Schedule

Friday 13.06

    14:15
    TIFF.24

    Man of Marble

    TIFF.24

    A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared. Soon the filmmaker discovers that her investigation may put her in serious danger...

    Poland - 1977
    165 minute
    Together as One
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    14:30
    TIFF.24

    Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema

    TIFF.24

    During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre...

    Poland - 1990
    92 minute
    Together as One
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    15:45
    TIFF.24

    A Year in the Life of a Country

    TIFF.24

    Martial law, which was imposed in Poland on 13 December 1981, targeted the Solidarity movement, but it had other faces, too. On the basis of exclusively archival footage, the film questions the mythicised image of Polish society as a victim of the system...

    Poland - 2024
    85 minute
    Together as One
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    20:45
    Pornit

    TIFF 2025 OPENING GALA: CHRISTY

    The 24th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Cluj-Napoca, June 13–22, 2025) will open with Christy (dir. Brendan Canty, Ireland/UK, 2025), a hopeful coming-of-age story about resilience and the power to start over, recently awarded at the Berlinale.

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    21:45
    Q&A with director Brendan Canty and film cast
    Pornit

    Christy

    Q&A with director Brendan Canty and film cast

    Christy, seventeen, is forced to move in with his estranged older half-brother after being thrown out of his suburban foster home.

    Ireland, United Kingdom - 2025
    94 minute
    Teen Spirit
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