Almost every aspect of life is more difficult in the mountains and waste management is no exception. A cross-border team of journalists looks at how mountain communities deal with garbage, environmental impact & tourism, challenges and possible solutions.
We spoke with actress Ilinca Manolache about the limits of theater and "Love Island", society and TikTok, misogyny and trivialized violence, but also about her role in Radu Jude's latest film, "Don't Expect Too Much From the End of the World".
Little was known about Adrian Ghenie until recently: along with Mihai Pop, he founded Plan B Gallery, famous for putting Cluj on the international art map with a new generation of artists
We spoke with photojournalist Vadim Ghirda about good and evil, disillusionment and hope, beauty and fear. About journalism and its increasingly complicated relationship with the truth, about the unsung heroes who make the work of war correspondents possible. About the baggage of suffering he has amassed in the 34 years that he has spent working at the heart of conflicts all over the world.
3 questions about the world of photo reportage and the ethical approach to photography, from 8 pros.
I have no clear ambitions in life, I am convinced that the idea of success is relative and that the formulas for happiness are narrow. Whence, however, the compulsive need for more and better, which grinds me down, but also exalts me? And what is its price?
For as long as I can remember, I've been ashamed by how I look. And for nearly ten years, I've been oscillating between anorexia and bulimia.
How the Romanian state and I, together and in turn, botched the HPV vaccine.
For two years, a young journalist and photographer has been traveling to all the pain points on the map of Ukraine to show us the war that's unfurling in her home country.
People tired of the din of big city life go to live in an alternative community in Romania’s Apuseni Mountains. Alongside the quiet of meditation, they are served conspiracy theories.
I tried to help an Afghan engineer get out of her country and I failed. However, I did manage to get her story across the border.
Come up and see another kind of Bucharest than the one you see every single day.
Do you know who Alexandru Potocean is? He’s one of the most respected young Romanian actors. We sat down for beers and I wrote his story.
“Sometimes we are the only witnesses”, Rukmini says. “Bearing witness to these events is important. If not, it’s as if they never happened.”
I met in London with the team of "The Night Of", the new HBO series.
Andreea Chirică has drawn depression, loneliness, and 30+ disillusionment in “Home Alone”, one of the best books made in Romania published last year.
I met one of my favorite actors in Stockholm. We talked Taboo, kids & parents, acting & storytelling, power & corruption.
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.
I wanted to learn more about one of the greatest stage and screen actors in post-communist Romania.
In South Korea, a radical feminist movement called 4B tries to completely reshape patriarchy by rejecting any kind of relationships with men. What made thousands of women make this life changing decision and what consequences does it have within Korean society?
I tried to find out what happens in my brain when I look at a painting.So I found out that artists would be the first neuroscientists
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.
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.
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.