Wednesday, on March 8, from 19:00, ONE WORLD ROMANIA #16 with the Embassy of Spain in Romania and the Instituto Cervantes in Bucharest invite you to the screening of the documentary "The Yellow Ceiling", followed by a debate on the topic of gender equality and the increasingly perverse and dangerous forms that the exercise of power takes on women in Romania in 2023.

Isabel Coixet's film focuses on the artistic environment and the imagery that surrounds it, an imagery that creates the necessary atmosphere to normalize manipulation and the instrumentalization of the vulnerability specific to participation in an artistic act.

The case study is the scandal triggered at the youth theater in Lleida, Spain, when several former students denounced the harassment they were subjected to by the institution's director, a charismatic actor and respected educator. Through the voices of the victims, now adults, who admirably dive back into their teenage confusion and fragility, the film describes not only an isolated event but a criminal method of turning the specific dedication to both artistic vocation and romantic passion into a form of physical and psychological enslavement.

After the film, we continue with a discussion (in Romanian only) about the attempts to restrict women's freedoms in Romania (from workplace harassment to limiting access to abortion in public hospitals) in an increasingly polarized society that is witnessing a resurgence of the concept of masculinity. The following individuals will participate in the dialogue:

Professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bucharest, with a PhD in Sociology (EHESS Paris, 2005) and habilitation in Political Science (2017). Her main areas of expertise include gender studies, political representation of women, history of feminism, and equality of opportunity policies after 1989. She is the director of the Center for Equality of Opportunity Policies, founder and coordinator of the Master's program in Equality of Opportunity Policies in the Romanian and European context (at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest).

She is the executive director of eLiberare, an NGO that fights against human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Romania. She is also the coordinator of ProTECT, the platform of the 22 anti-trafficking NGOs in Romania. Previously, she worked as a counselor for protection and social justice at the Ministry of Labor, and for two years she was a member of the Economic and Social Council. She graduated from a community solutions program at the US Department of State and is a fellow at the Aspen Institute Romania.