yousefinejad’s “The Home,” an...
Crowds filled the ornate, 19th-century national theater in Cluj for the awards gala simulcast Saturday, marking the close of Romania’s top international art film fest, which this year focused on presenting fresh perspectives and provocative work in half a dozen sections, along with industry tech workshops, sessions on micro-budget filmmaking and popular screenings of archival films, often with live orchestral accompaniment.
The awards gala honored Hlynur Palmason with the director prize for Icelandic-Danish sibling rivalry story “Winter Brothers” while all three actors from U.K.-Spanish fertility triangle tale “Anchor and Hope,” Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin and David Verdaguer, shared the best performance prize.
Asghar Yousefinejad’s “The Home,” an...
- 6/3/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
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