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The Holiday Market International Tourism Fair will include a seminar by representatives of Google Ireland Ltd. The round table, called “Google and the Tourism: the Challenge of Online Advertising and Sales”, will debate the best ways to promote and distribute tourism offers through the internet.

Over 30 documentaries will be broadcast in four movie theaters in Bucharest as part of the third One World Romania festival, the only documentary festival in Romania showcasing human rights themes. The event takes place between March 17 and 22.

Gotan Project, whose hits include Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre), Differente, Una Musica Brutal and Queremos Paz, have announced they will return to Romania on June 25 for a concert at the Palace Hall, to promote their latest tour Tango 3.0, which will begin on April 7. The tour will take in other countries such as Poland, Greece, Bulgaria and Austria.

B’Estfest, the most popular summer festival in the Romanian calendar, will take a year off. In its stead comes the Ciuc Summer Fest, a smaller music event, organizers Emag!c Entertainment have announced. Three acts have already been confirmed for the event, which will take place between July 16 and 18 at the Iolanda Balas Soter Stadium. Tickets for each day of the Ciuc Summer Fest can be bought online from the site www.myticket.ro and from Diverta stores as of next week, priced at RON 90, RON 160 and RON 220.

Otilia Haraga

Bob Dylan will perform for the first time in Romania at Bucharest’s Iolanda Balas stadium on June 2. The show is part of the Never Ending Tour and will take place in Romania under a new festival concept called Emagic Classics, organized by Emagic Entertainment.

US rockers Aerosmith will come to Romania for the first time to play a concert at Romexpo on June 18.

Those with a passion for watches and history might enjoy the exhibition Pocket Watches at Horologivm (5 Boteanu St.).

Warning: if you have just been dumped by a lover or spouse, if you are single and unhappy about it, or if you are the tiniest bit disposed towards feelings of depression, do not go within ten miles of watching Valentine’s Day. This sugary slush-fest will have all but the most loved-up and smugly attached viewers weeping in the aisles at the hopelessness of their lonely lot in life. It will have lovers of good movies weeping in the aisles for different reasons.

Imagine, if you will, that your life is unremittingly bleak. You live in a dreary town in the north of England, where you work as a postman. You alienated the love of your live decades ago and she won’t speak to you. You have ended up living with your two foul-mouthed, work-shy, teenage stepsons who, when not lolling about the house, watching porn on TV and smoking joints, are stashing guns for the local gangster.

Romanian film If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, by director Florin Serban, a runner-up in the Berlin International Film Festival, has been awarded two important accolades: the Silver Bear, which is the jury prize in the festival, as well as the Alfred Bauer award for artistic innovation. Serban’s feature-length debut is based on a theater play written by Andreea Valean.