Căutare

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 / Photography

Romanian Photographer Explores Girlhood Around the World in 250 Portraits of Awesome

Patricia Cîrtog

Photographer Mihaela Noroc traveled in over 70 countries to show how diverse is the feminine beauty in the project “Atlas of beauty”. Her newest book, “Girls of the World: Portraits and Stories from Around the World”, is a gift for the ones curious to find out how girls live around the world.

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 / Photography

Horia Manolache’s American Dream

Ioana Pelehatăi

What motivated Romanian photographer Horia Manolache to capture the homeless people of San Francisco? What does it mean to be successful?

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 / Ukraine

“People won't be coming back here anytime soon.” Ukraine’s Eastern War Front in 7 Snapshots

Larisa Kalik, Larisa Kalik

A young journalist accompanies the Ukrainian military on a war tour on the eastern front, in Avdiivka, the town that the Russians have been struggling to capture for months.

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 / Cinema

Vlad Ivanov: “Romanian Movies Don’t Offer Solutions”

George Popescu, Ionuț Dulămiță

I wanted to learn more about one of the greatest stage and screen actors in post-communist Romania.

English, please / War

"We feel real shame for what’s going on." Russian Activist Speaks out Against Putin

Ioana Pelehatăi

We spoke to a member of the Russian Pirate Party about the country's president, the war, and (dis)information on the internet

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 / 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

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 / War

Will Russia Invade Moldova?

Michael Bird

How, where and with what justification could Russia launch an attack?

English, please

The early bird catches the sound. In Conversation with Tomáš Šenkyřík, musicologist and acoustic ecologist

Vlad Hodrea

An interview about sound as a form of care, about how nature can be saved step by step — with patience, gentleness, and attention — and about how we might learn to truly listen to the world around us, if we wake up early enough and let the birds do the talking.

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 / Protest

Why Are the Statues Falling?

Manuela Boatcă

The statues of influential historical figures, who stand accused of racism today, have started to be toppled in America and Europe. What do we stand to learn from their collapse?

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.

English, please / Film

Half an Hour of Tom Hardy’s Life (and Mine, Too)

Luiza Vasiliu

I met one of my favorite actors in Stockholm. We talked Taboo, kids & parents, acting & storytelling, power & corruption.

English, please / Actori

“No One Has Ever Applauded Me Before”

Delia Marinescu, Ehsan Ghoreishi

How a heterosexual, Roma man from a traditional community in Ploiești, father of three, came to play the lead in a film about gay love.

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 / War

We don’t talk about the war here

Michael Bird

I worked for over a month as a volunteer trying to help Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest, and this is what I found.

English, please / București

Following Măiastra Through the Streets of Bucharest. An Interview with Timothy Stanley

Bogdan Bălan

A discussion with an American artist settled in Romania, about his favorite sculptures in Bucharest, about the life he made here, but also about his book, written from the perspective of a fictional Romanian art historian.

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 / 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”.