Based on the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt, the film revolves around the encounter in a hotel room in Istanbul between a scholar (Tilda Swinton) and a djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

Their conversation leads to consequences neither would have expected.

Directed by George Miller (the Mad Max series), the fantasy-romance drama is released in the US on August 31st.

In Romania the movie will be released on September 2, 2022, distributed by Prorom and Ro Image 2000.

The 200 films from 55 countries brought 102,000 ticket payers to the cinema screens, 8% more than in 2019, the year in which the previous record was set.

The most popular event in the program of this edition of TIFF was the special screening on the last night of the festival.

Official Competition, the new film of the Argentine directorial duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, attracted over 3,200 ticket payers in Unirii Open Air.

In the Official Competition, a billionaire decides to produce a legendary film and looks for the best in the industry. Renowned director Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz) is chosen to direct, and is soon joined by two incredibly talented actors: Félix Rivero (Antonio Banderas), adored in Hollywood, and the radical theater actor Iván Torres (Oscar Martínez).

They're both legends, but not good friends. When Lola tests them more and more eccentrically, Félix and Iván will have not only to face each, but also re-evaluate themselfs.

The film distributed by Prorom, Official Competition will soon premiere in Romania on VOD platforms.

Foto by Nicu Cherciu / TIFF.

In this hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure, with her laundromat teetering on the brink of failure and her marriage on the rocks, overworked Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) struggles to cope with everything. And, as if facing a gloomy midlife crisis wasn't enough, now Evelyn has to save the world when an inexplicable multiverse rift makes her explore parallel realities!

Directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Everything Everywhere All At Once will be in the Supernova section of TIFF and will premiere on June 19, 2022 at Banffy Castle (Bonțida) at 09:45 p.m.

Buy tickets here: https://eventbook.ro/film/bilete-tiff-2022-orice-oriunde-oricand-everything-everywhere-all-at-once

Deep in the Appalachian mountains, a reclusive American military veteran (Robert de Niro) and a European tourist (John Travolta) strike up an unlikely friendship.

But when the tourist's true intentions come to light, what follows is a tense battle across some of America's most forbidding landscape proving the old adage: the purest form of war is one-on-one.

Directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, Ghost Rider), and starring Robert De Niro, John Travolta and Milo Ventimiglia, Killing Season can be seen as follows:

On Prima TV this Wednesday, June 1st, at 20:00 p.m. and on Film +, Friday, 03 June at 04:20 a.m. and Sunday, 05 June at 04:30 a.m.

Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans.

When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.

Directed by Brian A. Miller, and starring Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane and Ambyr Childers, VICE can be seen on Prima TV this Tuesday, May 31, at 20:00 p.m.

Insurgent is the second part of the Divergent series, based on the bestselling novels written by Veronica Roth.

Revealed as Divergents - people who do not fit into one of the five categories ("factions") of society - Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are now fugitives, hunted by Jeanine (Kate Winslet) , the power-hungry leader of the Erudites faction.

Insurgent won two Awards at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards Gala (Choice Movie Actress: Action - Shailene Woodley and Choice Movie: Liplock - Shailene Woodley and Theo James).

The Divergent Series: Insurgent can be seen on Pro TV on Sunday, May 22, at 23:30 and on Thuesday, May 24 at 00:30.