10/05/2018 - In addition to well-known titles such as Touch Me Not, there will be five world premieres

The second weekend of the Transilvania International Film Festival (25 May-3 June, Cluj-Napoca) is eagerly awaited every year, as it’s the traditional time for the festival's most popular sidebar, Romanian Days. A total of 13 features and 22 short films are in the selection this year. 

Besides films that have already been seen at Locarno (Andrei Creţulescu's Charleston [+see also:
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interview: Andrei Creţulescu
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interview: Constantin Popescu
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interview: Adina Pintilie
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Also set to be seen for the first time at the Transilvania IFF are Bogdan Theodor Olteanu's LGBT indie flick Several Conversations about a Very Tall Girl, Vlad Zamfirescu's minimalist drama The Secret of Happiness [+see also:
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All of the aforementioned films are competing for the sidebar's awards, together with Emanuel Pârvu's Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things [+see also:
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interview: Emanuel Pârvu
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interview: Dawid Ogrodnik
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Corneliu Porumboiu's Berlinale-selected doc Infinite Football [+see also:
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