“Trust without believing”: How Azerbaijani youth consume media they don’t trust
“I don’t trust the media.” Among Azerbaijani youth, this sentence is not a provocation or a political statement.
Social media, minors and mental health – how to navigate these complex topics?
A conversation with youth workers on guiding minors through social media use while protecting mental health and healthy communication.
Debate Kit – Airplane transportation
The advent of the airplane completely changed our perception of the world: it is now possible to travel everywhere, even to the other side of the world. Must we do without airplanes to travel?
Cinema as history: exploring communism and the Holocaust – a chronicle of three films and a civic initiative
Cinema was used as a tool to revisit recent history in an educational experiment that brought together high-school students, actors, Romanian directors, and analysts, within the initiative “The Screen of Memory – The Missing Chapters of the History Book”.
Actor Ștefan Iancu on “Freedom”: where courage meets liberty
Actor Ștefan Iancu emphasised the value of freedom and invited young audiences to explore recent history through cinema, experiencing stories of courage, truth, and liberty on screen.
Raluca Radu on the film “Bloody Photographs”: “In Romania, very little is said about the Holocaust and about the Iași Pogrom.”
Prof. Dr. Raluca Radu, a media researcher and professor at the University of Bucharest, highlighted the value of using teaching methods suited to young people’s visual understanding of history.
Actor Iulian Postelnicu brought Romania’s past to life in “Freedom”
Based on real event, the film "Freedom", directed by Tudor Giurgiu, captures the struggles and moral dilemmas of Romania’s recent communist years.
A Cannes-awarded film reintroduces the dramas of the communist era to GenZi
The Romanian-French film Metronom, awarded Best Director in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, has returned to the screen in Bucharest to spark conversations about life under the communist regime.
Historian Adrian Cioflâncă, on “Blooded Photos” documentary: “It’s a film about a painful chapter that is still talked about far too little”
Historian Adrian Cioflâncă, Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania, commented the film "Blooded Photos" ("Fotografii însângerate")