TIFF Oradea 2026

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a challenging and emotional road trip across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also deep fracture within his own family....See more details

Bianca’s world shatters when her fiancé’s mistress crashes their wedding. Reeling from shock, she flees on a tourist train, launching a real-time odyssey of chaotic escape and surreal encounters through the off-season seaside resort. Rejecting her old life, she transforms her humiliation into a liberating night of rebellion, ultimately finding a new purpose as the sun rises.

Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. In search of new energy in their relationship, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo....See more details

Four former college dorm friends reunite in an apartment ten years after blowing each other's lives to pieces. They never thought they would speak again - but tonight, it is a matter of life and death whether they can understand each other.

Misanthropic novelist François writes gripping crime stories, but his own life is far less thrilling. His partner Colette, a professor at the Sorbonne and world-renowned expert on Alfred Hitchcock, is tired of watching François sit around their apartment in his pyjamas and yearns for the excitement of the classic films she watches with her students....See more details

1939. The world is descending into chaos. Thousands of distinguished Poles are taken captive by the Soviets and subjected to indoctrination as part of a larger political scheme. An ambitious enemy agent becomes determined to break the spirit of one particular prisoner — a world-famous young pianist admired by his fellow inmates....See more details

Beyond Frontiers is an immersive experience presented by Nico de Transilvania, bringing together film, music, the sounds of nature, and tradition. The event begins with a sonic journey through the natural landscapes surrounding Oradea, featuring field recordings made in the summer of 2026, and continues with a cinematic trilogy filmed across three countries: Romania, Bulgaria, and the United Kingdom....See more details

Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, in northern Morocco, where she enjoys the city and her daily life. Everything changes when her daughter, Clara, arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has lived her entire life. Determined to stay in the city where she grew up, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the objects she has accumulated over a lifetime.

Gianina, a young Romanian woman, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. While caring for her employers’ son, her own daughter grows up far away from her, in Romania. As Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion slowly begins to take shape.

A father and his estranged sons travel through the massive city of Lagos while political unrest threatens their journey home in this semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis.