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Transilvania 2016


52 articles available in total starting from 11/05/2016. Last article published on 12/06/2017.

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

FILM FOCUS: Heil

FILM FOCUS: Heil

The latest film by Dietrich Brügemann, director of the Silver Bear-winning Stations of the Cross, is a breathless farce about the absurdity of neo-Nazis and other ultra-right-wing groups  

30/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Unirii Square

Remember: Chasing memories

Remember: Chasing memories

Atom Egoyan delivers a cinematic pursuit that sometimes fails to hit its target, but which is driven primarily by an extraordinary performance by Christopher Plummer  

30/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Supernova

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

Tomasz Wasilewski: "Communism is one of the worst things that happened to the world”

Tomasz Wasilewski: "Communism is one of the worst things that happened to the world”

Polish filmmaker Tomasz Wasilewski discusses his award-winning film United States of Love, the plights of communism and the importance of women  

29/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Supernova

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

United States of Love: The antibody in Poland

United States of Love: The antibody in Poland

In a post-Cold War Poland under the Solidarity movement, Tomasz Wasilewski follows the crossed paths of four women who express their desire for love through shame  

29/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | Supernova

FILM FOCUS: Peace to Us in our Dreams

FILM FOCUS: Peace to Us in our Dreams

The eighth feature film by Sharunas Bartas leads us on an intimate, contemplative journey - included in TIFF's special focus on the Lithuanian filmmaker  

28/05/2016 | Transilvania 2016 | 3x3 Sharunas Bartas

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