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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

Mikhail Kalarashan

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.

English, please / Arte vizuale

“In the Beginning There Wasn’t the Word. But the Image.”

Adi Bulboacă, Andra Matzal

Four Russian artists are turning the world on its head inside a dark Bucharest room

English, please / War

"There is a war in their country." How Moldova Is Receiving Ukrainian Refugees

Andreea Câmpeanu, Delia Marinescu

We went to the Palanca border and to Chișinău, in order to write about both the people who managed to escape the bullets and those who are receiving them.

English, please / Racism

Face Against the Wall. Mother Living in Bucharest Slum Recounts Police Abuse

Delia Marinescu, Vlad Petri

After clashes between the police and a few inhabitants of the Rahova neighborhood in Bucharest, law enforcement agents are facing accusations of having abused several people in the area, including a mother and one of her children.

English, please / War

The War, as Seen from a Market on the Romania-Ukraine Border

Ionuț Sociu, Marin Raica

We set out through the villages lining the border, in order to see what the locals have to say about the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and to meet the Ukrainian Hutsuls in the mountainous regions of Bukovina.