Cultural calendar

Cultural calendar By Oana Vasiliu

Mezanin Market April 9-10 & April 15-17, Universul Palace

An invitation to a chill fair featuring local entrepreneurs, gourmet crafts, fantastic fashion and jewellery, natural cosmetics, ceramics and home decor, books, and toys for children.

RAMANENJANA�� April 14-15, National Dance Centre

RAMANENJANA is a performative docu-fiction based on the events that came to define the “dance epidemic” of 1863 in Madagascar, contributing to the overthrow of the political regime that favoured colonialism.

“Faces and Shirts”

Exhibition Until April 30, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant

Visitors of this exhibition can see shirts from the Maramures County Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art collection as well as photographs taken by Gabriel Motica.

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Film Festival April 15 and 21, Elvire Popesco Cinema and Peasant Museum Cinema

One of the most unconventional indie productions of the year – “Red Rocket” directed by Sean Baker, featured at Cannes 2021 – will be screened in the opening #dogpoopgirl is a social satire directed by actor Andrei Hutuleac, highlighting tragic elements of the internet age. Inspired by real facts, the script brings us into the Romanian space of the first online shaming case in the history of the internet. Cast includes Andreea Gramosteanu, Coca Bloos, Paul Chiributa, Tudor Istodor, Cezar Antal.

of the festival. This year's edition will feature “The Outfit,” directed by Graham Moore, a film that was first screened at the 2022 Berlinale Special. This year's festival visuals will celebrate 40 years since “ET the Alien,” a film by Steven Spielberg, was released.

“Doina Levintza style”

Exhibition Until April 28, Arcub

The exhibition includes a selection of theatre and film costumes, podium outfits, clothing creations, and collectibles by Romanian designer Doina Levintza. Each of the seven spaces at Arcub features an exhibition theme dedicated to a segment of the creator's vast activity, linking all the creative areas Doina Levintza has worked in: theatre, film, television, and fashion.

Movie premiere: #dogpoopgirl In cinemas from April 15 Movie premiere:

Occasional spies In cinemas from April 29

Director Oana Giurgiu presents a documentary that tells a lesserknown story of the Second World War, about ordinary people who were recruited by British Intelligence and sent on a mission in German-occupied Eastern Europe to find escape routes for the Allies' war prisoners and organise the resistance. The MI9 office in Cairo decides to recruit agents from among the Zionists who had emigrated from these countries to Palestine before the war. Their mission? Find the prisoners and organise a potential escape. The occasional spies soon find themselves caught up in war, politics, and personal relationships.