For the third consecutive year, a non-European feature has won the Transilvania Trophy, the main award of the Transilvania International Film Festival (31 July – 9 August, Cluj-Napoca). The winning film of the 19th edition is Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth (Australia), which has also won the Audience Award. The film will be distributed in Romania later this year by local distributor Bad Unicorn.

The 19th edition of TIFF was held exclusively in open air venues, and for the last three days of the festival, wearing a mask became mandatory even in open air venues. A total of approximately 45,000 tickets were sold at the 232 night screenings (compared to circa 400 last year) in 14 locations in and around Cluj-Napoca. The 2020 selection comprised 157 features and short films from 49 countries.

The jury consisting of producer Ada Solomon, director Adina Pintilie, actor-director András Hatházi, playwright Csaba Székely and writer Philip O Ceallaigh chose to give two Best Director Awards: to Belgian-Dutch drama Patrick [+lee también:
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The FIPRESCI Award, which was handed out for the first time to a film in the Romanian Days competition, went to Romanian-Ukrainian documentary Everything Will Not Be Fine [+lee también:
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Here is the complete list of awards handed out at the festival’s 19th edition:

Competition

Transilvania Trophy
Babyteeth - Shannon Murphy (Australia)

Best Director (ex aequo)
Tim Mielants - Patrick [+lee también:
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Zheng Lu Xinyuan - The Cloud In Her Room (China)

Special Jury Prize
Sister [+lee también:
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Best Performance
Evgeniya Gromova - Fidelity (Russia)

Audience Award
Babyteeth - Shannon Murphy (Australia)

Romanian Days

Best Feature
Acasă, My Home [+lee también:
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Best First Feature
Legacy [+lee también:
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Special Mention
Ivana the Terrible [+lee también:
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Best Short Film
Kaimos - Sara Tsorakidis (Romania)

FIPRESCI Award
Everything Will Not Be Fine [+lee también:
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Audience Award
So, What's Freedom? [+lee también:
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