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Advertise on Cineuropa Logos and Banners PRODUCTION / FUNDING Romania / Germany by Ştefan Dobroiu explores the consequences that employment-based immigration has on families The screenplay, written by Ruxandra Ghiţescu (whose Otto the Barbarian [+see also: film reviewinterview: Ruxandra Ghiţescufilm profile] has just been nominated in as many as 13 categories at the Gopos a former teacher who leaves her family in a poor Romanian village to work as a live-in nanny for a German family Her son Ionuţ (Luca Puia) misses her deeply and a decision that he makes will force Clara to reconsider her path in life The director tells Cineuropa that his film is deeply personal as he was one of the many children left behind by (as many as five million according to some sources) Romanians searching for better work opportunities abroad or in other cities and I felt the need to pour my soul into a film about this very timely Romanian issue,” the director explains which symbolically connects Clara’s native village and her adoptive new home in Ulm Finding the right young actor to play his child protagonist was of paramount importance and after meeting more than 100 young actors Dorohoi made the acquaintance of little Luca Puia almost by accident and he was of the right age and had the exact look I was searching for He learned the lines for the audition on the spot and that was really impressive,” the director says gushingly of his discovery and a domestic release is expected for 2023 Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox 02/05/2025Production / Funding – Italy Shooting begins on Walter Fasano’s Nino, a portrait of scoring maestro Nino Rota 02/05/2025Production / Funding – Belgium Wallimage is backing Michaël R Roskam's Le Faux Soir 30/04/2025Production / Funding – Italy The final clapperboard slams on Il falsario, starring Pietro Castellitto 30/04/2025Production / Funding – UK/France/Germany Sally Potter’s Alma to star Pamela Anderson and Dakota Fanning 29/04/2025Production / Funding – Spain Claudia Pinto finishes filming Morir no siempre sale bien 29/04/2025Production / Funding – Latvia The National Film Centre of Latvia unveils the recipients of its latest round of funding Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the most important daily or weekly news on European cinema Crossing Europe 2025 Review: Callas, Darling Cannes 2025 Marché du Film The Party’s Over! leads France TV Distribution’s Cannes slate CPH:DOX 2025 CPH:DOX Industry Europa Distribution explores the release of documentaries at CPH:DOX Cannes 2025 Marché du Film AFCI runs its second annual Global Film Commission Network Summit at Marché du Film Festivals / Awards Czech Republic Czech Republic’s Anifilm goes sci-fi Distribution / Releases / Exhibitors Europe European Arthouse Cinema Day set to return on 23 November Cannes 2025 Marché du Film Indie Sales presents a three-star line-up at Cannes HOFF 2025 The Shadow and U Are the Universe win at Estonia’s Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival Crossing Europe 2025 Awards The New Year That Never Came and The Flats crowned at Crossing Europe Cannes 2025 Marché du Film Be For Films to sell Love Me Tender in Cannes Cannes 2025/Sponsored Latvia set to shine bright at Cannes, led by Sergei Loznitsa’s competition entry Two Prosecutors Las Palmas 2025 MECAS/Awards Manuel Muñoz Rivas and Joana Carro win awards at the eighth MECAS Market TrendsFOCUSA busy spring festival season awaits the European film industry. 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The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is a leading generator of new knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust. 2014Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyIn my teens I asked my Great Aunt Rose where in Romania our family had come from “It was a horrible place and we were lucky to get out of there There’s no reason for anyone to go back.” I begged her to tell me at least the name of the place She gave me an uncharacteristically steely glare and said again “I don’t remember.” That was the end of the conversation My paternal grandfather—Aunt Rose’s brother a farm laborer—preceded her to the United States when he was sixteen He was processed at Ellis Island and then settled in New York City where he made neckties out of dress remnants He insured that my father got a good education and my family has lived in prosperity ever since I’ve often wondered about the life my grandfather left behind Presumably my forebears had inquiring and capacious minds much like mine and my father’s and I have often pondered what it would be like to be us and to live like that Fifteen years ago, my friend Leslie Hawke moved to Romania and founded an N.G.O., OvidiuRo I joined her board in part because I saw a parallel between the oppression of my Jewish ancestors and the oppression of the Roma We had bettered our lives through education outside Romania; they might better theirs with access to schooling in Romania When a Romanian publisher bought the rights to my book “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression,” last year it reignited my curiosity about this ancestral place I saw an elegant circularity in the contrast