{"id":10811,"date":"2026-06-26T12:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:03:35","slug":"bucharest-hosts-transilvania-iff-retrospective-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10811","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest hosts Transilvania IFF retrospective next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), held every year in Cluj-Napoca, will screen a selection of films from this year\u2019s program in Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>The public in Bucharest can see Carlos Saiz\u2019s <em>Lionel<\/em>, the winner of the Transilvania Trophy, alongside Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi&#8217;s unconventional feature <em>Hen<\/em>, one of the audience favorites at the Cluj festival.<\/p>\n<p>The selection also includes a screening of Richard Kelly\u2019s cult classic <em>Donnie Darko<\/em>, previously presented in the section dedicated to black comedies<em> The Pitch Black Anthology<\/em>, as well as <em>Swann in Love<\/em> (<em>Un amour de Swann<\/em>), Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff&#8217;s adaptation of Marcel Proust&#8217;s novel, starring the legendary Ornella Muti, who was a special guest at TIFF this year.<\/p>\n<p>The program also includes <em>Bulk<\/em>, a low-budget sci-fi film directed by one of Britain&#8217;s most acclaimed contemporary filmmakers, Ben Wheatley; Alauda Ruiz de Az\u00faa<em>\u2019s Sundays<\/em>,\u00a0 where a young woman longs to become a nun, much to her family&#8217;s dismay; Gabriele Muccino<em>\u2019s Things We Don&#8217;t Say<\/em>, a story about relationships at breaking point; Akinola Davies Jr<em>\u2019s My Father&#8217;s Shadow<\/em>, a debut set against the backdrop of Nigeria&#8217;s 1993 electoral crisis; R\u00e9mi Bezan\u00e7on<em>\u2019s <\/em>Hitchcockian thriller<em> Bazaar, Murder in the Building<\/em>; and <em>The Stranger<\/em> (<em>L&#8217;\u00c9tranger<\/em>), Fran\u00e7ois Ozon&#8217;s adaptation of Albert Camus&#8217;s classic novel.<\/p>\n<p>The retrospective takes place between July 9 and July 12, at Elvire Popesco Cinema.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/tiff-awards-cluj-jun-2026\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Saiz\u2019s Lionel wins top prize of Transilvania International Film Festival\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: still from The Stranger, courtesy of TIFF)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), held every year in Cluj-Napoca, will screen a selection of films from this year\u2019s program in Bucharest. The public in Bucharest can see Carlos Saiz\u2019s Lionel, the winner of the Transilvania Trophy, alongside Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi&#8217;s unconventional feature Hen, one of the audience favorites at the Cluj festival. The selection also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}