Transylvania International Film Festival: Dispatch Three

Transylvania International Film Festival: Dispatch Three


Transylvania International Film Festival: Dispatch Three

Posted: 14 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT

The festival has successfully wrapped up its 13th edition. Over 200 films paraded onto the silver screens around the main square in Cluj-Napoca. This year, the festival organisers omitted multiplexes from their cinematic marathon, opting for the small cinemas as well as alternative spaces such as the Student House, Military Centre and university. In this way the festival highlighted the woeful situation of small town cinemas. The number rapidly fell down after the revolution from several hundred to several dozen. Save the Big Screen is a campaign initiated by TIFF´s organisers to reverse this dreary state. Traditionally, the festival boasted Romanian Days section, a cinematic panorama of recent domestic productions. This section sheltered both mainstream fare and more arthouse oriented films. The recent box-office hit...

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