between my grandfather’s departure in destitution and my return as a published author A second cousin I had dredged up on Facebook said that she thought we hailed from Dorohoi a small city about two hundred and fifty miles north of Bucharest An amateur genealogist friend offered to do further research and she unearthed papers confirming that the family had indeed come from Dorohoi; my grandfather and two brothers had sailed steerage from Hamburg in 1900 sending for their parents and siblings four years later My publisher worried that Romanians might not be ready to talk openly about depression but the zeitgeist had shifted more than they had guessed agreed to write an introduction and to participate in the book launch and in my first two days there I was interviewed on all three major television networks A large crowd squeezed into a bookstore for the inaugural event and “The Noonday Demon” went into a second printing the next day But all was not to go as smoothly as planned. Before I arrived, Leslie had been in touch with Florin Buhuceanu, who leads ACCEPT Leslie’s friend Genevieve had a connection to the Central University Library a spectacular building in central Bucharest with an impressive lecture theatre that was opened They agreed that this would be an ideal place for me to speak to Bucharest’s L.G.B.T Genevieve arranged a meeting with the library director after what Leslie and Florin said was a very cordial hour-long discussion confirmed that the hall was available and that she would be delighted for the lecture to be held there Florin thanked her for her courage in supporting an L.G.B.T and posted details about the event on Facebook Putin’s homophobic shadow falls long in Eastern Europe and in early June the Romanian Chamber of Deputies defeated a bill that would have granted legal recognition to gay couples with two hundred and ninety-eight votes against angrily accused her of lying about the nature of the lecture and said that the library would never host an event in which gay identity was to be discussed she did not return either Florin’s or Leslie’s multiple messages Many of the questions pertained to my family life—what it was like to have a husband and children how it felt to find acceptance from my father and in a wider social context—which was as unimaginable to them as my life of relative affluence would have been to my great-grandparents Several attendees said that they dreamed of immigrating to a place where they could find such acceptance Too many described severe depression as a result of social oppression and several alluded to the change of venue for my lecture as an example of that problem While it was hardly comparable to a pogrom the incident helped me to imagine what it might have been like for my family to belong to a group that most Romanians found repugnant Leslie and I drove seven hours to a horse farm in the north Moldavian highlands eating rustic food and drinking homemade blackberry brandy we picked up one of the last Jews in the county It was haunting to look at the gently rolling landscape on our approach and think of my grandfather and his grandfather seeing those same hills Life seemed to have changed little in the elapsed century; farmers in oxcarts were going about their labor women in head scarves were hoeing the fields by hand faces had the cracked skin that comes from brutal summers and brutal winters too close in succession up a long dirt road; it was locked behind a tall metal fence but a man who lived nearby had the key and for about five dollars each he let us in The cemetery was in a state of profound neglect—but so is everything else near Dorohoi A lowing cow wandered among the tombstones many from people born after my grandfather had emigrated It’s impossible to know for sure whether these are my relatives but the Jewish community was never enormous (there are about forty-five hundred Jewish graves in the county) and it seems likely that my namesakes are my relatives I placed stones on some of the graves (Jewish tradition is to place a stone rather than to bring flowers) and thought about these people who could have left and didn’t which was just a barn with a Star of David on it One of the graves had an inscription memorializing the Solomons who had died “at the hands of Hitler”; many of those dead had names that occur elsewhere in our family A memorial at the center of the burial ground commemorates the five thousand Jews who were taken from the area “We were lucky to get out of there.” I had hoped she might not be entirely right that this European source of the family would be at least picturesque that I’d have a surprising sense of identification with the place I didn’t know how despondent it would make me to imagine being trapped in that life I’ve reported from war zones and deprived societies for decades but they have always been profoundly other and this felt shockingly accessible—I could have been born here I wondered who in my family might have stood underneath these trees and relished the same taste I thought how my own children would have scarfed down those cherries if they had been with me And I suddenly had the revelation that my forebears had been children in their day—that this place had been visited not only by old men with beards but