English, please / Tot felul
A Summer Reading Children’s Books
Irina Dobriță
This is what it was like to spend two months reading to Romania’s poorest children.
Căutare
după "Scriitori ��i animale"
English, please / Protest
Why I Skipped Work and Joined the Protests
Mihai Mateaș
„Stay right there, Mișu. We’ll take care of your work today”
English, please / War
The Future According to Igor: “We Either Win or Die”
Venera Dimulescu
The story of a 26-year-old Ukrainian about war, captivity and Chernobyl.
English, please / Holocaust
In Iași, an Art Exhibition Awakens the City’s Sleeping Giant
Luiza Vasiliu
I attended the first collective contemporary art exhibition about the Holocaust in Romania.
English, please / Animation
In sharing our animated stories, we can seem less like strangers
Eleanor Cowen
An American researcher explores the Russian and Easter European animation created during the Cold War in her new book.
English, please / Country
Cugir. Echoes of the Revolution
Ioana Cîrlig, Venera Dimulescu
In the late afternoon of 21st of December 1989, in Cugir, public institutions were burning to the ground. How did the smallest city to rise up in the Revolution defeat the established dictatorship in just one day?
English, please / Film
San Sebastian Film Festival (#4): Evolution Will Be Televised
Ioana Pelehatăi
Day#4: Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly on Roth’s “American Pastoral”, Villeneuve’s “Arrival”, and “The Oddyssey” about Cousteau.
English, please / Cinema
Cristian Mungiu: We’re a Country of Decent Folks Who Sidestep the Law
Luiza Vasiliu
Mungiu returns to Cannes with a film about an existential crisis.
English, please / Istorie
Roman Blood
Philip O'Ceallaigh, Simina Popescu
An Irish writer follows the history of Trajan's Column along the ideological waves which have shaped the idea that Romanians are a Latin people, which must be „purified” at all costs.
English, please / Photography
Every Place Has Everything You Need
Mihail Calarașan
Photographer Mikhail Kalarashan is documenting the life of a single mother, a refugee from Eastern Ukraine.
English, please / Film
Fantastic Mr. Fox’s Visit to Bucharest
Ioana Pelehatăi
The animator for Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” tells you how much detail work, artistry, and effort goes into stop motion animation.
English, please / În lume
The Last Days of Cinema
Oana Țenter
Other colleagues who were not around today write to me: “How was it? Wish I was there”. In the bus, I post a short clip with the message on the cinema: „Stay safe and see you soon.”
English, please / Fake news
What My Internet Looks Like, After Researching Online Fake News for 6 Years
Codruța Simina, Ioana Șopov
When was the last time you reflected on how your imagination works?
English, please / Film
San Sebastian Film Festival (#3): The Act of Fiction
Ioana Pelehatăi
Day #3 in San Sebastian: on the fringes of reality and fiction. Stone says Obama’s USA is as bad as Nazi Germany. Historic docs and fiction. Hong-san soo. “American Pastoral”.
English, please / Politică
The Romanians in the U.S. who are still fighting Communism
Delia Marinescu, Oana Țenter
How politics and religion intersect in the Romanian Christian-Conservative community from Phoenix, Arizona.
English, please / Război
Since the genocide in Gaza began, Israel has been killing an average of 13 journalists per month
Ioan Stoleru
226 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the past 20 months in what is a clear campaign to silence the voices of those documenting the atrocities in Gaza. We spoke to a Palestinian journalist and representatives from the Committee to Protect Journalists to better understand the dire situation facing Palestinian media workers and how it is affecting the state of mass-media worldwide.
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 / 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 / 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
“We Left All the Films Behind”
Ionuț Sociu, Marin Raica
They worked in film and television their entire lives, documenting stories of famine and war, traveling and filming throughout the former Soviet Union. On February 24, the war descended upon them.
English, please / Ukraine
“We Would Have Liked to Spend This Summer Differently.” Volunteers for the Ukrainian Army
Larisa Kalik
I went to Donbas with the young Ukrainian volunteer soldiers, ate pizza in the trenches and swam in a lake - that was when we weren't trying not to step on myself and when they weren't flying drones to shoot down tanks.
English, please / În afara bulei
“I won't possibly see her again.” A Mother Explains How She Lost Her Daughter to the Children of the Sun Cult
Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu
The mother of a current Children of the Sun member speaks about how her daughter has changed since moving to Children of Sun.
English, please / Film
Who looks after actors’ intimacy on a film set?
Oana Moisil
The intimacy coordinator profession was born out of the #MeToo movement and has become essential on film sets, to make sure actors feel emotionally safe. Vlad Troncea, a Romanian actor and dancer with experience both in London and in Romania, talks about his work — which, despite some stereotypes, is not about being the “sex police”.
English, please / Literature
Culture Questionnaire: Tara Skurtu
Tara Skurtu
Poet and translator Tara Skurtu on what she's reading these days, the songs she likes, and what she sees out her window.