Proiect al Primariei Municipiului Cluj-Napoca.
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The event is organized by "Gheorghe Dima" Music Academy, the
Transylvania Philharmonic Orchestra, Sigismund Toduta Foundation,
French Cultural Centre, the Union of Romanian musicologists and
composers, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Local and
County Council and Cluj-Napoca City Hall.
www.clujmodern.ro
Along the four editions already held, “Comedy Cluj” has brought for the public over 450 comedy films. Also, special events have brought to the public directors, actors, festival managers, producers, distributors, film critics etc., which provided added value for the screeners in the cinema. An atmosphere proper for developing new internatonal projects was created by related events, which contributed for promoting romanian artistic values abroad. www.comedycluj.ro/dev/en/ [1] Links: ------ [1] http://www.comedycluj.ro/dev/en/
Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) is presented by
Romanian Film Promotion. Founded in 2002, TIFF is the first
international feature film festival in Romania.
During these twelve years, TIFF has become a well-known brand in
Romania, not only due to the outstanding films screened every year,
but also for the effective organization, sparkling atmosphere and
density of events, from seminars, workshops and panels to fabulous
concerts and crazy all night long parties.
TIFF's 2007 edition, was the first to be presented simultaneously in
Cluj and Sibiu, that year's European Capital of Culture.
Over these 12 editions, TIFF was honored to host important
personalities of European and worldwide cinema offering Lifetime
Achievement Awards to Julie Delpy, Michael Radford, Annie Girardot,
Udo Kier, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, Nicolas Roeg, Catherine
Deneuve, Claudia Cardinale and Wim Wenders.
TIFF has become the place for national releases of the most important
domestic productions. This is the place where Romanian audiences first
got to see the films that marked the boom of Romanian film production
over the past years: Occident (dir. Cristian Mungiu), The Death of
Mister Lăzărescu (dir. Cristi Puiu), 12:08 East of Bucharest (dir.
Corneliu Porumboiu), The Way I Spent the End of The World (dir.
Cătălin Mitulescu), The Paper Will Be Blue (dir. Radu Muntean), Love
Sick (dir. Tudor Giurgiu), California Dreamin’ (endless) (dir.
Cristian Nemescu), Cristian Mungiu's feature 4 months, 3 weeks and 2
days, winner of the 2007 Palme d'Or, Tales from the Golden Age (dir.
Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Constantin Popescu Jr, Răzvan
Mărculescu and Hanno Hofer), Police, adjective (dir. Corneliu
Porumboiu), The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (dir. Andrei
Ujică), Tuesday, after Christmas (dir. Radu Muntean), films presented
at the 2010 edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
In the following years, Transilvania IFF's main goal remains the
promotion of cinematic art by presenting the most important films of
the moment that feature both originality and independence of
expression. This is a festival where imagination and youthful vision
were always encouraged, and which the organizers have shaped up into a
high-spirited cultural landmark.
Romanian Film Promotion was founded in 2001 and its main goals are to
encourage and promote young filmmakers, help distribution and
promotion of the European cinema, organize seminars and conferences
about film production and distribution, and educate an upcoming
generation's taste in quality cinema.
www.tiff.ro
Transilvania International Guitar Festival is a classic guitar festival that takes place every year in August, at the Cultural House of Students of Cluj-Napoca. It is organized by Transilvania Guitar Association, who aims to develop and promote the guitar phenomenon of Romania and more precisely of Transilvania. The target audience of the festival consists of all guitar lovers, no matter the schooling, local audience, intellectual youth and teenagers, artists, professional guitar players, tourists, diplomats from the participant countries to the project and international audience attracted by this well-known event. transilvaniaguitar.ro
15th edition.
AlternaTIFF
The first edition of the music festival AlternaTIFF took place in
Cluj-Napoca from June 2 to June 5 and was organized by Indiescouts in
partnership with Transilvania International Film Festival. The aim of
the festival is to promote local culture, represented by Romanian
alternative music and to support Romanian underground bands.
The festival had 2 stages in the city`s central square:
* The open-air stage at TIFF Meeting Point – Art Museum`s
courtyard (30 Unirii Square)
* The in-door stage in Zorki Club – Off The record (10 I.Ratiu
Street)
During the 4 days of festival, 15 bands and some of the most famous
Romanian alternative music artists sang on the stage, as well as a
special guest from the USA: Gary Lucas, “one of America`s best
and original guitar players” (David Fricke, Rolling Stone
magazine), with over 10 albums, nominated to Grammy Awards and
collaborator with artists such as Jeff Buckley, Joan Osborne, Nick
Cave, Lou Reed, Chris Cornell, Future Sound of London, Iggy Pop,
composer of the famous song “Grace” on the Jeff Buckley`s
homonymous album and nevertheless, composer of some movie soundtracks.
Participant artists: Gary Lucas, Alternativ Quartet, Electroclown,
EvilMonkey, Grimus, Kumm, LetHam, Persona, Relative, The Amsterdams,
The Mono Jacks, The Pixels, Toulouse Lautrec, Travka, Tunderground si
Vive la Noiz.