{"id":5517,"date":"2025-06-18T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:00:58","slug":"tiff-bela-tarr-maria-de-medeiros-among-guests-of-film-festival-taking-place-in-cluj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5517","title":{"rendered":"TIFF: B\u00e9la Tarr, Maria de Medeiros among guests of film festival taking place in Cluj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian filmmaker <strong>B\u00e9la Tarr <\/strong>(i<em>n opening photo<\/em>) is one of the guests of this year\u2019s Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), which is currently taking place in Cluj-Napoca.<\/p>\n<p>He will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the TIFF Awards Gala. Until then, audiences will have the chance to meet him at the cinema and attend a special masterclass. After a meeting on June 18, during the screening of his debut film <em>Family Nest<\/em>, the public can meet him at a Q&amp;A session scheduled after the screening of <em>Werckmeister Harmonies<\/em> on June 19. On June 20, B\u00e9la Tarr will attend the screenings of <em>The Turin Horse<\/em> at Cinema ARTA and <em>Autumn Almanac<\/em> at Sapientia University. On June 21, he will give a masterclass, where admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of other guests are also expected in Cluj for the final days of TIFF. Among them are the Portuguese actress <strong>Maria de Medeiros<\/strong> and director <strong>Andrei Ujic\u0103.<\/strong> Spanish actress <strong>Jade Oukid<\/strong> and co-producer and costume designer <strong>Nadia Acimi<\/strong>, who were part of the team working on Oliver Laxe\u2019s <em>Sir\u00e2t<\/em>, will also be present in Cluj.<\/p>\n<p>Documentary filmmaker Andrei Ujic\u0103 will host a masterclass on Friday, June 20. Audiences are also invited to a special screening of his latest film, <em>TWST \u2013 Things We Said Today<\/em>, taking place Saturday at Cinema Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><em>Maria de Medeiros<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maria de Medeiros is best known to wider audiences for her iconic role in Quentin Tarantino\u2019s <em>Pulp Fiction. <\/em>Her latest film, <em>A Portuguese Villa<\/em> (<em>Una Quinta Portuguesa<\/em>, directed by Avelina Prat), will be shown at TIFF.24 in a special screening. She will also hold a masterclass on Saturday, with free admission.<\/p>\n<p>Several teams behind this year\u2019s newest Romanian productions are also expected at the festival, including those of <em>Kontinental \u201925<\/em>, directed by Radu Jude; <em>The Spruce Forest<\/em>, directed by Tudor Giurgiu; <em>Comatogen<\/em>, directed by Igor Cobileanski; and <em>Dad<\/em>, directed by Lina Vdov\u00eei and Radu Ciorniciuc.<\/p>\n<p>The Closing Gala will take place on Saturday evening, when the festival\u2019s awards will be presented. TIFF.24 will end with the Amadeus LIVE concert and a screening of <em>Sir\u00e2t<\/em>, winner of the Jury Prize at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photos: TIFF)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian filmmaker B\u00e9la Tarr (in opening photo) is one of the guests of this year\u2019s Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), which is currently taking place in Cluj-Napoca. He will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the TIFF Awards Gala. Until then, audiences will have the chance to meet him at the cinema and attend a [&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-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","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=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}