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910 articles available in total starting from 22/05/2006. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Valentin Urziceanu's debut feature Close Enough is ready for an international release

EXCLUSIVE: Valentin Urziceanu's debut feature Close Enough is ready for an international release

The new Romanian hybrid production made of animation and live action is “a satire about cinema, music and life”  

20/07/2022 | Production | Funding | Romania

Gabriel Achim • Director of Snowing Darkness

Interview: Gabriel Achim • Director of Snowing Darkness

"As a child, I daydreamed about killing Nicolae Ceauşescu"

The Romanian director discusses the premises of probably his most personal and cryptic film to date  

18/07/2022 | /Romania

Florin Piersic Jr • Director of Nothing About Love

Interview: Florin Piersic Jr • Director of Nothing About Love

“I feel like the director’s mission is to make emotions arise”

The Romanian filmmaker talks about the lengthy creative process behind his third feature as well as the audience reactions he is hoping for  

28/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022

Ana-Maria Comănescu poised to start production on her first feature, Horia

Ana-Maria Comănescu poised to start production on her first feature, Horia

The coming-of-age road movie centres on the adventures of a teenager who runs away from home  

27/06/2022 | Production | Funding | Romania/Bulgaria/Serbia

The Transilvania Trophy goes to Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama

The Transilvania Trophy goes to Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama

All of the other awards at this year’s edition went to European productions, such as Beautiful Beings, Feature Film About Life and The Night Belongs to Lovers  

27/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022 | Awards

Octav Chelaru • Director of A Higher Law

Interview: Octav Chelaru • Director of A Higher Law

“I was interested in the struggle between freedom and our own inner voice”

The promising Romanian newcomer shares his views on religion and the law of desire in his first, audience-orientated feature  

24/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022

Ligia Ciornei • Director of Clouds of Chernobyl

Interview: Ligia Ciornei • Director of Clouds of Chernobyl

“I tried to portray the way in which Romanian society was functioning in 1986”

We spoke to the Romanian newcomer about her feature debut, which touches on the situation for pregnant women in Eastern Romania in the aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion  

23/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022

Review: Clouds of Chernobyl

Review: Clouds of Chernobyl

Ligia Ciornei’s first feature, inspired by true events, is a parable of female spiritual strength and resistance in dark times of oppression  

23/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022

Mihai Chirilov • Artistic director, Transilvania International Film Festival

Interview: Mihai Chirilov • Artistic director, Transilvania International Film Festival

“It’s inappropriate to apply political correctness to art”

Are boycotts the right path for film festivals to go down? It’s hard to find a more unambiguous answer than the one given by the artistic director, in his post ever since its first edition  

23/06/2022 | Transilvania 2022

Natalia Sinelnikova  • Director of We Might as Well Be Dead

Interview: Natalia Sinelnikova • Director of We Might as Well Be Dead

“The camera acted as an aquarium: it was static, but still dynamic and always ever so slightly distorted”

We spoke to the Berlin-based director about her tragicomedy, revolving around a community of people consumed by fear  

13/06/2022 | Tribeca 2022

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