22 features and shorts in TIFF’s Romanian Days
- The popular sidebar will be screening Romania’s newest and finest film productions
The 13th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (30 May-8 June) will screen 22 new Romanian productions in its traditional Romanian Days sidebar. Twelve features and eight short films will compete for awards, while two other feature films will screen out of competition. Four of the films are world premieres.
Nicolae Mărgineanu has just finished production for his White Gate, a period drama set to feature in the sidebar. The film is about two young men who are sent to a labour camp after trying to flee the country in 1949, during the first years of the Communist regime. Corneliu Gheorghiţă will make a return to TIFF with his second feature, The Crypt, about a French businessman (Serge Riaboukine) trapped in a courtyard in a deserted neighbourhood of a Romanian provincial town.
A Last Year in 114 Minutes marks the feature debut of visual artist Daniel Djamo and chronicles the last year in his grandmother's life. "This daring, intense and heartbreaking documentary is my personal discovery within this year's Romanian Days selection," said TIFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov in a press release.
Among the competitors vying for awards are Igor Cobileanski’s The Unsaved [+see also:
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interview: Andrei Gruzsniczki
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film profile], the only Romanian feature selected for the international competition. The sidebar also features Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Second Game [+see also:
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The awards will be announced on 7 June.
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