The 14th International Film Festival Tofifest will be held this year from the 15th to 23rd of October in the Polish city of Torun. Eleven feature films will compete this year for the On Air: Grand Prix — Golden Angel, which offers 20,000 PLN to the producer of the winning film, funded by Marshal of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Piotr Calbecki, and 20,000 PLN, to the director, funded by President of Torun Michal Zaleski. 

The Balkan films that participate in this year’s On Air International Competition are Godless by Ralitza Petrova, Quit Staring at my Plate by Hana Jusic, Toni Erdman by Maren Ade and the Croatian Trampoline by Katarina Zrinka Matijevic.

In other sections we find Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, which will screen in the Forum 2105/2016 category, as well as Fatih Akin’s The Cut, as part of Masters: Allan Starski.

This year, the section of the festival dedicated to new films from the coast of the Adriatic Sea focuses on New Croatian Cinema by screening the acclaimed films The High Sun by Dalibor Matanic, Life is a Trumpet by Antonio Nuic, On the Other Side by Zrinko Ogresta, These are the Rules by Ognjen Sviličić and Vis-a-Vis by Nevio Marasovic.

Finally, in the Shortcut competition, the most popular section of the festival, four Balkan short films will compete for the Shortcut: Grand Prix — Golden Angel and namely 4:15 P.M. The End of the World by Gabi Virginia Șarga & Cătălin Rotaru (Romania, 2016, 15min), Belladonna by Dubravka Turić, Euroman by Gabriel Tzafka and A Quiet Place by Ronny Dörfler (Germany/Romania, 2016, 24min).