TIFF.21 - 2022

The 21st edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival concluded spectacularly on Sunday, June 26, marking a new record in the event’s history. Free-access events, including the activities in the TIFF Family program, the meetings organized at TIFF Lounge, the exhibitions at the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Ukrainian Street Food Day, as well as screenings and concerts for which Ukrainian citizens had free admission, contributed to the final tally, which indicates more than 130,000 participants at TIFF 2022.

Among the most-watched films of the edition were Call Jane (dir. Phyllis Nagy), Maigret (dir. Patrice Leconte), Metronom (dir. Alexandru Belc), Lost Illusions (dir. Xavier Giannoli), and The Unemployment Club (dir. David Marqués).

The most popular event in the festival program was the special screening on the final evening of the festival. Official Competition, the new film by the Argentine directing duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, attracted more than 3,200 paying spectators to Piața Unirii Open Air.

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A record-breaking edition for TIFF 2022

The 200 films from 55 countries brought 102,000 ticket buyers in front of cinema screens, an 8% increase compared to 2019, the year in which the previous record had been set.

The audience’s enthusiasm was also reflected in this edition through dozens of sold-out events. As every year, tickets for the Film Food movie-inspired dinners were quickly sold out. Among the films that screened to full houses were many of the local titles from the Romanian Film Days selection.

The most-watched included Capra cu trei iezi, the debut of director Victor Canache, awarded the Audience Award for the most popular Romanian film, Balaur, directed by Octav Chelaru, and the documentary Pentru mine tu ești Ceaușescu (dir. Sebastian Mihăilescu).

Utama Wins the Transylvania Trophy

The film Casa noastră / Utama, the debut of director Alejandro Loayza Grisi, was named the grand winner of this year and was awarded the Transilvania Trophy, worth 10,000 euros. The Bolivian production also won over TIFF audiences.

Following the votes cast by cinephiles attending the festival, the film also received the Audience Award, worth 2,000 euros, sponsored by MasterCard.

Actress **Maia Morgenstern**, Excellence Award at TIFF 2022.

A symbol of Romanian cinema and theatre, beloved and applauded by generations of viewers, actress Maia Morgenstern was honored at TIFF with the Excellence Award during the Closing Gala, a recognition of her four decades dedicated to stage and screen.

“I have Lucian Pintilie to thank for my beginnings in film. If he hadn’t cast me in The Oak (Balanța), nothing would have followed,” the actress said in an interview conducted by Eva Sîrbu and published in 1995 in Noul Cinema.

Just two years earlier, she had been awarded at the European Film Awards for her memorable role in The Oak (Balanța), where she portrayed Nela, a nonconformist young teacher who, in the late 1980s, leaves Bucharest after her father’s death and moves to the provinces, where her life takes a dramatic turn.

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Transilvania Trophy