{"id":4969,"date":"2025-05-13T06:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:03:58","slug":"contemporary-directors-from-spain-estonia-and-kazakhstan-at-this-years-transilvania-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary directors from Spain, Estonia, and Kazakhstan at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Works by contemporary directors Rodrigo Cort\u00e9s, Rainer Sarnet, and Adilkhan Yerzhanov will be screened at this year’s edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival<\/em> (TIFF) in the event’s 3×3 section.<\/p>\n

All three directors will attend TIFF to meet with the public.<\/p>\n

From the eclectic filmography of the Spanish director Rodrigo Cort\u00e9s, the public can see Buried<\/em> (2010), a thriller about an American truck driver (played by Ryan Reynolds) who wakes up buried alive in a wooden coffin in the middle of Iraq, and Escape<\/em> (2024), his latest work, telling the story of a highly unusual character: a man willing to do anything to end up in prison. The film is produced by Martin Scorsese.<\/p>\n

Cort\u00e9s’ filmmaking journey began in his teenage years when he borrowed a Super 8 camera from his uncle and started experimenting. After a series of award-winning short films, he made his feature debut with The Contestant<\/em> (2007), a dark comedy about a university professor who wins the lottery only to discover that, after taxes, he doesn’t have enough left to pay off his debts.<\/p>\n

The films of Rainer Sarnet are screened at TIFF as part of the festival’s Focus Estonia program. The public can see The Idiot<\/em> (2011), a contemporary, personal reinterpretation of Dostoevsky’s novel; November<\/em> (2017), a haunting fairy tale shot in black-and-white; and The Invisible Fight<\/em> (2023), a story about a border guard between the Soviet Union and China striving for enlightenment.<\/p>\n

Described as one of the most intriguing voices in contemporary Eastern European cinema, Sarnet is known for his “cinematic vision blending magical realism, Baltic folklore, and visual experimentation.”<\/p>\n

TIFF will also host a mini-retrospective featuring three of the most recent films of Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov. From his work, filled with cinephile references and homages, TIFF will screen Moor<\/em> (2024), a drama following a nameless mercenary haunted by the ghosts of his victims as he tries to rescue his sister-in-law from a trafficking ring; Yellow Cat<\/em> (2020), the tale of a former convict obsessed with cinema who dreams of opening a movie theater in the mountains; and Cadet<\/em> (2024) a look at the toxic and violent world of a military academy rocked by a series of mysterious deaths.<\/p>\n

TIFF takes place between June 13 and June 22 in Cluj.<\/p>\n

(Photo: Rainer Sarnet -The Invisible Fight, courtesy of TIFF)<\/em><\/p>\n

simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Works by contemporary directors Rodrigo Cort\u00e9s, Rainer Sarnet, and Adilkhan Yerzhanov will be screened at this year’s edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in the event’s 3×3 section. All three directors will attend TIFF to meet with the public. From the eclectic filmography of the Spanish director Rodrigo Cort\u00e9s, the public can see […]<\/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-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","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=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}