Tudor Giurgiu, the director of TIFF, announced at the gala held at the National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca on 6 June 2015 that the festival broke two records this year, more than 27% tickets sold compared to 2014 and 65,000 viewers one day before the wrap. British actor Richard Johnson, the recipient of the Life Achievement Award, died less than 24 hours before the gala.
Transilvania Film Festival is organised by Romanian Film Promotion and Asociaţia pentru Film şi Cultură Urbană.
WINNERS
Competition
Best Film and Transilvania Trophy (15,000 EUR):
El Incendio (Argentina)
Directed by Juan Schnitan
Special Jury Prize (1,500 EUR)
Rams/Hrutar (Island, Denmark)
Directed by Grímur Hákonarson
Best Director (1,000 EUR)
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov for The Lesson (Bulgaria, Greece)
Produced by Abraxas Film
Coproduced by Graal Film
Best Acting (1,000 EUR)
Margita Gosheva for The Lesson (Bulgaria, Greece)
Directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Audience Award
Rams/Hrútar (Island, Denmark)
Directed by Juan Schnitan
Excellency Award: Marin Moraru
Contribution to the World Cinema Award: Nasstasja Kinski
Life Achievement Award (post-mortem): Richard Johnson
Romanian Days:
Best Feature Film (6,000 EUR)
The Treasure/Comoara (Romania, France)
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Produced by 42 Km Film
Coproduced Les Films de Worso and Rouge International
Supported by the National Film Center
Best Debut Feature (1,000 EUR)
The World Is Mine/Lumea e a mea (Romania)
Directed by Nicolae Constantin Tănase
Produced by Libra Film
Coproduced by de Film
Best Short Film ex-aequo:
Ramona (Romania)
Directed by Andrei Cretulescu
and
Black Friday
Directed by Roxana Stroe
Short Film - Special Mention
Pavel
Directed by Alexandru Ranta
Shadows
Best Short Film (500 EUR)
Black Forest
Directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo
The FIPRESCI Prize:
Test (Russia)
Directed by Aleksandr Kott
Jeunes Francophones Jury Award:
Vie sauvage (Belgium, France)
Directed by Cédric Kahn
Transilvania Pitch Stop Development Award (2,000 EUR)
The Soldiers
Directed by Ivana Mladenovic
Produced by HiFilm Productions
Transilvania Pitch Stop CoCo Award (offered by Connecting Cottbus Co-Production Market):
1985
Directed by Bogdan Muresanu
Local Competition Award (1,500 EUR):
Ridică-te si umblă! / Kelj fel, és jársz!
Directed by Bán József
Special Mention (300 EUR)
Sorin
Directed by Sofia Iulia Nelega
Let's Go Digital Award
Păpusa de cârpă
Directed by Georgiana Barcan, Delia Tărcăoanu and Luca Nicolaescu
