English, please / Literature
How’s Mihail Sebastian Doing in the UK?
Luiza Vasiliu
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.
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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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Film
San Sebastian Film Festival (#2): The Body Politic
Ioana Pelehatăi
Day 2 of my San Sebastian IFF experience: bodies constructed and politics. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sigourney Weaver, Oliver Stone, and Ken Loach.
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 / Război în Ucraina
“Your president is bombing your relatives”. Moscow Dispatch with a Russian Journalist
Constantin Cojocaru, Delia Marinescu, Loreta Isac Cojocaru
A Russian journalist speaks about propaganda, media censorship and solidarity with Ukraine.
English, please / Cinema
Cristi Puiu: I’m Not a Director
Răzvan Chiruță
Cristi Puiu's latest movie has just opened in the 2016 edition of the International Film Festival. Check out how shooting went down and what strange events happened.
English, please / Protest
Why I Skipped Work and Joined the Protests
Mihai Mateaș
„Stay right there, Mișu. We’ll take care of your work today”
English, please / Festival
“I’m Not Fond of Nostalgia.” An Interview with Radu Jude
Luiza Vasiliu
I talked to film director Radu Jude about his latest movie „Țara moartă” (“The Dead Nation”). A documentary about a Romania we don’t wish to remember.