Eight of the 12 titles in the Official Competition for first and second films and nine of the ten documentaries in the What's Up, Doc? Competition of the 22nd Transilvania International Film Festival (9-18 June) are European productions or co-productions. The jury that is tasked with deciding on the recipients of the prizes for both fiction features and documentaries consists of Mexican director Michel Franco, Serbian actor Darko Perić, British actor-director Harry Macqueen, Romanian actress Judith State and Trieste Film Festival director Nicoletta Romeo.

Moldova is entering the Transilvania IFF competition for the first time with the clever farce Carbon [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Besides participating in this year’s Nordic Focus, Sweden and Denmark are in competition with the family portraits Family Time [+lee también:
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entrevista: Christian Lollike
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ficha de la película] by David Kapac and Andrija Mardesic ventures deeper into the genre, to the extent that it makes the audience truly uncomfortable. Finally, Czech director Adam Sedlák returns to TIFF with his second outing, BANGER. [+lee también:
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The European titles in the What's Up, Doc? Competition include two Romanian co-productions: The Land You Belong by Elena Rebeca Carini, who was adopted from Romania by an Italian couple in the 1990s; and the provocative hybrid film Anhell69 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Fresh perspectives on masculinity and femininity can be found in the Estonian movie Smoke Sauna Sisterhood [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], and Raphaël Mathié’s The Outliers, both of which see elements of fiction playing a special role. Perhaps the most highly anticipated title in the programme is the Swiss film Like an Island [+lee también:
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The jury for the Romanian Days sidebar – consisting of vice-president of the French Union of Film Critics Charles Tesson, coordinator of the D'A Film Lab Barcelona Pedro Andrade, and Slovak producer and film promoter Katarina Tomkova – will hand out the Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Debut and Best Short Film. The selection includes Paul Negoescu’s black comedy Men of Deeds [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mihai Mincan
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entrevista: Bogdan Mirica
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After winning the FIPRESCI Award in the Focus section of the Berlinale, Vlad Petri's hybrid film Between Revolutions [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], a story about love and prejudice in contemporary Romania by couple Daniel and Alexandra Bărnuți; and Blue Planet by Daniel Sărăcuț, a bittersweet chronicle of the rock band Dio Family.