DAY OF THE TIGER (Tigru)

Followed by a Q&A with director Andrei Tănase and film critic Mihai Fulger

Vera is a small-town veterinarian from Transylvania, whose marriage with actor-director Toma is going through a difficult period. On a particular day, while a new tiger is brought to the zoo where she works, Vera finds out that her husband is hiding something. While going through an emotional breakdown, Vera has to search for an escaped tiger.

Director Andrei Tănase
After graduating from the National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest (UNATC), Andrei Tănase worked as a translator, tour guide, freelance writer-director for a couple of television shows, participated in Sarajevo’s 2010 Talent Campus and made a few critically acclaimed fiction shorts. The most recent one, “First night”, premiered in Venice, 2016 and received several awards in festivals around the world. Andrei is now preparing his debut feature.
“Day of the Tiger”, written and directed by Andrei Tănase, is one of the most anticipated debuts of the year. In an interview published by Films in Frame, Andrei Tănase said: “I like it when drama is deflated by the absurd”. The director manages to perfectly describe, in just one sentence, a vital essence of his feature film debut.