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Transilvania 2016 / Competition

9 articles available in total starting from 29/05/2016. Last article published on 03/06/2016.

Remainder: Reconstructing memory

Remainder: Reconstructing memory

Video artist Omer Fast has adapted Tom McCarthy’s reality-bending thriller, and the result is screening in competition at the TIFF  

03/06/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

Fado: Jealousy and the tidal wave

Fado: Jealousy and the tidal wave

In a very raw manner, German director Jonas Rothlaender tells a distressing story about a couple drowning in obsession  

02/06/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

The Open Door: The fascination of motherhood

The Open Door: The fascination of motherhood

Marina Seresesky’s first feature was well received in the Transilvania IFF competition, and is a possible contender for the Audience Award  

01/06/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

Tikkun: The nature of faith and desire

Tikkun: The nature of faith and desire

Avishai Sivan's minimalist and enigmatic tale follows a Yeshiva student in Jerusalem struggling with the strict orthodoxy rites that have ruled his life  

30/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

FILM FOCUS: As I Open My Eyes

FILM FOCUS: As I Open My Eyes

In the debut work by Leyla Bouzid, a young Tunisian singer courageously challenges government censorship, at the dawn of the Arab Spring  

30/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

FILM FOCUS: Sparrows

FILM FOCUS: Sparrows

Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson has made an unhurried chronicle of the transition from adolescence to adulthood, which is much harsher and more brutal than it first appears  

30/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

Svetla Tsotsorkova: "The audience has lost their trust in the films we make here”

Svetla Tsotsorkova: "The audience has lost their trust in the films we make here”

The director reveals the production challenges of Thirst, which amazes with the compelling way in which it uses a remote place in rural Bulgaria in order to tell a story about old and new  

29/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

Thirst: An aesthetic achievement

Thirst: An aesthetic achievement

An assured direction, likeable characters and the creation of a convincing microcosm meet in the first feature by Bulgarian filmmaker Svetla Tsotsorkova  

29/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

Where There is Shade: A visceral and liberating scream

Where There is Shade: A visceral and liberating scream

French filmmaker Nathan Nicholovich’s engaging and powerful second feature film is a sincere, cruel even, portrait of a person unlike any other  

29/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Competition

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