One to Remember For the Next 30 Years
On Friday the 15 th of March 2019, the official opening of the One World Romania International Human Rights & Documentary Film will be taking place at Universul Palace. We have prepared an unusual opening, a day full of events from which it is hard to choose – from noon till after midnight.
The official opening day begins at 12:00 at Apollo111 with the special screening of the documentary “Dead Souls”, by Chinese director Wang Bing. The film having been present in prestigious festival all around the world, such as the ones in Cannes, Toronto or Sao Paolo, we are glad to be able to offer the Bucharest cinema lovers the unique chance to watch this impressive documentary. After the 9-hour marathon-screening – which includes two breaks in between – we will be discussing the documentary with Andrei Gorzo, one of the most important film critics in Romania. More information about the film and about tickets here.
Starting from 17:00 at Mezanin, we welcome you to the PechaKucha event. Recent history and reticent history. We have invited 10 people with great initiative whom we admire and who look at the past from a different perspective. We want to find out how we can escape from the old-fashioned way history is being taught and how we can be more aware of historic moments that have gone into oblivion. We will be talking about history and alternative education in PechaKucha format with school students, university students, sportsmen, artists or journalist, as well as with you, the One World Romania audience. The event will be free entrance, but seats are limited, so make a reservation here!
At Mezanin from 20:00, the debate “From citizen to political figure: civic movements and political parties in the 90s”. What can we learn today from the time period after the Revolution and from the people who tried to change something, organizing themselves in the street, or further entering (or not) politics? Ana Blandiana, Radu Filipescu, Mona Muscă, Smaranda Enache and Radu Vancu will be sharing their own experiences, in a discussion mediated by Alexandru Solomon. The event will be free entrance, but seats are limited, so make a reservation here!
Friday the 15 th of March, at Linotip, we will be enjoying a new performance by Nicoleta Lefter. “An tan tina” is an adaptation of Ana Blandiana’s book “Fals tratat de manipulare” (Fake treatise on manipulation) and – as Nicoleta Lefter puts it - “it is an attempt to relate to the politically curious times we are currently living in Romania. (…) What happened 30 years ago in December 1989 signified to me an act of courage and not the manipulative exploitation of young people by the communist system. (… ) “An tan tina” is a parallel between the kind of manipulative behavior that was used in communism and the one that is used today.” The two performances on the Opening Day at OWR will be happening at 17:00 and 22:00, with tickets available here. “An tan tina” can also be seen during the festival, at POINT, on the following days: the 16 th , 18 th , 20 th , 22 nd , 24 th of March, from 22:00. Tickets available here.
At Salonul de proiecte, starting from 19:00, and 21:00 respectively, we have programmed two special Sahia Vintage projections. Since the central theme of this year’s edition is the passing of 30 years since the Revolution, the selected short films include the year 1989 and the following years. How did the documentary filmmakers at the time go through the regime change and the other changes that came with it? How did they get rid of the labels they were given during the communist era and what was the impact on their films? Let us find together how the archives can help us rethink our relationship with the past. After each Sahia Vintage screening, we will be discussing with Adina Brădeanu, curator of the project, and our hosts from Salonul de proiecte, Alexandra Croitoru and Ștefan Sava, what we will have seen. Tickets for the two screenings “Of Lives and Lessons” and “Of Time and Times” are available on Eventbook.
After a day full of screenings and debates, we will be needing some dance and relaxation, so from 23:00 we invite you to Apollo111 for a concert and party with Future Nuggets – Love Never Gets Out of Style. Together with Future Nuggets, we will be offering a pop, neuro-vision evening, with obscure stars from Bucharest. Among the guests we have Inana (Thomas Hofer) with one of the newest styles, hypnagogic pop, a producer studied in hybrids, Fraga (Andreea Fraga), another unique ghetto-femme
synthesis, a future forbidding producer, Aneb/Plevna (Horațiu Șerbănescu), an irreplace collaborator of Future Nuggets, and the ascending voice of Sarra, whose force we are just beginning to feel. Tickets to the part are available here. To show you how unmissable this event is, we leave you with this sample of the super-concert.
