Opening Night! World Premiere!

Director Nae Caranfil and actor Harry Lloyd in person for Q&A!

The true but incredible story of a group of Jewish top members of the nomenklatura who, in 1959, robbed Romania’s National Bank and made it look like a film shoot. Vera Farmiga and Game of Thrones’ Harry Lloyd star.

Centerpiece! New York Premiere!

Star Luminița Gheorghiu in person for Q&A!

Luminița Gheorghiu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) is pitch perfect in this Golden Bear winner that deals with the mother of all moral dilemmas: a parent willing to do everything in order to save her son, who killed a child in a car accident.

Closing Night! Director Corneliu Porumboiu in person for Q&A!

A rigorously structured and fascinatingly oblique new film from Corneliu Porumboiu that examines the life of a film director during the moments on a shoot when the camera isn’t rolling.

U.S. Premiere! Director Tom Wilson in person!

A disturbing film (or documentary?) about what really happened in Romania’s 1989 coup d'etat that dares to investigate a secret project for psychological engineering set up by the secret police.

There’s a tender and humorous touch to this light collection of tales about people who eat the animals that they love and animals that love people unconditionally, masterfully directed in impeccable wide one-shots.

U.S Premiere!

This deeply felt coming-of-age documentary follows two girls whose parents left to work in Spain and are cared for by their grandparents—a brief but intimate portrait of a broken family.

U.S. Premiere! Star Eugen Lumezianu and screenwriter Oana Răsuceanu in person!

Fourteen couples enroll in a camp designed to mend broken relationships, but things get out of hand in this charming low-budget comedy that has “American remake” written all over it.

Discovering a teenager with drugs, a young policeman hesitates about turning him in. But his supervisor has other ideas in this beautifully acted, provocative modern morality play.

U.S. Premiere!

Inspired by the work of Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, this trilogy focuses on a group of friends gathered for lunch and engaged in rich conversation covering life’s most complex moral topics.

Preceding the Czechoslovak New Wave, the second film by Slovak director Stefan Uher did much to push the boundaries of acceptable Socialist Realism in an episodic narrative about a casual teenage couple at the end of the school year.

New 35mm print! Introduced by Richard Peña!

This first installment in the so-called Transylvanians Trilogy is a fun red western shot in Romania that tells the story of two Transylvanians who go to the mining town of Cedar City, Utah to persuade their brother to come back home.

New 35mm print!

The second film in the trilogy continues the American adventures of the three Transylvanian brothers, throwing in some more gunfights, bar brawls, train ambushes, bandits, Indians and a flamboyant cabaret actress.

New 35mm print!

The last part in the trilogy follows the three brothers on their way home, but having to settle in Swanton City where the eldest of them finds oil while digging for water. Romanian propaganda films were never that inventive.

Free and open to the public!

The Chekhov-like Shadow of a Cloud by Radu Jude leads this eclectic bunch of seven shorts that also includes the Romanian answer to Kill Bill, 12 Minutes, and the hypnotic video-art of Matriarch, featuring a striking Luminița Gheorghiu.

Free and open to the public!

Three early shorts—Liviu’s Dream (2004, 39m), A Trip to the City (2003, 19m), Gone with the Wine (2002, 9m)—by the director of Police, Adjective and NYFF51 favorite When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

Free and open to the public!

The Cannes award-winning director of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu produced 20 two-minute trailers for the Transilvania International Film Festival starring Romanian icon Luminița Gheorghiu.