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TIFF 2015 announces films in competition

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- This will be an edition dominated by emotion and tension, says TIFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov

TIFF 2015 announces films in competition
Rams by Grímur Hákonarson

Twelve first or second features are in with a chance of winning the Transilvania Trophy, the top award at the Transilvania International Film Festival (29 May-7 June, Cluj-Napoca). No Romanian films are in the official competition, but Europe is well represented, with features from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, the UK and Spain.

“This year, I favoured intimate films and those productions that use, in an intelligent and surprising manner, the conventions of genre cinema. On the one hand, emotion, and on the other, tension. I was interested in the manner in which filmmakers who have made their first or second features can make the most – through precise editing, great acting and directorial talent – of the impact of these stories, which start from a limited set-up, budget or number of characters,” said TIFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov in a press release. 

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Five of the 12 films in competition are first features, while seven are second features. The newest film is Rams [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Grimur Hakonarson
film profile
]
by Grímur Hákonarson, which will be landing at TIFF a few days after its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes.

The full selection is as follows: 

600 Miles, by Gabriel Ripstein (Mexico/USA)
Long Distance [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Carlos Marques-Marcet
film profile
]
, by Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spain/USA)
Rams, by Grímur Hákonarson (Iceland/Denmark)
The Fire, by Juan Schnitman (Argentina)
The Lesson [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Val…
interview: Margita Gosheva
film profile
]
, by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria/Greece)
Melbourne, by Nima Javidi (Iran)
Melody [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bernard Bellefroid
film profile
]
, by Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium)
Summer Nights [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mario Fanfani
film profile
]
, by Mario Fanfani (France)
Paris of the North [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson (Iceland/France/Denmark)
Plan Sexenal, by Santiago Cendejas (Mexico)
Radiator [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, by Tom Browne (UK)
The King's Surrender, by Philipp Leinemann (Germany) 

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