Schedule

Friday 18.09

    18:00
    +18

    Coward

    As the First World War drags on, Pierre, a soldier newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself. Behind the lines, he meets Francis, who decides to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting together a theatre show.

    Belgia, Franţa, Olanda - 2026
    120 minute
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    18:00

    Los Domingos

    Ainara, a brilliant and idealistic 17-year-old, stands at a crossroads: while her family expects her to choose a university path, she feels an increasing pull toward a religious vocation.

    Spania, Franța - 2025
    115 minute
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    20:30
    Online Q&A with Vladlena Sandu
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    Memory

    Online Q&A with Vladlena Sandu

    After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family.

    France, Netherlands - 2025
    98 minute
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    20:30
    the best director award at Cannes 2026
    +15

    Fatherland

    the best director award at Cannes 2026

    In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a challenging and emotional road trip across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.

    Polonia-Germania-Italia-Franţa - 2026
    82min
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    21:00
    Audience Award at TIFF 2026
    +18

    Feels Like Home

    Audience Award at TIFF 2026

    Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi.

    Hungary - 2025
    124 minute
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    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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Sunday 20.09

    15:00
    Q&A with the crew of the film: Cristian Bota, Dana Rogoz
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    Back and Forth

    Q&A with the crew of the film: Cristian Bota, Dana Rogoz

    Cornel, a young actor on the verge of divorce, travels with his authoritarian father to Austria. The journey becomes a confrontation with the past, with childhood wounds and the things we struggle to speak about honestly.

    România - 2026
    93 minute
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    15:00

    Things We Don't Say

    Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials.

    Italia - 2026
    114 minute
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    15:30
    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival
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    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
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    17:30
    FOCUS Jacques Tati

    Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

    FOCUS Jacques Tati

    It's the summer holiday season, and Monsieur Hulot heads to a seaside resort like everyone else. Well-meaning but hopelessly clumsy, Hulot unwittingly causes one catastrophe after another among the other hotel guests.

    Franța - 1953
    114 minute
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    17:30
    Q&A with the crew of the film: Medeea Marinescu, Matei Truța
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    Wild Delta

    Q&A with the crew of the film: Medeea Marinescu, Matei Truța

    Where the Carpathians meet the Black Sea, Europe’s largest wetland is born, a place of legendary biodiversity and countless stories. This is the unique story of a remarkable land, told through the voice of the character that makes everything possible: the water.

    România - 2026
    125 minute
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    20:00

    The Dinner

    April 15th, 1939. Just two weeks after the war’s end, Franco invites his top generals for a night of triumph. But in the hotel’s kitchen, a group of defeated Republican chefs are secretly preparing the meal, while also cooking up their last chance to escape the country.

    Spain, France - 2025
    106 minute
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    20:30
    Grand Prix - Cannes 2026

    Minotaur

    Grand Prix - Cannes 2026

    Russia, 2022. Gleb is a respected manager in a provincial corporation closely connected to the highest levels of Russian power.

    France, Latvia, Germany - 2026
    140 minute
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    22:00

    Le chant des forêts

    After The Velvet Queen, celebrated wildlife photographer Vincent Munier invites us into the heart of the Vosges forests, where his father Michel, a lifelong naturalist, once taught him everything about the wild. Now it is Vincent's turn to pass on this knowledge to his own son, Simon.

    Franța - 2025
    95 minute
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