Transylvania Film Festival announced the winners, focus on TV and discount

Mahdi Flefel’s “For unknown land“Won Transylvania Trophy Transylvania film FestivalRomania’s most prominent Film Fest. Noz took the best direction award for “Nose”ZoftaxWhile the “Special Jury Award is currently listed as Julian Castronovo’s” debut, or, items of the sector of debris. “The 2025 edition includes other award winners, who wrapped on this Sunday, June 22, Bogdan Mururnu’s” The New Year the New Year that Never Come, “Daniel Tornenero’s” Saturn, “and Arjun Talwar’s” Letter from Wolf Street “.

This year’s festival, which saw more than 200 features in the ten-day program, opened with Brendon Cantty’s Berlinley Entry “Christie” and on Sunday rappeed with a boasty ear title in Oliver Lex prize winner “Sirarat”. Within Romanian days, 16 national features, Andrei Ujik (“Twent-Things-Things We Today”), and Radu Jude (“Continental ’25” and “Sleep #2”) such as Mihai Dragolia and Radu Mokanu (“Tooth and Nail”) and Leena Vodowe and Radu Sodovi. Negotiations about the future of the country’s film industry took a turn when a new Prime Minister was announced during the festival, local filmmakers surprised to suppress issues such as Romania’s recently revived cash exemption.

Those who used to participate in two intense days of pitching in several initiatives during the festival industry branch, RO days, not only the visual -visuals of the area could collect the normal temperature of the industry, but also had significant trends within the film and television. Within these trends, nothing was clear during the pitches compared to the gender division between the two formats: while the direct majority of the directors at the transylvania pitch stop were women, all the directors were pitching in the drama room, there were television arms, men, both programs with issues that showed that division.

The pitch stop was an overraching theme within the film projects at Romania and neighboring countries, especially by women who have seen male violence for decades. Projects such as Romania’s “At King’s Gate” and Hungary’s “Magada” follow women returning to their villages and face violence from both family and villagers, and modern -day offerings such as “Horseshu” of Romania and Turkey’s “desire” and “Piyatramare” and “Piyatramare” and “Piyatramare” Chronic Issues, Chronic Issues, not only the violence, not only the kind.

Going from the pitch stop to the drama room meant a Brucek shift, in which all four projects were directly struggling with modern masculinity or adjacent questions. Alias ​​Ferchin exit to detect the undercrest of human trafficking related to the “Brothers” sex of Murusrate; Both the “The Accountant” of Bogdan Dramia and Vayorel Ursu’s “The Fragrance of the Linden Trees” are struggling with comprehensive fraud schemes in Communist Romania in the 90s; And “Regim” of Alex Pintic and Alberto Nikula tried to find the great Romanian SICOS by examining modern young man through several stereotypes in a gym.

Romania’s desire to step firmly in the series market was a continuous subject throughout the industry, in which several talks were dedicated to the subject. A team of Romanian free-to-air television networks Pro presented an interesting breakdown of the country’s TV consumption habits, as well as highlighting the types of projects that they are currently looking, all young writers, directors and producers are willing to go into a more and more serial content in a keen room. As it stands, major local players such as Pro TV and its streaming arm Woyo, “popular IP or a series based on real -life local programs and personalities”, with the major element local appeal.

Programming director Antony Mangov stressed that they are “not fully moving away from formats, but want to focus on more local, original Romanian views,” especially in those who exploit in their most popular styles: crime, action, drama, comedy. Pro TV is also respected on procedural, autobiographies and medical plays, exploiting a more American thematic scenario. For experts, who does not yet work on Romanian TV, is a style, especially horror, science-fi and diastopia, as the programming largely responds to the needs and obstacles of primetime television.

With the highest hours of Romania being a country in Europe with the highest hours spent in front of television, according to research presented by Pro TV, there is a medium of 7 hours of linear TV consumption, there is a lot of growth ability in the region. In the last decade, film directors have begun to cross the threshold in TV, in which names such as Igor Cobilianski are briefly taking a step behind HBO’s “Shadow” and “Hacarville” from cinema.

When asked about this tide, the director told that Diversity The concept of the series is “a very modern one in Romania”, but he sees more and more colleagues focusing on serial content. “The series is very large, very, very large, which is much larger than the ortho films used to make in Romania. It is incomparable to bring visibility (chain), we had no idea of ​​its dimensions.” Other filmmakers, very prominent of TIFF festival tudor Giurgiu, when it comes to this huge attention on television on the film, is reservation, saying that the country’s cash discounts “should target more film projects” and “the primary focus should be on the film”, especially looking at the competing of similar initiatives in the field.

Considering the recent success of the country’s cash rebate, Romanian cinema and television seem to be in an optimistic, optimistic moment despite the country’s political and financial crisis in 2021, which was suspended in 2021 last year.

Complete list of winners below:

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