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.
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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 / America
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.
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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 / 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 / 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 / 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, 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 / Fotbal
FC ROMANIA
Oana Țenter
For the past thirteen years, an eighth league football team has been bringing together Romanian migrants and pro-Brexit Brits.