American Independent Film Festival returns to Bucharest this year with its 9th edition, which will run from June 6-12 at Cinema Elvire Popesco and The Romanian Peasant’s Museum Cinema.
The American Independent Film Festival is an American film, culture, and lifestyle festival that aims to leverage the popularity of cinema. Still, the cultural values propagated by it fulfil cultural, educational, training, professional, and humanitarian objectives among a Romanian audience whose education in these values has a significant place.
Access to the venues will not be allowed after the announced screening time.

It is an American film, culture, and lifestyle festival that aims to utilise the popularity of cinema, as well as the cultural values it propagates, to achieve cultural, educational, training, professional, and humanitarian objectives among a Romanian audience whose education places significant value on these values.
The project has presented in Romania, throughout the eight editions held so far, a selection of the most recent independent productions made in the USA, critically acclaimed and selected in the circuit of major North American festivals such as Sundance, New York, Tribeca, Telluride or Toronto or at major festivals such as Berlin, Venice or Cannes. Year after year, the films attest to the vitality of a cinema situated outside Hollywood conventions.
They are divided into specific sections, which include events, masterclasses, Q&As, open talks, and specialised workshops.
AIFF also has an essential humanitarian mission: all proceeds received by the organisers are donated to non-governmental organisations.
The American Independent Film Festival had the honor of having invited international actors such as Joaquin Phoenix, Ethan Hawke, John C. Reilly, Sebastian Stan, Mary-Louise Parker and directors such as Roberto Minervini and Jacques Audiard, who accepted the invitations to be present in Bucharest and to share their professional and life experience with the audience. The festival also facilitated live conversations between the Bucharest film-loving audience and some of the great directors of contemporary American cinema, including Barry Jenkins, Sean Baker, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Benh Zeitlin, Alexander Payne, and Steven Spielberg.
This year’s edition, the 9th, will take place in Bucharest between June 6 and 12 at Cinema Elvire Popesco and the Peasants’ Museum.