TIFFashion, the series of events meant to connect the two worlds of film and fashion, returns to TIFF’s special events programme. This year, Hotel Continental in Unirii Square will host all TIFFFashion events, the hotel being one of the landmarks of Cluj, closed down for several years and included in the town’s cultural circuit by Transilvania International Film Festival.
During June 3-9, within the Dressing the Story: Film & Theatre Costumes by Doina Levintza, exhibit, the public will be able to admire some of the best Romanian theatre and film costumes. One the most famous Romanian fashion designers brings to TIFF and one of a kind exhibit: the viewers can admire in Cluj the Gopo 2009 award-winning costumes from The Rest is Silence (d. Nae Caranfil), together with costumes from other Romanian public faves: Why are the Bells Tolling, Mitica? (d. Lucian Pintilie), The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (d. Dan Pița), Beyond the Sands (d. Radu Gabrea), The Last Night of Love (d. Sergiu Nicolaescu). The costumes designed by Levintza for theatre plays such as Richard III (d. Mihai Mănuțiu), The Portrait of Dorian Gray (d. Dragoș Galgoțiu) or Hic sunt leones (d. Dan Puric) can also be admired within the same exhibition.
Another exceptional exhibition organized at TIFF will put under fresh perspective some of the classic films of Romanian cinema. One of the most active authors of film posters in Romania before 1989, graphic designer Klára Tamás, returns to Cluj-Napoca to present to the Romanian public an impressive collection of posters made for local productions which were distributed in Romania and abroad throughout the Golden Age. Christopher Landry's renowned album, The Silver Screen in the Golden Age. Romanian Film Posters between 1965 and 1989 will also be officially launched in Cluj-Napoca during the opening of the exhibition. The Romanian Film Posters by Klára Tamás will be opened between June 3-9.
In addition at TIFFashion, during the same period, the public will be able to see some of best visuals designed by students from the Art and Design University in Cluj-Napoca and proposed as promotional merchandise for TIFF’s anniversary edition. These will be exhibited together with original materials from the festival’s archive: the viewers will admire, for the first time, the various visual drafts rejected at the previous editions, and wonder “what if” the TIFF posters wouldn’t have included famous local lines from classics such as Brokeback Mountain, The Postman Always Rings Twice or E.T..
