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.
Căutare
după "noaptea alba a galeriilor"
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 / Depression
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.
English, please / Film
Fantastic Mr. Fox’s Visit to Bucharest
Ioana Pelehatăi
The animator for Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” tells you how much detail work, artistry, and effort goes into stop motion animation.
English, please / Photography
Horia Manolache’s American Dream
Ioana Pelehatăi
What motivated Romanian photographer Horia Manolache to capture the homeless people of San Francisco? What does it mean to be successful?
English, please / Press
Edicola 518. Infinity in 4 Square Meters
Emilia Barbu
In Perugia, a town at the heart of Italy, a newsstand seemingly popped up out of nowhere to shake up the world.
English, please / Film
Berlinale Diary #1: Survival Guide
Ioana Pelehatăi
How I kept cold, overwhelmed, and enthusiastic while watching movies at the 67th Berlinale Film Festival.
English, please / Literature
Romanian Society Was Dissolute
Andra Matzal
How to understand better the situation of the women in Romania nowadays from a book about the history of Wallachia written two centuries ago
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 / 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.
English, please / War
"There is a war in their country." How Moldova Is Receiving Ukrainian Refugees
Andreea Câmpeanu, Delia Marinescu
We went to the Palanca border and to Chișinău, in order to write about both the people who managed to escape the bullets and those who are receiving them.
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 / În afara bulei
“I won't possibly see her again.” A Mother Explains How She Lost Her Daughter to the Children of the Sun Cult
Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu
The mother of a current Children of the Sun member speaks about how her daughter has changed since moving to Children of Sun.