12/05/2015 - 31 features and short films will be screened in the most popular sidebar of the festival

Eight new Romanian features will vie for the awards in the Romanian Days sidebar of the Transilvania International Film Festival (29 May-7 June), while another five are to be shown out of competition. The 13 features are accompanied by as many as 18 short films, all to be screened between 4 and 6 June, when the festival will welcome hundreds of foreign guests to the city of Cluj-Napoca.

Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Treasure [+see also:
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interview: Corneliu Porumboiu
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Alexander Nanau’s documentary Toto and His Sisters [+see also:
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Finally, Tudor Giurgiu’s Why Me? [+see also:
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