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  • Miguel Calderón, artista mexicano invitado del Festival de Cine Transilvania TIFF 2017

    Miguel Calderón, artista mexicano invitado del Festival de Cine Transilvania TIFF 2017

    Miguel Calderón (46), uno de los artistas mexicanos más celebrados actualmente, ha sido invitado del Festival Interancional de Cine Transilvania, TIFF 2017, que tiene lugar estos días en la ciudad rumana de Cluj.


    Calderón es conocido como artista visual que se expresa a través de la fotografía, la pintura la escultura o el video. Su trabajo ha pasado por la Bienal de Sao Paolo, el Museo Tamayo, el Centro de Arte Reina Sofía y la Colección Jumex.


    Su primer largometraje, Zeus (2015), ha sido presentado en la competición del Festival y es un posible candidato a un premio TIFF 2017. Zeus es el nombre de un halcón y el protagonista de la película practica la cetrería para enmascarar una relación enfermiza que lleva con su madre.




    Los pocos personajes y el diálogo parsimonioso dan la posibilidad a la imagen que sea el narrador principal de este conflicto mudo, dirigido con maestría. Zeus es una película sobria, limpia, digna de interés que se ha proyectado en esta edición del TIFF. ( Adrian Tion en Liternet.ro)




    Miguel Calderón sobre la relación especial entre halcones y cetreros en esta película y en su exposición individual Caída libre y sobre su participación en el Festival de Cine Transilvania de la ciudad de Cluj.

  • TIFF 2017 – El Festival Internacional de Cine Transilvania

    TIFF 2017 – El Festival Internacional de Cine Transilvania



    La XVI edición del Festival Internacional de Cine Transilvania, TIFF 2017, continúa en la ciudad rumana de Cluj-Napoca. La comédia el Rey de Bélgica escrita y dirigida por Peter Brosens y Jessica Woodworth, ha abierto el festival en el cine al aire libre del centro de la ciudad. Se presentarán 255 películas de 53 países hasta el próximo 11 de junio en varios espacios y cines de la ciudad de Cluj-Napoca, y en otras localidades de esta provincia.



    Tres películas de España y América Latina participan en la competición del Festival: Las tontinas van al este, una coproducción entre Uruguay, Argentina y Alemania, la producción mexicana Zeus del artista y director de cine Miguel Calderón y El rey tuerto (El rei borni), la comédia negra del catalán Marc Crehuet.



    Más de 1200 invitados rumanos y extranjeros participan en las proyecciones, los talleres, los conciertos, los debates y los lanzamientos del más importante festival rumano, en el cual Radio Rumanía es socio de medios de comuniación. La actriz rumana Tora Vasilescu será galardonada con el Premio de Excelencia y el invitado especial del TIFF 2017 es el actor francés Alain Delon, quien viene con este motivo por primera vez a Rumanía.

  • June 3, 2017 UPDATE

    June 3, 2017 UPDATE


    VISIT – On the 4th of June, Romanias president Klaus Iohannis starts a formal visit to the US. On the 9th, Iohannis will meet President Donald Trump, with whom he will talk about means of strenghening the Strategic Partnership, the bilateral ties between the two countries and Romanias firm commitment to remaining one of the USs most reliable partners. Klaus Iohannis has stated that in Washington he will also meet with Romanians settled in the US, calling it a special moment, as always. On the 5th of June, Romanias president will attend the global forum organized by the prestigious American Jewish Committee, where he will be awarded the highest distinction of the organization.



    UN – On Friday, Romania officially launched the campaign promoting its candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, in 2020-2021. The event was held at the UN headquarters in New York and enjoyed the participation of a large number of diplomats and UN high-ranking officials. The Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu, who also attended the event, has stated that a new mandate as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council is a strategic commitment and an objective to be pursued by all political parties in Romania. Since its joining the UN in 1995, Romania has had four such mandates.



    TIFF 2017– The 16th Transylvania International Film Festival continues in Cluj-Napoca, north-western Romania. King of the Belgians, a comedy written and directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth opened the festival on Friday. 12 films have registered for the official competition, but the festival is hosting 255 films from 53 countries, to be screened until June 11. More than 1200 Romanian and foreign guests are attending the many screenings, concerts, workshops, debates and launches included in the programme of the festival, to which Radio Romania is a media partner. This years special guest is the French actor Alain Delon, on his first visit to Romania.



    DIASPORA – According to the Romanian Minister for Romanians Abroad Andreea Pastarnac, Romania could follow the Spanish model as regards the fight against domestic violence. At the end of a formal visit to Spain, minister Pastarnac stated she had held talks on the issue with representatives of the Spanish Interior Ministry. According to the Radio Romania correspondent in Spain, Andreea Pastarnac has also stated that most Romanians living in Spain have integrated into the labour market, so the rate of unemployment in the community is below the countrys average.



    NOBLE JUMP 2017 – A 50 strong Norwegian contingent has come to Romania to take part in the international exercise Noble Jump 2017, at the Cincu shooting range in Brasov County, central Romania. Also participating are 8 NATO convoys, comprising some 300 military staff and 150 combat vehicles and carriers. In total, 4000 military staff from Romania and another 11 NATO member countries are taking part in the exercise, which is unfolding on Romanian, Greek and Bulgarian soil. This is the largest NATO exercise this year.



