TIFF.17 - 2018

The largest film event in Romania attracted over 135,000 participants this year, with 227 titles—178 features and 49 shorts—that played on the largest screen in Romania and the 13 partner spaces. Almost 95,000 tickets were bought to attend these screenings—a number that is 5.7 per cent higher than last year. Over 1,000 guests from Romania and abroad attended the 10 festival days, and over 50 of the events in the festival were sold out.

The 17th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival announced its winners on Saturday, June 2, 2018, at its Closing Gala in the Cluj National Theater. The 15,000 Euro Transilvania Trophy offered by Staropramen went to The Heiresses and was presented by international opera star Angela Gheorghiu. Director Marcelo Martinessi thus adds another award to the Silver Bear he received this winter at the Berlinale. Marcelo Martinessi impressed the jury with his rigor in direction and the captivating rhythm of the narrative, in a 12-film competition that did not make the jury’s decision easy. This is the first Paraguayan film in competition at TIFF.

The 17th edition of Romania’s largest and most important film event features a section dedicated to the great French artist, Close-up Fanny Ardant, which consists of two exceptional roles selected from among the over 100 played by her, alongside two films directed by Ardant herself. At the TIFF closing gala held on June 2nd, at the National Theater in Cluj, Fanny Ardant will recieve the Transilvania Lifetime Achievement Trophy.

Ardant’s beauty, exuberance, versatility, and extraordinary talent propelled her among the most beloved French actresses. She worked with important directors like Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais, Costa Gavras, Sydney Pollack, Franco Zeffirelli, or Ettore Scola, and played alongside Gérard Depardieu, Vittorio Gassman, Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett among many others.