Medieval Sighisoara Festival, 23th-26th of July 2015

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Share

In a first in the history of the Sighisoara Medieval Festival, 23th-26th of July 2015, the program of the 23rd edition of the event will be announced on Tuesday at the Bucharest National Centre of Cinematography, informs a release of the Union of Screen Writers and Filmmakers.



The theme of this year's edition of the festival running from Thursday to Sunday is "Minstrels and Troubadours - Five Centuries of Medieval Music and Theater," and will pay tribute to the memory of film director and actor Sergiu Nicolaescu.



This year, the organizers invite the audience to witness four world record challenges, each on a different day. Thus, the attempted record breakers are: hammering the world's largest sword - the 4.60 meters long "Sword of the Titans"; the world's largest flag ever hoisted in a historic site - the "Knights' Flag" - measuring 25 - 30 meters; baking a record-breaker pretzel with a 20 m diameter - the "Giants' Food"; and crafting the world's largest folk-art mask - the 4m tall "Shaman Healer's Mask" - as a Romanian traditional mask.



The Sighisoara Medieval Festival is organized in partnership with the Union of Screen Writers and Filmmakers.