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.
Căutare
după "noaptea alba a galeriilor"
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.
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 / 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 / Literature
“We’ll Be an Egg, with One Eye and One Finger”
Adi Bulboacă, Andra Matzal
I talked to writer Andrei Codrescu about poetry, the internet, silence and the American presidential campaign.
English, please / Generația 9
“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 / 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 / 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 / Ukraine
“People won't be coming back here anytime soon.” Ukraine’s Eastern War Front in 7 Snapshots
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 / 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 / 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 / Viață&co
FC ROMANIA
Oana Țenter
For the past thirteen years, an eighth league football team has been bringing together Romanian migrants and pro-Brexit Brits.
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 / 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 / Cinema
"Life is more non-linear and faster"
Vlad Odobescu
For about 15 years, Kasia and David have been building stories in which the viewer becomes an actor and is able to push the script further, as in a video game.
English, please
From Crime to Community: The Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets in Italy, Spain and Romania
Victor Ilie, Natalie Sclippa, Paolo Valenti, Álvaro García, Nacho Gallello, Luiza Vasiliu
From crime to community: the social reuse of confiscated assets is a cross-border investigation by Lavialibera (Italy), Scena9 (Romania) and Maldita.es (Spain) that explores reuse practices in the three countries highlighting their impact, challenges, and possible solutions.
English, please / Literature
“We Built Rio de Janeiro on a Cemetery of Slaves”
Luiza Vasiliu
A writer is filming his Brasil.
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 / Holocaust
In Iași, an Art Exhibition Awakens the City’s Sleeping Giant
Luiza Vasiliu
I attended the first collective contemporary art exhibition about the Holocaust in Romania.
English, please / Visual arts
When Your Cat is the Only Person Who Understands You
Luiza Vasiliu
Andreea Chirică has drawn depression, loneliness, and 30+ disillusionment in “Home Alone”, one of the best books made in Romania published last year.
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 / Music
Sound as a Whole. In Conversation with Stephane Marin, Musician and Sound Artist
Vlad Hodrea
A group of creative people received a copious amount of lessons on sound in a sound art workshop organised by Semi Silent, under the guidance of Stephane Marin.