21.03.2012 02:00
An old friend of the festival, Sebastián Lelio, will return this year to Cluj within the framework of TIFF 2012 with his recent film El Año del Tigre/The Year of the Tiger
The film, screened last year in the competition of the Locarno Film Festival, is an “X-ray” of the city of Chile after the devastating earthquake in 2010. The main character is a prisoner who wanders about the country looking for his family, after the prison building collapsed turning him into a fugitive.
Sebastián Lelio is a habitué of TIFF: he won the Transylvania Trophy in 2007, with the film La Sagrada Familia. In 2008 he returned to TIFF as a member of the jury and in 2010 he won the FIPRESCI Prize for Navidad/ În Ziua de Crăciun/ On Christmas Day.
