The 12th edition of Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) will take place between May 31 and June 9 in Cluj-Napoca and, between June 19 and 23, it will be followed, by a new edition of TIFF Sibiu. The largest festival in Romania promises to conquer the audience once again. Consequently, the organizers are planning another one of their famous cultural fests, one that will definitely include marathon screenings, special retrospectives, new and unconventional sections by Mihai Chirilov, the artistic director of the festival, masterclasses, panels, exhibitions, concerts and many, many more.
TIFF 2013 will bring new editions of EducaTIFF, the educational project conceived for the elementary and middle school students, Let’s Go Digital, focused on high-schoolers with a penchant for cinema, and Transilvania Talent Lab, the training platform for young professionals and amateurs alike initiated last year.
10 For Film, the programme focused on the promotion of the new faces in the Romanian cinema, will chaperon the meeting between audience and filmmakers on the one hand and 10 actors who are already staples of the theatre but who are yet to become famous in cinema, on the other.
During TIFF 2013, the audience will be invited to a series of thrilling marathon screenings. Thus, the Japanese master of suspense, Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Tokyo Sonata), will electrify the viewers for a good 270 minutes, which is exactly the duration of the miniseries Penance/ Shokuzai. The mother of a girl killed 15 years back goes in search of the murderer and visits the four friends who witnessed the deed. The film was screened out of competition during the most recent edition of Venice Film Festival.
The Paradise trilogy by Ulrich Seidl, whose parts premiered in the competitive sections of the world's three biggest festivals, will also screen at TIFF. The protagonists of the three films are three women whose stories offer Seidl the perfect pretext to look at different worlds. In Paradise: Love (Cannes 2012), a woman goes to Kenya for sexual tourism; in Paradise: Faith (Special Jury Prize – Venice 2012), another woman starts preaching Catholicism; lastly, in Paradise: Hope (Berlin 2013), a third woman joins a weightwatchers camp.
The admirers of the yakuza films by Takeshi Kitano will certainly appreciate the marathon focusing on Outrage (2010) and Outrage Beyond, the first one's 2012 sequel. The first part, a violent foray in the world of the yakuza in which Kitano also plays one of the main characters, premiered in the official competition of Cannes Film Festival and was a huge box-office hit in Japan. The sequel premiered in Venice to enthusiastic reviews.
Another TIFF 2013 marathon focuses on the International Francophonie Day. On the 1st and 2nd of June, the audience and a jury of 5 young Cluj cinephiles will watch 6 of the French-oriented films of TIFF. The Francophonie Day will be organized in partnership with the French Institute and TV5 and it will end with the Bagdad Fantaisie cine-concert (musical score by artist Sami Pageaux-Waro and visuals from the 1924 silent classic The Thief of Bagdad by Raoul Walsh, starring Douglas Fairbanks.
The Supernova section, focused on internationally acclaimed films, will include titles such as Après mai by Olivier Assayas, a story about the sparkling 60s and 70s, winner of the Best Script award in Venice, Laurence Anyways, by Xavier Dolan, a troubling and very stylish love story between a woman and a man who wants to become a woman awarded the Best Actress award (Suzanne Clément) in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes 2012, Like Someone in Love – the strange love triangle by Abbas Kiarostami, and Foxfire, Laurent Cantet's (Palme d’Or for „Entre les murs”, 2008) adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's homonymous novel.
Additional info about the films and events of TIFF 2013 coming soon.
Transilvania Internationa Film Festival is organized by Romanian Film Promotion (APFR).
