Indian films win top awards at Romania’s 2024 Transilvania Film Festival
<p>The 23rd edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania's Cluj-Napoca announced its winners this past weekend, with Indian films winning the top awards.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Transilvania Trophy, worth EUR 10,000, went to the Indian film <i>Girls Will Be Girls, </i>the debut of director <strong>Shuchi Talati</strong>. The movie explores what it means to be a woman in a strict and oppressive environment through the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a boarding school in the Himalayas whose mother does not seem to have experienced maturity either.</p>

<p>Another Indian production was rewarded with the Special Jury Prize, worth EUR 1,500. This is <i>The Adamant Girl</i>, directed by Vinothraj Palani, who was previously awarded at Transilvania IFF in 2021 for his debut film <i>Pebbles</i>.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Official Competition Jury was also impressed by the way director Sebastián Quebrada tells a personal story in <i>The Other Son</i>, following the inner conflicts of each character. He was awarded the Best Director Prize, worth EUR 3,000.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the Best Acting Prize, worth EUR 1,000, was awarded to Hassan Pourshirazi for his role in <i>The Old Bachelor</i> (directed by Oktay Baraheni).</p>

<p>The Feature Film Award within the Romanian Days competition was won by the independent production <i>Dismissed</i>, directed by Horia Cucută and George ve Ganæaard.&nbsp;</p>

<p>At the same time, the What's Up, Doc? competition, which includes films that play with the conventions of documentary cinema, was won by&nbsp;<i>Kix</i> (directed by Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész). The prize worth EUR 2,000 was awarded for "the cinematic confidence with which the authors accompany, as detached accomplices, the transformation of a child."</p>

<p>The complete list of winners is available <a href="https://tiff.ro/en/festival/2024/premii" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

<p><i>irina.marica@romania-insider.com</i></p>

<p><i>(Photo source: the organizers)</i></p>