Le Festival international de Transylvanie annonce les titres de sa compétition officielle
par Mariana Hristova
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After unveiling the rich and much-anticipated Romanian Days programme (see the news), the Transilvania International Film Festival (23 July-1 August) has just made public its selection for the Official Competition as well. All included titles are Romanian premieres, and nine of them are feature debuts.
Two of the Romanian films to be shown within the Romanian Days sidebar will be throwing their hats in the ring for the Transilvania Trophy, too: Eugen Jebeleanu’s LGBT debut drama Poppy Field [+lire aussi :
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interview : Eugen Jebeleanu
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fiche film] (Romania/Latvia/Czech Republic), which is his second feature.
Among the debuting contenders are Greek director Christos Nikou’s apocalyptic Apples [+lire aussi :
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interview : Christos Nikou
fiche film] (Greece/Poland/Slovenia), initially presented at Transilvania Pitch Stop, while also being backed by Cate Blanchett as an executive producer and later being submitted as the Greek Oscar entry; Iuli Gerbase’s claustrophobic The Pink Cloud (Brazil), which premiered at Sundance and won the Grand Prix at the Sofia International Film Festival; Marat Sargsyan’s war drama The Flood Won't Come [+lire aussi :
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interview : Marat Sargsyan
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interview : Daria Woszek
fiche film] by Daria Woszek, which triumphed at the Gijón International Film Festival; and the Indian flick Pebbles by PS Vinothraj, which is based on a true story and won the Tiger Award at the latest International Film Festival Rotterdam. There are some excellent choices among the second features as well, including Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze’s atmospheric What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alexandre Koberidze
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interview : Lili Horvat
interview : Natasa Stork
fiche film], first presented in competition in the 17th Giornate degli Autori at Venice. The remaining titles in the competition are That Was Life [+lire aussi :
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interview : Damián París et Rosa Garcí…
interview : David Martín de los Santos
fiche film] by David Martín de los Santos (Spain/Belgium), The Last Bath [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by David Bonneville (Portugal/France) and The Whaler Boy [+lire aussi :
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interview : Philipp Yuryev
fiche film] by Philipp Yuryev (Russia/Poland/Belgium).
This year’s jury consists of five members: Mexican screenwriter, author, producer and Oscar nominee Guillermo Arriaga; executive director of the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory; American actor, director and producer Scott Coffey (Inland Empire [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]); and Romanian actress Maria Popistașu, who is in Radu Muntean’s latest movie, Întregalde [+lire aussi :
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interview : Radu Muntean
fiche film], set to be presented in the Directors’ Fortnight at the imminent Cannes Film Festival, as well as appearing in key Romanian New Wave films, such as Tuesday, After Christmas [+lire aussi :
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interview : Radu Muntean
fiche film] and Love Sick. The fifth member of the jury is yet to be confirmed.
The Transilvania International Film Festival will open on 23 July with the spicy sex comedy The People Upstairs [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cesc Gay
fiche film] by Catalonian director Cesc Gay and will continue unspooling until 1 August.
(Traduit de l'anglais)
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