The film was also awarded Best Cinematography with 3,500 EUR in postproduction services offered by Cinelabs Romania.
The ten-day festival was packed with films, music concerts, DVD and book launchings, rain, sun and a friendly atmosphere that charmed guests, among them Stephen Frears and Jiri Menzel.
Rikiya Imaizumi was awarded Best Director and a 5,000 EUR prize from BCR for I Catch a Terrible Cat/Koppidoi neko. The Special Jury Award and 5,000 EUR from Vodafone went to So Much Water/Tanta agua by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge, a coproduction from Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, and Germany. Denmark’s Gustav Dyekjær Giese was awarded Best Actor with a prize of 1,000 EUR by Vitrina Advertising for Michael Noer's Northwest/Nordvest. The Competition jury was composed of György Pálfi, Frédéric Boyer, Cristi Puiu, Lynda Myles and Franziska Petri.
The jury for the Romanian Days feature competition (Mona Nicoară, Yael Shuv and Evgeny Gusyatinskiy) awarded the Best Romanian Feature and 5,000 EUR in postproduction services from Abis Studio to the feature documentary Here..., I Mean There/Aici... adică acolo by Laura Căpăţână-Juller, produced by HiFilm Production.
The Romanian Days Award for Short Film along with 1,500 EUR and a filming day at MediaPro Studios decided by jury members Orsolya Nagypal, Boryana Kostova and Abdurahman Oner went to another film produced by Hi Film Productions, Shadow of a Cloud/Ca o umbră de nor by Radu Jude. The Romanian Days Award For Best Debut and 1,000 EUR from URSUS went to A Month in Thailand/O lună în Thailanda by Paul Negoescu, produced again by HiFilm Production.
Andrei Tănase's Claudiu and the Fish/Claudiu şi crapii and Cecilia Felmeri's The Pill of Happiness/Pastila fericirii received Special Mentions at Romanian Days.
The FIPRESCI Award went to The Cleaner/El limpiador by Adrian Saba (Peru), and the Audience Award went to Wadjda by Haifaa Al-Mansour (Saudi Arabia/Germany). Actress Luminiţa Gheorghiu received the Excellence Award, and Jiri Menzel, Stephen Frears and Romanian composer Adrian Enescu received Lifetime Achievement Awards.
The Award for the Best Film in the Shadows Shorts Competition decided by a jury composed of Freddy Bozo, Pau Teixidor and Tomi Malki a.k.a. Malakias went to Death of a Shadow by Tom van Avermaet (Belgium).
The awards of the National Screenwriting Competition Organized by HBO Romania in partnership with Transilvania IFF were announced at the gala held on 8 June. The HBO Award for Best Feature Screenplay (3,000 USD) went to Toma Bogdan for Reparaţia, the HBO Award for Best Short Film Screenplay (1,500 USD) went to Radu Bărbulescu for Dispozitivul 0068, and the HBO Award for Best Documentary Screenplay (2,000 USD) went to Marius Iacob for Despre starea de bine.
Apart from films screeened in various sections, TIFF 2013 brought new editions of the educational project for elementary and middle school students EducaTIFF and the project Let’s Go Digital, focused on high-schoolers. It also saw the second editions of the training platform for young professionals and amateurs Transilvania Talent Lab and 10 For Film, a programme to promote new faces in Romanian cinema.
TIFF travels from Cluj-Napoca to Sibiu where it will screen another selection, more audience oriented, 19 - 23 June 2013. TIFF is presented by Romanian Film Promotion.
