Program TIFF.19 Sibiu

Famous film director Levent is completely unaware of Aliye, a housekeeper at the hotel where he is staying. However, Aliye, who is trying to tailor a new life story for herself, knows Levent and his films very well. Aliye's intriguing story brings together these two distant people with completely different lives....See more details

In a remote village in the Talysh montains between Iran and Azerbaijan, Samid, a TV repairman, dusts off his old Soviet film projector. He dreams of bringing his village together in front of the silver screen once more. But he faces one obstacle after another, until he finds an unexpected ally – a young film buff, Ayaz....See more details

Christy, seventeen, is forced to move in with his estranged older half-brother after being thrown out of his suburban foster home. While his brother sees the arrangement as temporary, Christy begins to feel at home on Cork's working-class Northside, making friends and reconnecting with his past through his seemingly more corrupting extended family....See more details

A journalist from Moldova, estranged from her father who had emigrated to Italy years before, finds out he has become a victim of workplace harassment. Along with the decision to help him expose his employer, the wounds of the past re-open and she starts a simultaneous journey through their violence-laden relationship.

Screenplay: Radu Jude Director of Photography: Marius Panduru Editor: Cătălin Cristuțiu Cast: Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Șerban Pavlu, Oana Mardare, Annamária Biluska, Adrian Sitaru, Marius Damian, Nicodim Ungureanu, Ilinca Manolache Producer: Alexandru Teodorescu, Rodrigo Teixeira, Paul Thiltges Production: Saga Film, RT Features, Bord Cadre films, Sovereign Films, Paul Thiltges Distributions Festivals: Berlin 2025, Luxembourg City 2025, CPH:DOX 2025, BAFICI 2025, Hong Kong 2025, Istanbul 2025, Jeonju 2025 Awards: Cel mai bun scenariu/Best Screenplay – Berlin 2025 FILMOGRAPHY Kontinental '25 (2025), Sleep#2 (2005), Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Uppercase Print (2020), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018), Scarred Hearts (2016), Aferim! (2015) Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania....See more details

Eddy Merckx is more than a champion cyclist; in his time of unprecedented sporting victory during the 1960s and 1970s, he represented the fusion of Belgium’s Walloon and Flemish cultures. This documentary, drawing on extensive TV archives, concentrates on Merckx’s humble ascent, from early competitions to a 13-year run of international triumphs.

A romantic comedy that goes beyond appearances, diving into the minds of its main characters, Piero and Lara, and revealing their most hidden thoughts and the inner battles that we all face. And one thing is clear: once they have met they will never be the same again.

Itty Bitty este răsfăţata familiei şi are cea mai fericită copilărie din lume, dar asta doar până când părinţii îi spun că va avea un frăţior. Şi că acesta, ce oroare, va sta în camera ei! Împreună cu căţelul ei magic şi vecina ei, prinţesa, Itty Bitty va porni într-o nemaipomenită aventură pentru a găsi un castel de prinţesă în care să se mute....See more details

Books are the enemy! That is why, in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, reading is strictly forbidden. The fire brigade’s sole mission is not to put fires out but to hunt down people who possess books and to reduce these objects to ashes. One day, Montag, a zealous fireman and a citizen who is respectful of institutions, comes across Clarisse, a young schoolteacher who makes him doubt his job...

Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, the director and his Associated Press colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian brigade battling through approximately one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. Weaving together original footage, intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam video and powerful moments of reflection, the film reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that, for them, this war may never end.