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English, please / Film

I Know What You Did Last Night

Luiza Vasiliu

I met in London with the team of "The Night Of", the new HBO series.

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 / Activism

“We are misfits of architecture.” A Conversation with & about Forensic Architecture

Nicoleta Moise

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.

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 / Music

One Hour of Sun with Son Lux

Andra Matzal, Luiza Vasiliu

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.

English, please / Exotic

How to Get Close to People. From the Teachings of 8 Photographers

Larisa Baltă

3 questions about the world of photo reportage and the ethical approach to photography, from 8 pros.

English, please / Teenagers

My Classmates Told Me I Should Die

Lina Vdovîi, Sorina Vazelina

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.

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 / Visual arts

“This Museum Shall Be a Barricade”

Vlad Odobescu

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.

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

In Romania and Ukraine, the Danube Delta Is Hurting. Can We Do Anything to Heal It?

Viktoriia Hubareva, Oana Filip, Ioana Cîrlig

After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Danube Delta habitat became threatened by the war and the increased naval traffic it brought to the region. This is the story of that impact, but also of the solutions that people on both the Ukrainian and Romanian sides of the Delta are working on to protect this area.

English, please / Stuff

Living in Bucharest: A How-to

Ioana Pelehatăi

Bucharest Housing Stories explains the business of living in the capital, from the ghetto to luxury villas, via documentaries and anthropological research.

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 / Ukraine

Two Ukrainian Independence Days in Romania

Ioana Pelehatăi, Volodymyr Artiukh

A Romanian journalist and a Ukrainian anthropologist compare and contrast notes on two different (yet at times strikingly similar) Ukraine Independence Day events in Romania's capital.

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 / 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 / Media&digital

John Oliver, a Discreet Superman

Luiza Vasiliu

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.

English, please / Media&digital

The journalist who talks to ISIS members: “I am not fearless”

Diana Meseșan

“Sometimes we are the only witnesses”, Rukmini says. “Bearing witness to these events is important. If not, it’s as if they never happened.”

English, please / Ukraine

Larisa Kalik: "I'm not afraid of explosions, but I would be afraid of harming a person with an inappropriate photo"

Ioana Pelehatăi, Larisa Kalik

For two years, a young journalist and photographer has been traveling to all the pain points on the map of Ukraine to show us the war that's unfurling in her home country.

English, please

Beautiful Means Thin. Thin as Can Be.

Simina Popescu

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.

English, please / War

„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.

English, please / Expoziție

Romanian Artist Andra Ursuța Brings Apocalypse to Aegean Island

Bogdan Bălan

During art week on the island of Hydra, amidst mules, freddo espresso and art collectors with astronomical budgets, Andrei Ursuța’s sculptures installed the apocalypse in the space where animals once awaited sacrifice — a slaughterhouse overlooking the Aegean Sea.

English, please / Brâncuși

The Origins of the Cult of Brâncuși. An Interview with Alexandra Croitoru

Luiza Vasiliu

Who is Brancusi? Why is he among us? When did his reception go from being strictly aesthetic to the emergence of a genuine cult? What did communists believe about Brancusi? What do you think?

English, please / Education

What Central European University Means for Free Education and Democracy

Andra Matzal

8 CEU graduates remind us why keeping political control away from this university is vital for the freedom of education and democracy.