Festival

Festival presentation: 

First international feature film festival in Romania.

Competition for 1st and 2nd features and Transylvanian fantasy/horror section

Festival Nickname: 

TIFF

Edition: 

10

Festival Logo: 

Theme: 

Animation

Documentary

International

Sport

Student films

Category/Format: 

Mixed

Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) is presented by Romanian Film Promotion, and it is the first international feature film festival in Romania. Its main host is the town of Cluj Napoca, Transylvania.

Founded in 2002, TIFF has grown rapidly to be the most important film-related event in Romania and one of the most spectacular annual events in the region. Over the years, TIFF's Lifetime Achievement Award has been presented to important figures of European and worldwide cinema, including Julie Delpy, Michael Radford, Annie Girardot, Udo Kier, Vanessa Redgrave, Nicolas Roeg or Franco Nero.

In 2007, the festival was upgraded to a new level, with then-European Capital of Culture Sibiu as a second host. Over 50,000 people have attended the screenings in the four cinemas of Cluj Napoca, eager not to miss over 100 features and almost 60 short films presented in the competitive and show-case sections of the festival. TIFF has become the traditional premiere hub for domestic features which are now landmarks of the evolution of the so-called Romanian New Wave of filmmakers: Occident (directed by Cristian Mungiu) in 2002, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (directed by Cristi Puiu) in 2005,  12:08 East of Bucharest (directed by Corneliu Porumboiu), The Way I Spent the End of The World (directed by Cătălin Mitulescu), The Paper Will Be Blue (directed by Radu Muntean), Love Sick (directed by Tudor Giurgiu) in 2006, and the winner of the 2007 Palme D'Or, Cristian Mungiu's  4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days have all had their first Romanian screenings in Cluj Napoca. The Festival is now a well-known brand in the region not only due to the sensational film programs screened every year, but also for the effective layout, sparking atmosphere and density of events, from seminars, workshops and panels to fabulous concerts and crazy all night long parties.        

Transilvania IFF's main goal is the promotion of cinematic art by presenting some of the most innovative and spectacular films of the moment that feature both originality and independence of expression, that reflect unusual cinematic language forms or focus on current trends in youth culture.

Romanian Film Promotion was founded in 2001 and wants to promote young filmmakers, organize a feature film festival, help distribution and promotion of the European cinema, organize seminars and conferences about film production and distribution, educate young generation's taste for good film making.