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„I Became a Prisoner in my own House”
Andrei Nicolescu, Delia Marinescu
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.
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.
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".
For the past decade, Forensic Architecture have been conducting extensive investigations from around the world, with and on behalf of individuals or communities directly affected by conflict, police forces, or border regimes.
“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.
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?
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.
A writer is filming his Brasil.
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.
He's doing quite well, thank you very much. His interwar novel on the life of a young Jew was published in 2016 in the Modern Classics collection at Penguin.
Instead of labels and displays, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant asks the visitor to seek and uncoil the meanings of objects on their own.
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.
3 questions about the world of photo reportage and the ethical approach to photography, from 8 pros.
8 CEU graduates remind us why keeping political control away from this university is vital for the freedom of education and democracy.
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.
I talked to writer Andrei Codrescu about poetry, the internet, silence and the American presidential campaign.
In February 2018 I headed over the Atlantic to meet John Oliver. What I talked to him about, who’s the Brit who changed the way we watch the news and how we can (can we?) bring order to the chaos around us—find out next.
Festival Report: Edinburgh International Book Festival, one of the biggest of its kind in the world.
A tour of Geta Brătescu’s art. The first woman artist with a solo exhibition at the Romanian Pavilion in Venice.
What motivated Romanian photographer Horia Manolache to capture the homeless people of San Francisco? What does it mean to be successful?
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.”
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.
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.