by boys and girls who would have climbed the fruit trees to reap the plenty of their upper branches I looked at the local peasants and thought that if their forefathers had not burned down the houses of mine And I looked at what had happened to us in two generations and looked at what hadn’t happened to them in two or three and instead of feeling outraged by their history of aggression I felt privileged by it Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators While those who are ravaging their neighbors’ lives exhaust their energy on that destruction those whose lives are being shattered must expend their vigor on solutions—some of which can be exquisite Hatred drove my family to the United States and its previously unimaginable freedoms The conditions in the Roma settlements to which Leslie took me next made Dorohoi look like East Hampton Where the peasants of northern Romania ate badly the Gypsies of Colonia were going hungry; while the peasants lived short lives the Gypsies showed obvious signs of illness The peasants may not have had good plumbing but the Gypsies had none at all; they defecated in the surrounding pasture fifteen hundred Roma children are getting the early education that might help them break out of their poverty and hoped they could escape becoming like the morose teen-agers and glassy-eyed adults who sat around Colonia in the squalor He said that he would be writing an official letter about the matter to the Romanian government “A human-rights organization militating for L.G.B.T rights in Romania cannot access a lecture hall in the most important library in Bucharest An illustrious American writer and journalist should not speak about sexuality and identity in a cultural institution will be disregarded in an academic and literary setting because of the sexual orientation of their authors?” Remus Cernea told the press that he had asked the education ministry to punish the people responsible within the Central University Library (After being called out on the floor of the parliament and in the press the library officials have made a ludicrous claim that it was a “bad approach.”) BUCHAREST: Sabin Dorohoi is currently in production with his debut feature Clara This drama on the social phenomenon of migration of labour force is a Romanian/German coproduction The film script written by Ruxandra Ghițescu follows a young woman who leaves her small son and her poor Romanian village to go working in Germany Clara is based on Dorohoi’s award winning short film Way of the Danube / Calea Dunării (2013) The main characters are played by Olga Török and Luca Puia “It is always enjoyable to work on a debut feature I was willing to help tell an interesting story which follows a historical route because Germans from Ulm came by boat to the Romanian region of Banat some 300 years ago The Danube is an important character in the film the mothers who leave their children to work abroad are causing a major debate in the European Union nowadays (...) We are happy for the partnership with ZDF and it is important for us not to let it down,” producer Dan Burlac told FNE The shooting started in Ulm on 2 March and continued at the Danube’s Big Boilers (Cazanele Mari) on 7 March 2022 It will continue in the Romanian town of Reșița till 5 April 2022 The film is expected to be ready by the end of 2022 and to enter the festival circuit at the beginning of 2023 It will be theatrically released in Romania in 2023 Click Here for Statements from European Film Organisations The Film New Europe (FNE) Association is the networking platform for film professionals in the CEE/SEE/Baltics region The webportal and FNE newswire was chosen as the MAIN TOOL to achieve the network’s objectives of the sharing of know how visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the VOICE of the region FNE’s objectives include VISIBILITY for the region and AUDIENCES for films by providing a special focus on the region Powered by Bury Free Press, Suffolk Free Press, Newmarket Journal & Haverhill Echo Powered by Bury Free Press, Suffolk Free Press, Newmarket Journal and Haverhill Echo Home   Bury St Edmunds   News   Article two downpours and some sunshine - the first day of the spring fayre in Bury St Edmunds had it all organised by Our Bury St Edmunds Business Improvement District (BID) yesterday and the fun is set to continue today plant and craft stalls as well as a flower food and craft market and a vintage market said: “The ominous pre-event weather forecast gave me huge concerns but despite two heavy showers yesterday afternoon the weather overall was good and consequently the urban beach was a huge success “Our dinosaur visitors in the arc were very popular with both youngsters and adults “The craft market on Angel Hill was very popular as was the vintage market in the Buttermarket “All are available again today as are our virtual reality games and the expertise of the Athenaeum Astronomy stand “The weather forecast suggests no rain so ideal weather for people to pop along and see all that’s on offer on the second day of our spring fayre.” On the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine this event aims to delve into the realms of journalism and architecture focusing particularly on the destruction brought by war The event begins with a screening of the short documentary film ‘89 Days’ (20 min) directed by Pavlo Dorohoi followed by discussion with Vasilisa Stepanenko Pulitzer Prize winning Ukrainian video journalist Borderland: A Journey through the History of the Ukraine Ukrainian architectural and urban historian author of the book Being a Ukrainian Architect During Wartime.  