Schedule

Friday 18.09

    21:00
    The Transilvania Trophy Award at TIFF 2026
    +16

    Lionel

    The Transilvania Trophy Award at TIFF 2026

    With the start of summer in Murcia, Lionel receives some news: when he turns 26, he will lose the orphan's pension he has been living on since the death of his mother. Lionel finds himself in a moment of uncertainty about his future.

    Spain, France - 2025
    94 minute
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Saturday 19.09

    16:00
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    Leonora Carrington and The Surrealist Game

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    A documentary tracing the odyssey of Leonora Carrington's passionate life, the last surviving member of the surrealist movement. The film follows a woman's struggle to be free and to explore her own unconscious, a struggle that led to her admission to a Spanish psychiatric hospital in the 1940s.

    Spania - 2023
    76 minute
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    18:00
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    Leonora in the Morning Light

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    In the early 1930s, painter Leonora Carrington, a rebel against social expectations, joins the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons.

    Germany, România, Mexico, United Kingdom - 2025
    103 minute
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    21:00

    Gorky Resort

    1939. The world is descending into chaos. Thousands of distinguished Poles are taken captive by the Soviets and subjected to indoctrination as part of a larger political scheme.

    Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, Cyprus - 2026
    113 minute
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Sunday 20.09

    15:30
    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival
    Pornit

    A Selection of Films Made with Artificial Intelligence

    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival

    Eight short films, eight ways of looking at what happens when the image stops merely reflecting and becomes an instrument of creation: dictators watching their own collapse, an android in search of a memory, a photograph turned into motion, a childhood filtered into disappearance.

    85 minute
    Intrarea liberă