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English, please / Fotbal

FC ROMANIA

Oana Țenter

For the past thirteen years, an eighth league football team has been bringing together Romanian migrants and pro-Brexit Brits.

English, please / Ideas

The ‘Pregnancy Crisis’ Franchise: from the United States to Romania

Diana Meseșan, Roma Gavrilă

A pro-life movement, supported by the US and funded by local money, is developing in Romania.

English, please / LGBT

As Thyself

Diana Meseșan

Romanian peasant, Orthodox Christian and Gay. Cristi Marcu, a cantor for 20 years at the church, could check all three boxes before learning he must give up one of them.

English, please / Hoax

The Fake Nobel that Duped the Romanian Academy

Andra Matzal, Ioana Pelehatăi, Ionuț Sociu, Luiza Vasiliu, Sorina Vazelina

A Frenchman with a penchant for vampires invented a university and a gold medal, with which he tricked institutions, publications, and important intellectuals.

English, please / Cinema

Virtual Reality bringing us closer to social reality

Ana Banu

We went to Camden International Film Festival and found out how innovative technology helps us create empathy through more immersive stories.

English, please / Literature

A Brief Account of a Book Festival in Edinburgh

Cătălina Stanislav, Vlad Pojoga

Festival Report: Edinburgh International Book Festival, one of the biggest of its kind in the world.

English, please / Music

One Hour of Sun with Son Lux

Andra Matzal, Luiza Vasiliu

An hour-long talk with one of the mind-blowing band of our times, about art as work, ageing, hope and the works of music in troubled times.

English, please / Cinema

"Life is more non-linear and faster"

Vlad Odobescu

For about 15 years, Kasia and David have been building stories in which the viewer becomes an actor and is able to push the script further, as in a video game.

English, please / Brazil

A Brazilian way to disappear

Toni Marques

Brazil's oldest scientific institution, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, was destroyed by a devastating fire on a Sunday night on September 2.

English, please / Iceland

North and Low

Ioana Cîrlig

Over the course of two weeks, I met with some of my favorite Icelandic artists to learn what makes up the place’s spirit and where the appetite for life comes from in darkness.

English, please / Press

Edicola 518. Infinity in 4 Square Meters

Emilia Barbu

In Perugia, a town at the heart of Italy, a newsstand seemingly popped up out of nowhere to shake up the world.

English, please / Media&digital

John Oliver, a Discreet Superman

Luiza Vasiliu

In February 2018 I headed over the Atlantic to meet John Oliver. What I talked to him about, who’s the Brit who changed the way we watch the news and how we can (can we?) bring order to the chaos around us—find out next.

English, please / Teenagers

My Classmates Told Me I Should Die

Lina Vdovîi, Sorina Vazelina

A 12-year-old Bucharest student resorted to cutting because of her classmates. Even though they should have intervened, the teachers had no idea what to do. Bullying still is an unknown phenomenon to many of Romania’s schools.

English, please / Holocaust

“I have a strange feeling that I need to run. Maybe you know why?”

Adrian Cioflâncă

These days, we talk more about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. We talk more openly, but judeophobia is rampant again. It was probably never really gone, just well-hidden.

English, please / Cinema

Comrade Detective, Voyeurism, and the Americans

Codruța Pohrib

The Cold War is trendy. “Comrade Detective” is an experiment based on the West’s nostalgia for its very own Cold War capitalism. And it’s right on trend.

English, please / Literature

'Unde este autogară?' An American Lost in Maramureș

Mark Baker

We asked one of the authors of the latest Lonely Planet Romania guide to recount a local travel experience. He took us all the way to Maramureș.

English, please / Cinema

Pink for Girls, and Blue for Boys. Gender Role Lies We Were Told Growing up

Ioana Pelehatăi, Livia Coloji

What isn’t becoming of a lady? What’s inappropriate for a man to do? I asked artists, journalists, and other professionals about who lied to them when they were children.

English, please / Tot felul

Red

Adrian Cioflâncă

June 2017 marks 76 years since the Iași Pogrom. It started with rumors, but there was another less-known catalyst: the color red.

English, please / Literature

To Fall in Love with Anyone, Read This

Luiza Vasiliu

I talked to Daniel Jones, the editor of The New York Times “Modern Love” column, about the hidden connections between love and writing.

English, please / Visual arts

Drawing is Dancing: A Proposed Guide for Geta Brătescu

Daria Ghiu

A tour of Geta Brătescu’s art. The first woman artist with a solo exhibition at the Romanian Pavilion in Venice.

English, please / Festival

“I’m Not Fond of Nostalgia.” An Interview with Radu Jude

Luiza Vasiliu

I talked to film director Radu Jude about his latest movie „Țara moartă” (“The Dead Nation”). A documentary about a Romania we don’t wish to remember.

English, please / Festival

TIFF 2017. Alain Delon is Acting Up Again

Vlad Odobescu

The TIFF guest of honor doesn't smile too often - and he doesn't need to either.

English, please / Visual arts

People from the Future Learn How People from Bucharest Used to Live in the Present

Ionuț Dulămiță

In the year 2017, 40 years after the Great Digital Quake and eight centuries after abolishing borders, a exhibition on Earth illustrates how people used to live in Bucharest a full millennium ago.

English, please / Politics

Emmanuel Macron. The Loneliness of a President

Cristina Hermeziu

The French people elected an enfant terrible as their president. Emmanuel Macron is 39 and contributes plenty of atypical details towards the symbolic imaginary of the presidency.