Tudor Giurgiu, president and filmmaker of Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), reflects the role of the Romanian event as a “hub for discovering films and new voices.”
“At TIFF, it’s not just about rolling out the red carpet for big stars and VIPs,” Giurgiu said in an interview with. screen The final day of this year’s edition, held from June 13th to 22nd.
He cited the festival’s ability to showcase Spanish Rodrigo Cortes and Kazakh director Adilkan Yerzanov and Kazakh director Adilkan Yerzanov.
The two were featured alongside Estonian director Rayner Salnet at the festival’s 3 x 3 retrospective showcase. This saw three films released from Cortez’s works, including his 2024 film run away, Yerzhanov’s spotlight featured his 2020 film Yellow cat The same goes for his latest features. Officer cadet.
The festival shed light on emerging talent in the Romanian cinema scene through the three shorts programmes of Romanian Cinema Daily Programme. This included films like Dance, Queen Maria Mitulescu and shopping By Vasile Todinca.
“A festival of this size can also provide opportunities for dialogue between filmmakers, audiences and informal industry gatherings, and I felt this year we had reached the right size for these encounters.
Jurugui’s own film as a director, Spruce Forest, It had a world premiere in the Romanian film daily program.
He said the festival had a full house for master classes by Bella Tar and Maria de Medeiros, and 2,800 people attended Piazza Unirii for a sold-out screening of Paolo Genovese. Like crazy.
Jurgi said he was worried that Romania’s economic situation has increased ticket prices a little this year, so it won’t attract the same number of spectators.” The usual ticket prices for one screen this year were 28 rays (5.56 euros) and 25 rays (4.97 euros) for matinees screenings from 9am to 2pm.
“In addition, Cluj is a city with many festivals with two big music festivals (jazz in the park and an electric castle discovered by Justin Timberlake), so people may be looking at their budgets more carefully.
The final attendance count has not been calculated yet, but TIFF organizers expect the 24th edition to also post more than 100,000 audiences over the course of 10 days.
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