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A photo exhibition featuring two workshops taking place in Tibanesti center for promoting traditional Romanian crafts will open next week, on November 8, at Café Verona.

The Romanian Cultural Institute will host on November 10 and 11 the third edition of the Irish Film  Days. The event is organized by the Irish Embassy in Bucharest, in partnership with the Irish Film Institute, Reel Ireland, Culture Ireland and the Romanian Cultural Institute. Films to be shown include The Irish Dog Whisperer, Pentecost, Shoe, Kisses, Hearing Silence, The Night Nurse

The Duke Ellington orchestra will be back in Bucharest on November 10 for a two-hour pure jazz concert to take place at Sala Palatului in Bucharest. The 16 musicians who have undertaken the task of carrying on the legacy of Duke Ellington will be led by conductor and piano player Tommy James.

Claudiu Crulic was 33 when he died of self-imposed starvation in a Polish prison in 2007. He had lost about half his body weight and resembled a man twice his age. These sobering facts are relayed in the first few minutes of Anca Damian’s animated documentary. The film then goes back in time to Claudiu’s childhood, weaving family photographs and biographical details with quirky, almost childlike, hand drawn images. The effect is discomfiting, the scenes at once brutally real and unreal.

Debbie Stowe

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A wiser man than I once wrote “how many truths make up a lie?” The answer: “It takes a multitude of truths to embellish a lie and thereby give it credibility.” These words hold true in the civilized world, but clearly the author had never visited Romania.

Michael Barclay

Wild Carpathia is an astonishing documentary produced by the European Nature Trust about the beauty of the native forest land covering a large part of the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. Paul Lister, founder of the trust, talks to Business Review about his philanthropic work focused on Romania – “Europe’s Garden of Eden”, as he calls it.

Anca Ionita

The Travel Channel will start airing October 30^th a documentary featuring Romania’s Carpathian area. The documentary, which is titled Wild Carpathia, is funded by the European Nature Trust TENT.

To all those who have read a book by Agatha Christie or are familiar with detective films the likes of Poirot , Sherlock Holmes, or even Midsummer Murders, the plot behind Murder At Dinner will not seem foreign.
Otilia Haraga

A fashion show featuring three Romanian designers was held last week in support of the Scheherazade foundation's latest project to raise funds for the modernization of the Sfanta Maria hospital in Iasi.

Dana Niculescu

1960s’ Mississippi. Not a great time to be a woman. An even worse time to be a black woman. The latter survive by working as maids for white families, raising their children, cooking their food and cleaning up their mess.

Debbie Stowe