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.
Căutare
după "Scriitori ��i animale"
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 / America
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 / 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, 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 / 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.
English, please / Stuff
Culture Questionnaire: Jon Mooallem
Jon Mooallem
Journalist Jon Mooallem feels strongly about: Elton John, a marijuana cream, and a book on hijacking.
English, please / Film
San Sebastian Film Festival (#1): Dash for Youth
Ioana Pelehatăi
Day 1 for Scena9 at the San Sebastian Film Festival: running on borrowed time, for films about youth.
English, please / Visual arts
Adrian Ghenie on 10th Avenue at 27th Street
Mara Dănilă
I went to Pace Gallery, to see the first solo exhibition of the Romanian painter in the past four years in New York.
English, please / Photography
The Red Calendar Day
Mikhail Kalarashan
Photograher Mikhail Kalarashan documented Victory Day, the 9th of May, in Chișinau. Less than 200 kilometres away, air-raid sirens are heard everyday.
English, please / Literature
Romanian Society Was Dissolute
Andra Matzal
How to understand better the situation of the women in Romania nowadays from a book about the history of Wallachia written two centuries ago
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 / Romania
How Foreigners See Us: 7 Music Videos Shot in Romania
Filip Standavid
The eye of the foreigner, used to seeing freshness where all you see is oozing and destitution, has already crept into several corners of Romania.
English, please / Cinema
A Focus on “Scarred Hearts”
Andra Matzal
We go behind the scenes of the new movie directed by Radu Jude trough Silviu Gheţie photos.