Focus on Lebanon and Croatia at TIFF 2016

     Apart from Lithuania, Transilvania International Film Festival (27 May – 5 June) is dedicating special programmes to other two invited countries: Lebanon and Croatia.

     Focus Lebanon is organised in partnership with Fondation Liban Cinema, with the support of the Embassy of the Lebanon Republic in Romania and of Sensiblu, and includes nine films, carefully selected by a good and fine connoisseur of Oriental cinema, reviewer Jay Weissberg (Variety). From Egypt, Lebanese director Assad Fouladkar arrives at TIFF, with Halal Love (and Sex), a social satire selected at Sundance, in which the characters are trying to reconcile personal life with the restrictions imposed by Islam laws. Lebanese director Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, invited to TIFF as well, will bring his debut feature Very Big Shot, which unveils the political corruption and the media circuit of the Lebanese world. Furthermore, the programme will also present the films: Go Home (directed by Jihane Chouaib), The Lebanese Rocket Society (directed by Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige), Sleepless Nights(directed by Eliane Raheb), OK, Enough, Goodbye (directed by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia), Falafel (directed by Michel Kammoun), Waves '98 (directed by Ely Dagher) and Stray Bullet (directed by Georges Hachem).
     Focus Croatia is organised in partnership with The Croatian Audio-visual Centre (HAVC), and includes a selection of seven new films. Croatian director Ognjen Sviličić will present at TIFF his feature These are the Rules, award-winner at Venice 2014 for the intense interpretation of Emir Hadžihafizbegović. The High Sun (directed by Dalibor Matanic) follows three generations influenced by the Serbian-Croatian conflicts. You Carry Me, the feature film debut of Ivonei Juka, is a very ambitious, non-linear story related to Magnolia made by Paul Thomas Anderson. Presented at this year's Berlinale, On The Other Side (directed by Zrinko Ogresta) makes reference to the consequences of the war with Yugoslavia – and also about war and wounds still open is the dark narrative triptych The Reaper (directed by Zvonimir Juric), whose action is unfolding during one single night. Another two films part of this section are Life is a Trumpet (directed by Antonio Nuić) and Shooting Stars (directed by Ivan-Goran Vitez).
     Details at: Tiff.ro