Tudor Giurgiu

For Tudor Giurgiu, the President of the Transylvania International Film Festival, the most important thing that TIFF managed in the past twenty years is that it changed "some destinies".

The Amateur Film Factory, the project of renowned French director, screenwriter and producer Michel Gondry, landed in Cluj Napoca on the occasion of the 18th edition of the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), and will stay here for two and a half months.

Members of the Romanian LGBT community expressed renewed concerns over increasing harassment and intimidation after a group of Romanian right-wing activists interrupted the screening of a French AIDS activism film on Sunday evening.  

Sophia Loren is visiting Romania for the first time to receive an award at the 15th annual Transylvania International Film Festival, TIFF, which starts on Friday.

Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) opened on Friday evening with a record number of spectators, being the gala with the most tickets sold of all the 14 editions - 2,500, according to the organisers.

Romanian feature film "De ce eu?" (Why Me?) by director Tudor Giurgiu, has won the Award of the Bulgarian Guild of Film Critics for the best film in the Balkan Competition at the 19th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival running over March 5-29, organisers reported in a press release on Monday.

Photo credit: (c) Alex MICSIK / AGERPRES PHOTO

Nobody Wants the Night is a Spanish-French-Bulgarian co-production recently opened the 65th edition of the Berlinale Film Festival.

The movie tells the story of adventurous young men and women are trying to find their place in history through the winter frost of Greenland, as reported by Film New Europe.

Film director Tudor Giurgiu's third feature "Why me?" will have its world premiere in the "Panorama" section of the Berlin International Film Festival running between February 5 - 15, informs the official website of the event.

Photo credit: (c) Mircea ROSCA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Twenty-five years ago, cinemas graced almost every town in Romania. Now the country has the smallest numbers of cinemas per head of the population in Europe: less than 50 for a country of 19.5 million inhabitants. More than 400 have closed down since 1990.