Romanian film review – Coming next to your city: Outdoor cinema with Operation Kino

Does the team of APFRever sleep in summer? I've been asking myself this question for years. APFR is short for 'Asociația pentru promovarea filmului românesc', the Romanian Film Promotion, the organisation behind Romania's biggest annual film festival, TransylvaniaInternationalFilm Festival(TIFF) in Cluj.

Together with the TIFF team, APFR manages from June to September not only TIFF Cluj, TIFF Sibiu, TIFF Bucharest, TIFF Târgu Mureș, Alba Film Fest, but also the horror film festival Full Moon, which ended ten days ago.

Their current project is the 5h edition of TIFFCaravan-Operation Kino/Caravana filmelor TIFF-Operation Kino. The idea is to tour Romanian cities without or with few cinemas and present films from the most recent edition of the TIFF event in Cluj. And the best thing is: the screenings are open air and free. Operation Kino started in June and will continue until September 7.

The selection is eclectic, including the big winner of this year's festival, a Spanish romantic drama with quite the twist, Stockholm (trailer below). Personally I wasn't that impressed with the film but it's still a catchy, clever movie. My must-see recommendation would be the Spanish-Romanian co-production Caníbal/Cannibal, a beautiful love story featuring a –well – cannibal, but I can assure it this movie is unlike anything you might expect. I also enjoyed the Kurdish folk story Were Dengêmin/Come to My Voice and the soccer family comedy