How do journalists react to the devastation of the built environment War doesn't afford the luxury of distant observation – it doesn't permit first-hand reporting from the scene there can be no retrospective view offered by historians there exists only the immediacy of "now," and it is within this realm that journalism operates.  ‘89 days’ film summary: Since the first days of the war the subway has become a bomb shelter for many Kharkiv residents they have been equipping it for a more or less comfortable life But the local government and the subway management want to vacate the subway of its residents and launch the transit network again.  This event is organised by the Architecture & Historic Urban Environments MA.  Vasilisa Stepanenko is a Pulitzer Prize winning Ukrainian video journalist and investigative reporter working for The Associated Press whose front-line work – in both breaking news and investigations – focuses on issues of human rights and social justice especially related to the war in her country She is a field producer for the Oscar and BAFTA nominated documentary “20 Days in Mariupol”.  Pavlo Dorohoi is the Director of ‘89 Days’ he studied at the DOKDOKDOK school of contemporary photography he directed his first short documentary film Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion he has focused on documenting the situation in Kharkiv and the region His photographs have been published in many European publications and the American New York Times and New Yorker he worked on a documentary about the lives of people in the Kharkiv subway during the first months of the war. His feature-length documentary METRO 2022 won the EFM award at our 2nd edition of the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2022.  Anna Reid is an English journalist and author whose work focuses primarily on the history of Eastern Europe and a master’s in Russian history from London University’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies She was Kyiv correspondent for the Economist and the Daily Telegraph from 1993 to 1995 From 2003 to 2007 she worked for the British think-tank Policy Exchange editing several of their publications and running the foreign affairs programme was published to wide acclaim in 1997.  Her work focuses on architecture and urban planning of the 20th century in Ukraine with a multidisciplinary approach to heritage studies Jenia is a co-founder of Urban Forms Center a leading Ukrainian NGO that specialises in the study She is the author of the books Slavutych: Architectural Guide (2015) and Soviet Modernism Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955–1991 (2019) In 2020–2021 She curated the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Architecture an online multimedia project that worked with architecture Being a Ukrainian Architect During Wartime was released offering insights into her experiences against the backdrop of the war.  Image Caption: Children in Subway - still from 89 Days Altex will open a new unit in Dorohoi on August 31 within the commercial complex NEST Dorohoi This is the first  Altex store in Dorohoi and the second that the company will open in 2017 The store has a surface of 600 sqm. we offer Dorohoi citizens access to a modern technology at accessible prices The store offers clients a wide range of products a specialists team prepared to offer consultancy to choose the most suitable technology solutions and special promotions,” said Daniel Mirea We use cookies for keeping our website reliable and secure providing social media features and to analyse how our website is used An opportunity to purchase a large cropping operation of almost 4,000ha has presented itself in north east Romania One of the features of this farm is that 3,072ha are owned with the remaining 916ha leased in – this is unusual in Romania The company was established and began purchasing land in 2007 and the yard was purchased in 2010 High-quality clay loams are the principal soil types present and in recent years maize wheat and soya have made up three quarters of the crops grown the company is being sold with land and buildings as the main asset 2,000ha are operated under a Joint Venture Agreement there is no machinery being sold with the farm The large silo storage bins each have the capacity to hold 3,000 tons of grain The main yard extends to just under 14ac and includes an office and accommodation There is also further storage in the form of sheds There is plenty scope for further expansion within the yard if required The land farmed is located between Dorohoi and Botosani the company headquarters is 40km from the international airport in Suceava there is a guide price of €10,000/ ha for the owned land Contact us Advertise with us Company information Career opportunities Privacy statement Terms of service Commenting policy Change cookies settings Change cookies settings