"Wild Tales", an Oscar-nominated dark comedy, opens TIFF 2015
"Argentina's nominee for the foreign-film Oscar is wild in every sense of the word"
Wild Tales/ Relatos Salvajes, nominated in the "Best Foreign Film" category at this year's Oscars opens the 14th edition of Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), which will take place between May 29 and June 7, 2015. A 2914 box office champion in native Argentina, this dark comedy about revenge will delight the Cluj audience, gathered in the Unirii Square on Friday, May 29, at 8:45 PM.
"Argentina's nominee for the foreign-film Oscar is wild in every sense of the word. This farce about revenge is feral, ferocious and gut-bustingly funny. Writer-director Damián Szifron hasn't made one film — he's made six, stitched together under one title and sent out to a world that may not be ready", says "Rolling Stone". Damián Szifrón's film is coproduced by Pedro Almodóvar, premiered worldwide in the Cannes 2014 official competition and was acquired for distribution all over the world. In Romania, the distribution is handled by Transilvania Film the film will premiere in cinemas in June.
Wild Tales screens during TIFF as part of the Focus Argentina special program which will feature the best Argentinean films, screened in the presence of many of their directors, actors and producers. The selection for this program was carried out in collaboration with Violeta Bava, the artistic director of the Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI), the most important film festival in South America. TIFF has actually partnered with BAFICI and, starting this year, the winners of the national competitions will be screened in the partner festival. A professor at El Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica in Buenos Aires and co-director al BAL, the biggest coproduction market in Latin America, Violeta Bava is a member of the TIFF 2015 Competition Jury.
The program, co-organized with INCAA (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) will also feature a series of concerts by various Argentinean bands.
Among the films screening in Focus Argentina there are Dos Disparos/ Two Shots Fired, by Martin Rejtman (Rapado, Magic Gloves), a writer, director and one of the founders of the New Argentinean Cinema. In this absurd comedy which has already screened in Locarno, Toronto and San Sebastian, a teenager finds a gun in his house and, in the spur of the moment, shoots himself. But he survives...
El cinco is the second feature film of the award-winning director of Gigante (2009), Adrián Biniez. A charming comedy, El cinco tells the story of Patón Bonassiolle, the captain of a third division football team who, at 35, realizes that his life as he has known it since childhood is over. Not only has he to start all over again together with his wife, but he also has to face the fact that he's an adult now. El cinco screened in Venice, Stockholm, Zurich and Rotterdam.
An impressive feature film debut, Historia del miedo/ History of Fear, by Benjamin Naishtat, entered the Berlinale competition last year. The director perfectly captures the paranoia of a society divided between the nouveau riche and the poor of the Buenos Aires suburbs. Various scenes, apparently unrelated, create the portrait of a world on the verge of implosion.
The tickets for the Opening Gala can be acquired in advance, starting with February, 2015, on www.biletmaster.ro. Price per ticket: 30 lei.
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Transilvania International Film Festival (May 29 – June 7, 2015) is organized by Romanian Film Promotion and the Film and Urban Culture Association with the support of the National Film Centre (CNC).
