The most respected filmmaker in the history of Romanian cinema, director Lucian Pintilie, will be one of the guests of honour of the 10th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival.
The festival audience & guests will be able to watch the Romanian master's complete film works – consisting in 10 features and a medium length film – in an unprecedented & extensive retrospective. It is also the first and only time that Lucian Pintilie accepts to attend the screenings & meet the audience of a Romanian film festival.
Pintilie's classics Reenactment (1971), one of the highest-rated Romanian films of all times and one of the most important manifestos of Romanian cinema; Carnival Scenes (1982), an adaptation of the play by Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale; The Oak (1992), screened in the official selection of the Cannes International Film Festival, which got leading actress Maia Morgenstern an EFA Award in 1993; An Unforgettable Summer (1994), starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Mission: Impossible, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Il y a long temps que je t’aime) and selected in the competition of the Cannes International Film Festival; Too Late (1996), also selected in the Official Competition at Cannes; Terminus Paradis (1998), winner of the Special Jury Award in the Cannes competition; or The Afternoon of a Torturer (2001), also screened in Cannes; but also Sunday at Six (1965), Pintilie's highly powerful debut feature, starring Irina Petrescu and Dan Nuţu; Yugoslav feature Paviljon VI (1978); Niki and Flo (2003), with Romanian stars Victor Rebengiuc and Razvan Vasilescu, and Pintilie's most recent film, medium length Tertium non datur (2006), featuring some of the most important contemporary Romanian actors in all generations, such as Victor Rebengiuc, Cornel Scripcaru, Bogdan Stanoevici, Gabriel Spahiu, Tudor Aaron Istodor or Toma Cuzin.
Lucian Pintilie is the first winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Romanian film industry award - the Gopos - in 2007.
