Music Festivals

It all started in 2013 when Romania got its first electronic dance festival happening on the land of a castle. Since then it’s been shortlisted every year for the Best Medium Sized Festival Category at the European Festival Awards, among other important European names.
  • Main Headliners (2015): The Prodigy, Die Antwoord, Thievery Corporation, Fatboy Slim, Bonobo, etc.
    Attendance: almost 100.000 people.
    Address: Bonþida Bánffy Castle
    When: 14-17 July, 2016
    Website: http://www.electriccastle.ro/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElectricCastle
    Tickets price for 2015 edition:
    between 30 euro (day ticket) and 80 euro (4 day pass)
From its first edition in 2015 Untold festival got nominated for Best Major festival in Europe and Best New Festival, it had 10 stages, guided tours for the foreign attendees and a pay with blood campaign which gave the opportunity for people to donate blood in exchange for their ticket.
  • Main Headliners (2015): The Prodigy, Die Antwoord, Thievery Corporation, Fatboy Slim, Bonobo, etc.
    Attendance: over 240.000 people.
    Address: Cluj Central Park
    When: 4-7 August, 2016
    Email: ask@untoldfestival.com
    Website: https://chapter1.untoldfestival.com/ro/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UntoldFestival
    Tickets price for 2015 edition:
    between 20 euro (day ticket) and 70 euro (4 day pass)
Since 2013 Mioritmic became the main techno gathering around Cluj. It brings together big names from the electronic scene and it’s the on land version of Sunwaves, a festival that happens twice a year in summertime at the Black Sea.
  • Main Headliners (2015): Lee Burridge, Paco Osuna, Tale of Us, The Martinez Brothers, Pendulum.
    Attendance: almost 10.000 people.
    Address: Ethnographic Museum Alee
    When: mid of October
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mioritmic
    Tickets price for 2015 edition:
    between 10 euro (day ticket) and 20 euro (2 day pass)
Nominated at Best Small Festival, it’s a laid back event which happens for a whole week and gathers more than 50 artist in the center of the city. You will find live music from blues, classical to jazz and folk all free of charge.
  • Main Headliners (2015): N.O.H.A, Florin Niculescu, Jazzybirds, Zoe Rahman Trio.
    Address: Cluj Central Park
    When: at the end of June beginning of July
    Email: play@jazzinthepark.ro
    Website: http://www.jazzinthepark.ro/home/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jazzintheparkromania
    Tickets price for 2015 edition:
    Free entry

Movie Festivals

From 27.05 to 05.06.2016 Cluj Napoca is red and white. The largest film festival in the country, TIFF is now at it’s 14th edition. It has more than 21 location around the city from the traditional cinema theatres to some more unconventional locations. With a broad selection of cultural events, TIFF satisfies every taste. It is way more than a film festival is a virus you want to catch.
What can be better than a good funny film? Ten days of comedies! Comedy Cluj public enjoys more than 200 laughs with each edition. Spiced with some theatre plays and a few very interesting workshops, there is no excuse to miss this festival.
Acting as a manifesto for the short film genre, ClujShorts brings the short films into spotlight.