Schedule

Friday 20.06

    15:00
    TIFF.24

    The Kingdom

    TIFF.24

    Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war erupts. The noose is tightening around them. Death strikes.

    France - 2024
    112 minute
    Competition
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    15:00
    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with director Bogdan Mureșanu, actors Adrian Văncică, Emilia Dobrin, Andrei Miercure, Ada Galeș, Doru Catanescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Alice Cora Mihalache, Dana Voicu, editor Mircea Lăcătuș, costume creator Dana Anghel, coproducers Ada Solomon and Viorel Chesaru, executive producers Irina Enea and Adriana Bumbeș, creative producer Roxana Ardelean, historical car consultant Răzvan Marinescu and Andreea Zidaru from film distribuitor Forum Film
    Pornit

    The New Year That Never Came

    Screening also accessible for people with visual impairments

    Q&A with director Bogdan Mureșanu, actors Adrian Văncică, Emilia Dobrin, Andrei Miercure, Ada Galeș, Doru Catanescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Alice Cora Mihalache, Dana Voicu, editor Mircea Lăcătuș, costume creator Dana Anghel, coproducers Ada Solomon and Viorel Chesaru, executive producers Irina Enea and Adriana Bumbeș, creative producer Roxana Ardelean, historical car consultant Răzvan Marinescu and Andreea Zidaru from film distribuitor Forum Film

    Screening also accessible for people with visual and hearing impairment through the programme Cinema without barriers, with the support of the Institut francais in Romania. 

    România, Serbia - 2024
    138 minute
    Romanian Days
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    19:00
    Q&A with Felix Lepădatu and Raluca Regiulis (VFX), Angi Instrate (finances), Adriana Răcășan (secondar director), Carmen Rizac (Avanpost postproduction coordinator), Vlad Rădulescu (Avanpost co-producer), Ștefan Panea (Music), Bogdan Crăciun (producer), Toma Velio (operator), Alex Pintică (editor), Silva Helena Schmidt, Gabriel Gheorghe, Ionuț Caras, Mircea Andreescu (actors)
    Pornit

    The Spruce Forest

    Q&A with Felix Lepădatu and Raluca Regiulis (VFX), Angi Instrate (finances), Adriana Răcășan (secondar director), Carmen Rizac (Avanpost postproduction coordinator), Vlad Rădulescu (Avanpost co-producer), Ștefan Panea (Music), Bogdan Crăciun (producer), Toma Velio (operator), Alex Pintică (editor), Silva Helena Schmidt, Gabriel Gheorghe, Ionuț Caras, Mircea Andreescu (actors)

    Inspired by the tragedy of Fântâna Albă on April 1, 1941, the film recounts the fate of a Romanian community in Bessarabia, massacred in a desperate attempt to find refuge from the Soviet occupation.

    România, Republic of Moldova - 2025
    75 minute
    Romanian Days
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    19:00
    Q&A with director Bela Tarr
    Pornit

    Almanac of Fall

    Q&A with director Bela Tarr

    In a grim, claustrophobic apartment owned by a rich elderly woman, the inhabitants desperately try to relate to each other as they go about their bleak lives revealing their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

    Hungary - 1984
    119 minute
    Close Up: Bela Tarr
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