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Romanian film funding system works at the moment on the basis of the cinema law. The films which are programmed in this festival, as well as the films that have been presented and awarded during the past few years in prestigious international festivals, were all produced with the support of the same law: O.G 39 / 2005.
On May 17th 2010, the Romanian Senate voted, in majority, a new law initiative coming from the social-democrate senator, Sergiu ...
Mundane History wins the Transilvania Trophy
Thai film Mundane History is the winner of the 2010 Transilvania Trophy. Director Anocha Suwichakornpong received the honours on the stage of the National Theater in Cluj-Napoca at the Award Ceremony of the 9th edition of the Transilvania IFF, held on Saturday evening, June 5th. The jury characterized her film appreciated “its unconventional structure and eclectic use of images in this moving story, showing the underlying themes of how pain...
Radu Gabrea and his newest movie at TIFF 2010
The last weekend of the festival will be a delight for the cinema lovers.
The most recent production from director Radu Gabrea, The Red Gloves, will be screening at the Republica Cinema. The action of the film is set in 1975, when the communist regime in Romania began a large-scale programme of arrests and trials designed to quash any revolutionary initiative. One of the victims is Felix Goldschmidt, a young man of Saxon origin and a student at ...
Dorina Lazăr in Angela Goes On
Saturday, at Arta Cinema, from 5:30 pm, the cinema lovers may enjoy another special screening: Angela Goes On, directed by Lucian Bratu. Released in 1981 and starring Dorina Lazăr, one of the greatest Romanian actresses and the recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award at Transilvania IFF 2010, the film tells the love story between a taxi driver lady, with an ordinary life, and a petroleum worker who comes to the capital city for his studies....
Masterclass Oana Păunescu
On Saturday, the 5th of June, at 11:00 am, TIFFashion invites the people of Cluj to attend a masterclass about fashion and film held by Oana Păunescu, film costume designer and art director of the DADA brand. ’For me fashion has always been a challenge. I feel that I am rather a painter of costumes, than a designer. Although most of the people consider them to be complementary, for me these two worlds, fashion and film, are extremely diffe...