    TENNIS – The Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, ranking 4th in the WTA classification, on Saturday defeated the Russian Daria Kasatknina 6-0, 7-5 in the third round of the Roland Garros tournament, with 16 million Euros in prize money. In the second round, Halep clinched a two-set win against Tatjana Maria of Germany. In the womens doubles, the Romanian Irina Begu and her Chinese partner Saisai Zheng defeated the pair made up of Abigal Spears of the US and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 2-1. In the mens doubles, the Romanian-Dutch pair made up of Horia Tecau and Jean Julien Rojer lost to the Croatian – Spanish pair Ivan Dodig / Marcel Granollers.




  • June 3, 2017

    June 3, 2017


    UN – On Friday, Romania officially launched the campaign promoting its candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, in 2020-2021. The event was held at the UN headquarters in New York and enjoyed the participation of a large number of diplomats and UN high-ranking officials. The Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu, who also attended the event, has stated that a new mandate as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council is a strategic commitment and an objective to be pursued by all political parties in Romania. Since its joining the UN in 1995, Romania has had four such mandates.



    TIFF 2017 – The 16th Transylvania International Film Festival continues in Cluj-Napoca, north-western Romania. King of the Belgians, a comedy written and directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth opened the festival on Friday. 12 films have registered for the official competition, but the festival is hosting 255 films from 53 countries, to be screened until June 11. More than 1200 Romanian and foreign guests are attending the many screenings, concerts, workshops, debates and launches included in the programme of the festival, to which Radio Romania is a media partner. This years special guest is the French actor Alain Delon, on his first visit to Romania.



    MALTA – Early elections are underway in Malta today, which will decide the fate of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose record at the helm of the Government includes both economic growth and corruption scandals, France Presse reports. The latest opinion polls have shown that Muscat, who is the leader of the Labour Party, might win, but with a much lower share than in the parliament elected four years ago, now approaching the end of its term. His opponent Simon Busuttil, the leader of the Nationalist Party, counts on a victory too, after four years of labour rule, shadowed by the famous Panama Papers scandal. Malta, the smallest member of the EU, with a population of 430,000 people, is currently holding the rotating presidency of the Union.



    NOBLE JUMP 2017 – A 50 strong Norwegian contingent has come to Romania to take part in the international exercise Noble Jump 2017 , at the Cincu shooting range in Brasov County, central Romania. Also participating are 8 NATO convoys, comprising some 300 military staff and 150 combat vehicles and carriers. In total, 4000 military staff from Romania and another 11 NATO member countries are taking part in the exercise, which is unfolding on Romanian, Greek and Bulgarian soil. This is the largest NATO exercise this year.



    JUDO – 52 Romanian athletes, 34 men and 18 women, are participating in the European Judo Open hosted by the Romanian capital as of today. Unfortunately, the Romanian champion Andreea Chitu cannot attend, because of an injury. The big hope this year is Monica Ungureanu, in the 48 kg category, a bronze winner at the 2016 and 2017 European Championships. This is the most important judo competition hosted by Romania, with 438 athletes from 31 countries participating.




  • TIFF 2016 has kicked off

    TIFF 2016 has kicked off

    The 15th edition of the Transylvania International Film Festival- TIFF has started in Cluj. The festival was opened by the film “6.9 on the Richter scale” screened for the first time in the presence of its director, Nae Caranfil. Also for the first time at TIFF, the film “Dogs”, winner of this year’s critics’ prize at the Cannes Festival, will be screened. Actually this is the only Romanian film signed up for this year’s competition for the “Transylvania Trophy”.



    Here is Bogdan Mirică the director and scriptwriter of the film “Dogs”: “The film conveys a feeling of pressure and cooped up tension. My movie is about men who are so caught up in their own manly nature that they don’t realize they are destroying themselves.”



    The festival’s weekend schedule has many good films and special events in store for film aficionados. For this year, the organizers have arranged a new outdoor cinema called Someş Open Air. Children and parents alike are expected at the Banffy Castle in Bonţida for two days of workshops, puppet theater shows, sports and games as well as for the premiere of the film “Nelly’s Adventures”, many of this film’s scenes having been shot in Sibiu. A spectacular fireworks show by the French Transe Express is scheduled for Saturday. The show will be followed by a fascinating documentary about the world of circus — “The Show of Shows”, made last year by Benedikt Erlingsson.



    On Sunday the music composed by Icelander Bardi Johannsson, performed by the Hungarian Opera Orchestra of Cluj, conducted by Simona Strungaru, will accompany the bizarre images of the film “Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages”, a controversial Swedish silent horror movie of the 1920s. Another two remarkable films have been scheduled for the weekend at the TIFF in the presence of director Sarunas Bartas, a special guest of the Focus Lithuania section: “Few of us” and “Peace to Us in our Dreams”. Actually a mini film retrospective has been dedicated to Sarunas Bartas in the “3×3” section.



    Also on Saturday the Romanian astronaut Dumitru Prunariu will attend, at the Students’ Culture House, the special screening of two films “Operation Avalanche” and “8 days in Space”, 35 years after his first flight into the Outer Space. The Japanese director Sion Sono, to whom TIFF has dedicated a large-scale retrospective, will meet with the audience after the screening of the films “Guilty of Romance” and “Tag”.



    TIFF music Nights will start with two popular Romanian bands: “The Mono Jacks” and “Byron”.At this year’s edition of the TIFF, actress Sophia Loren, who came to Romania for the first time, will receive the Lifetxcime Achievement Award.