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Festival coverage

Transilvania International Film Festival

14 June – 24 June 2024

The 23rd edition of the festival will run from June 14 to 24.

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Latest reviews

  • Girls Will Be Girls
    Review preview for Girls Will Be Girls

    Panigrahi is pitch perfect in her debut role.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
  • Eternal You
    Review preview for Eternal You

    If it sounds like an uncanny valley from the start, Block and Riesewieck illustrate just how bizarre and, sometimes, downright creepy this can be using genuine exchanges that have occurred.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.
  • Danger Zone
    Review preview for Danger Zone

    The viewer’s attention is grabbed by the sheer weight of the subject, the apparent cluelessness of the Westerners and a camera that is comfortable with but not indifferent to the stark reality of war.

    Sergiu Inizian · 4 out of 5
    Tourists seek extreme combat experiences in war documentary.
  • Toll
    Review preview for Toll

    At the heart of it is the complex relationship between mother and son.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.

Features

  • Life lessons
    Shuchi Talati on rebellion and relationships in school-set drama Girls Will Be Girls
  • Ghosts in the machine
    Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck on exploring AI 'life after death' in Eternal You
  • Zoning in on war tourism
    Danger Zone director Vita Drygas and her film's participant Andrew Drury on building trust, the lure of conflict and the effect on Drury's family life