{"id":503722,"date":"2026-06-21T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503722\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:11:09","slug":"we-wont-get-old-together-wins-at-transilvania-industry-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503722\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We Won’t Get Old Together’ Wins at Transilvania Industry Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCristi Iftime\u2019s \u201cThe Fear\u2019s Artist\u201d and Marius Olteanu<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWe Won\u2019t Get Old Together\u201d won big at the industry awards ceremony of the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, with the two Romanian projects from the Works in Progress program being named dual recipients of the inaugural Transilvania HBO Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe prize in the amount of \u20ac30,000 ($34,400) was handed to the two projects, which were among seven works in progress that screened for a panel of industry professionals this week in Cluj. The decision was made by a jury comprised of Georges Goldenstern, creator of Arte France Cin\u00e9ma and former executive manager of Cannes\u2019 Cinefondation; Loreta Gandolfi, a senior curator at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias in Colombia; and Siarhei Samusevich, a film programmer and critic working in content planning and programming for HBO and HBO Max at Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe Won\u2019t Get Old Together,\u201d Olteanu\u2019s sophomore feature,\u00a0is a pandemic-set drama about a man struggling to rebuild his life from the ground up when everything around him comes crashing down.\u00a0The director\u2019s\u00a0first feature, \u201cMonsters.,\u201d premiered in the Berlin Film Festival\u2019s Forum strand in 2019, where it won the Tagesspiegel Audience Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo details were publicly available for \u201cThe Fear\u2019s Artist,\u201d but it marks Iftime\u2019s first feature in nearly a decade, since his debut\u00a0\u201cMarita\u201d was awarded at Karlovy Vary in 2017.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Transilvania Pitch Stop co-production forum, the grand prize, offered by post-production company Chainsaw Europe, went to \u201cFathers,\u201d directed by Bulgaria\u2019s Martin Iliev and produced by Angel Ivanov (Handplayed). The film follows a young director who\u2019s dealt a life-threatening diagnosis and must face generational trauma when a journey with his father forces them to confront old wounds.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe TPS Development Award offered by post-production house Avanpost went to \u201cTimes New Roman,\u201d from Ukrainian director Philip Sotnychenko, which is produced by Valeria Sochyvets (Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema) and Sashko Chubko (Viatel). Sotnychenko\u2019s sophomore feature follows a Ukrainian artist who embarks on a project reenacting political assassinations across Europe, driven by a desire to escape.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe CNC Moldova Award went to \u201cAnother Story About My Son,\u201d directed by Adrian Sili\u0219teanu of Romania. Produced by Iriana Adnana (Domestic Film) and Maya Vitkova Kosev (Viktoria World Sales and Distribution), it follows a Roma community leader who helps a film crew recreate the ethnic conflict that claimed his son\u2019s life, embarking on a painful journey through grief, memory and acceptance.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Connecting Cottbus CoCoLab: East-West Award went to Mara Cr\u0103c\u0103leanu for the project \u201cSun Offspring,\u201d directed by Octavian \u015earamet. The folk horror film tells the story of two young lovers longing for parenthood who are drawn into a secluded Romanian wellness community anchored in the horrifying belief that you can meet your child before it exists.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the Transilvania Pitch Stop prizes, the Luno Award went to \u201cDecebal\u2019s Wedding,\u201d directed by Matei Lucaci-Gr\u00fcnberg and produced by Gabriela Suciu (Atelier de Film). The movie follows\u00a0a traditional Romanian family\u2019s tech-challenged attempt to attend their son\u2019s New York wedding, which devolves into a hilarious cultural collision with his progressive American in-laws.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Drama Room, which looks to nurture original Romanian dramatic series, the best series project award, which includes a development agreement with PRO TV, went to \u201cStay in School!,\u201d written by Rodica Dominteanu, while a creative residency at Bethlen-Haller Castle was awarded to \u201cThe Story of a Lost Boy,\u201d created by Gabriel Corneanu.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the newly launched Book to Screen program, which brings together authors and filmmakers interested in how contemporary literature can find its way to the screen, a one-year option agreement with PRO TV was awarded to \u201cGreu de p\u0103truns \u00een p\u0103durea de mesteceni,\u201d written by Ruxandra Burcescu, while a Book to Screen Award in the amount of \u20ac1,000 ($1,100) went to \u201cTot ce i-am promis tat\u0103lui meu,\u201d written by Ioana Maria St\u0103ncescu.<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally, two prestigious Alex. Leo \u0218erban Scholarships were given to Marius Papar\u0103, for the project \u201cIbida,\u201d and Ana-Maria Com\u0103nescu, for the project \u201cParadox.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Transilvania Intl. Film Festival runs June 12 \u2013 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristi Iftime\u2019s \u201cThe Fear\u2019s Artist\u201d and Marius Olteanu\u2019s \u201cWe Won\u2019t Get Old Together\u201d won big at the industry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,231554,225909],"class_list":["post-503722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-marius-olteanu","tag-transilvania-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}