Bulgarian actors Monika Naydenova and Alexander Benev received a Special Mention for their acting in Thirst / Jajda by Svetla Tsotsorkova. Gabriel Achim’s independent feature The Last Day / Ultima zi was awarded Best Feature Film in the Romanian Days.
The special guests of the edition were Sophia Loren, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the producer Iain Smith, who received the Special Award for the Contribution to the World Cinema.
The Competition jury was composed of Wieland Speck, Bill Guentzler, Margita Gosheva Tomasz Wasilewski and Cătălin Cristuțiu.
The competition films made by first- and second-time directors represented 16 countries: France, Tunisia, Belgium, Iceland, Denmark, Australia, India, Bulgaria, Romania, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, France, Cambodia, Spain and, for the first time in the history of the festival, Vanuatu.
The Romanian Days Jury was composed of Richard Peña, Urszula Śniegowska and Guillermo Goldschmidt. Romanian Days screened 28 titles, with 11 feature films (of which six had their world premiere) and 14 short films in the competition, and three films out of the competition.
Two feature films, Sieranevada by Cristi Puiu and Dogs by Bogdan Mirică, screened shortly after their world premieres in Cannes, where Dogs was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize in Un Certain Regard.
At the workshop organised in the framework of the festival, TIFF’s director Tudor Giurgiu said that a consultation process involving the Ministry of Culture and other ministries, to include tax incentives in the new cinema law, is ongoing. According to Alex Trailă, who is a member of the Council of Administration of the the National Film Center and a counselor of the Minister of Culture, it has not been decided yet if Romania will choose a tax incentive, cash rebate or a tax shelter system.
Tax incentives will be launched by the end of 2016, the Romanian Minister of Culture Corina Șuteu announced during Cannes Film Festival. Another important change in the funding procedure, as the Ministry of Culture wants to strengthen the CNC, will be to move from the existing credit system into one with subventions.
TIFF was presented by Romanian Film Promotion and the Transilvania Film Festival Association, and was supported by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, the National Film Center, Cluj City Hall and Local Council, Romanian Cultural Institute, Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA by the European Commission.
Competition:
Transilvania Trophy (15,000 EUR): Dogs / Câini (France, Romania, Bulgaria)
Directed by Bogdan Mirică
Produced by EZ Films 14
Coproduced by 42Km Film, Argo Film
Supported by the Romanian National Film Centre, Bulgarian National Film Centre
Best Director (5,000 EUR): Avishai Sivan for Tikkun (Israel)
Special Jury Prize (1,500 EUR): Sparrows (Island, Denmark)
Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Produced by Nimbus Film, Nimbus Iceland, Halibut
Coproduced by Pegasus Pictures, MP Film Production
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Center
Best Acting (1,000 EUR): David D’Ingeo for Where there is Shade / De l'ombre il y a (France, Cambodia)
Jury Special Mention: Monika Naydenova and Alexander Benev for their acting in Thirst / Jajda (Bulgaria)
Directed by Svetla Tsotsorkova
Produced by Front Film
Supported by Bulgarian National Film Centre
The FIPRESCI Prize awarded to a film from the section #Animal: Neon Bull by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil)
Audience Award: The Open Door / La Puerta Abierta by Marina Seresesky (Spain)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Sophia Loren
Excellency Award: Carmen Galin
Lifetime Achievement Award: Orosz Lujza
Special Award for the Contribution to the World Cinema: Iain Smith
Special Award – Transilvania 15 Trophy: Cristi Puiu
Romanian Days Competition:
Best Feature Film (6,000 EUR in postproduction services): Ultima zi / The Last Day
Directed by Gabriel Achim
Produced by Green Film
Best Debut (1,000 EUR): Discordia (Romania)
Directed by Ion Indolean
Produced by Hola Media
Best Short Film (1,500 EUR): A Night in Tokoriki / O noapte în Tokoriki by Roxana Stroe
Special Mention: My Name is Costin / Mă cheamă Costin by Radu Potcoavă
Shadows Short Competition:
Best Film (500 EUR): Saint Frankenstein by Scooter McCrae
Special Mentions: The Pond by Jeroen Dumoulein and Sister Hell by Fredrik S. Hana
Let’s Go Digital! Award for Best Film produced in the LGD Workshop: Today I Come / Azi vin, by Călin Boto, Andrada Băleanu & Agata Olteanu
Transilvania Pitch Stop:
Transilvania Pitch Stop Development Award (2,000 EUR) – Tie / Scor alb by Marius Olteanu
Transilvania Pitch Stop CoCo Award offered by Connecting Cottbus Co-Production Market: Alive in Moscow/ Viața în Moscova by Grigore Becket
Local Competition Award (1,500 EUR): Perfect Investment / Investiția perfectă by Ibolya Simó
Special Mention in the Local Competition (300 EUR): The Light that Memory Lends to Things by Ana Vijdea
The Young Francophone Jury Prize: Death by Death / Je me tue à le dire by Xavier Seron
